In collaboration with renowned interior designer Michael Braverman, HLK Art Group sourced artwork for the home of a young family living on the Upper East Side. Given the couple’s background in cutting-edge technologies, crypto-currency, and innovation, with HLK’s resources and access to rising stars in the art world, the client acquired a stunning work by emerging artist Sarah Meyohas, whose creative practice addresses stocks, automation, crypto-currency, AI, and VR/AR. The piece also came with a dedicated NFT. Since the couple acquired the work, the artist has received critical acclaim and recognition in the art world and has experienced a robust secondary market.
About the artist:
Sarah Meyohas (b. 1991, New York) is a conceptual artist and pioneer in the field of crypto art, whose practice considers the nature and capabilities of emerging technologies in contemporary society. In 2015, Meyohas created Bitchcoin, a cryptocurrency backed by her physical artwork. Predating the launch of Ethereum, Bitchcoin is the first tokenization of art on a blockchain, effectively a “proto-NFT.” Using the familiar emblems of biological life, Meyohas investigates the complex operations that increasingly govern our world: soaring birds, created using augmented-reality software, flock in unison with the frenetic variations of the stock market; rose petals, aggregately identical but individually unique, comprise the dataset for their AI-created equivalents; Bitchcoin, a cryptocurrency backed by physical artworks, questions the speculative value of cryptocurrency and the ineffable value of art. Meyohas creates an intelligible visual language to articulate the systems and technologies that increasingly influence our world.