DeCiphers by Irene Mamiye- SOLD OUT
We are delighted to introduce Irene Mamiye’s DeCiphers as our next project! Irene is a world-renowned New York based artist who pushes the boundaries of photography, sculpture, video, and new media. Since 2010, much of her practice has focused on questions of authorship and ownership of online imagery. Pulling jpegs and screenshots from the internet and social media, she utilizes digital tools such as Photoshop, Unity, and Cinema 4D to reimagine these works through the lens of today’s technology, reframing the concept of photographic fidelity.
Her Ciphers series began by archiving images of modernist artists’ work—Barnett Newman, Josef Albers, Rauschenberg, Ellsworth Kelley-- as depicted on the internet through a series of screenshots and jpgs. She pulls shapes and images from these works and uses software to layer and manipulate them, reimagining what the artists themselves may have done if they had access to today’s technology. She then brings these compositions into the physical world via plexiglass extrusions, using layering and etching to imitate filters, lens aberrations, and jpeg artifacts in a tangible medium. In this way she has always explored the concept of 1-of-1-of-x.
In a continuation of this practice, we are partnering with Irene to bring Ciphers on-chain as DeCiphers, an evolution of the series through the lens of generative art. This collection of 1000 NFTs will continue the conversation of authorship that Irene has explored through her body of work over the past decade, illuminating the changing relationship between artistic process and output.
Ciphers Gallery
Works from Irene Mamiye's Ciphers series
Irene Mamiye
Irene Mamiye is a New York-based artist whose work incorporates photography, video, and digital imaging techniques. With light, color and movement, Mamiye blurs the distinctions between physical and virtual reality. Influenced by her own personal history and artists as diverse as Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Gerhard Richter, Mamiye employs intricate and labor-intensive processes to challenge what is expected of the photographic medium. Culling photographs from social media, Mamiye transforms the plenitude of public images into richly layered works that hint at a life lived between screens. With a playful yet mordant humor, Mamiye creates pieces packed with art historical depth and pop cultural abundance.
Mamiye’s extensive body of work, including digital images, videos, and furniture designs, has been widely exhibited across the United States, including in the Aperture Foundation’s Photography is Magic, curated by Charlotte Cotton, and in the landmark show The Edge of Vision (2009). Mamiye’s work was part of the Museum of Art and Design’s Multiple Exposures: Jewelry and Photography (2014), and exhibited at SCOPE Art Fair, SELECT Fair (NYC), and Art Hamptons. Her work has been featured in the following publications: Architectural Digest, Interior Design Magazine, Vanity Fair, People Magazine, Elle Décor and InStyle.
Irene Mamiye was born in Marseille, France and immigrated to the U.S as an adolescent. She holds a BA in Photography and Global Studies from Gallatin New York University and an MFA in Lens Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York.
Irene Mamiye
Irene Mamiye is a New York-based artist whose work incorporates photography, video, and digital imaging techniques. With light, color and movement, Mamiye blurs the distinctions between physical and virtual reality. Influenced by her own personal history and artists as diverse as Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Gerhard Richter, Mamiye employs intricate and labor-intensive processes to challenge what is expected of the photographic medium. Culling photographs from social media, Mamiye transforms the plenitude of public images into richly layered works that hint at a life lived between screens. With a playful yet mordant humor, Mamiye creates pieces packed with art historical depth and pop cultural abundance.
Mamiye’s extensive body of work, including digital images, videos, and furniture designs, has been widely exhibited across the United States, including in the Aperture Foundation’s Photography is Magic, curated by Charlotte Cotton, and in the landmark show The Edge of Vision (2009). Mamiye’s work was part of the Museum of Art and Design’s Multiple Exposures: Jewelry and Photography (2014), and exhibited at SCOPE Art Fair, SELECT Fair (NYC), and Art Hamptons. Her work has been featured in the following publications: Architectural Digest, Interior Design Magazine, Vanity Fair, People Magazine, Elle Décor and InStyle.
Irene Mamiye was born in Marseille, France and immigrated to the U.S as an adolescent. She holds a BA in Photography and Global Studies from Gallatin New York University and an MFA in Lens Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York.
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EDUCATION
2014 MFA, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2010 BA, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University, New York, NY
2002 International Center of Photography, New York, NY
1998 Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
RESIDENCIES
2018 MORPHOS Digital Dome Artist-in-Residence, Denver Arts + Technology Advancement, Fort Collins, CO
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Irene Mamiye: Repost, Alter gallery, shanghai, china
2018 Irene Mamiye: Homage, Lanoue Gallery, Boston, MA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018
Curated by Markus Linnenbrink, Cindy Rucker Gallery, New York, NY
2018
Text Messages, Lanoue Gallery, Boston, MA
2016
CUBE: The American Art Fair, curated by Gregoire Vogelsang, Brussels, Belgium
Photography is Magic, curated by Charlotte Cotton, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY
Art Hamptons, Gallery 88, Bridgehampton, NY
Affordable Art Fair, Asterisk Projects, New York, NY
2015
All You Can Be: Explorations of the Self and Its Mutations, Gallatin Galleries, New York
University, New York, NY
SCOPE, Asterisk Projects, Miami Beach, FL
SELECT, Center548, New York, NY
2014
Multiple Exposures: Jewelry and Photography, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
SVA 2014 MFA Thesis Exhibition, SVA Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY
SELECT, Miami Beach, FL
Affordable Art Fair, Hamburg Kennedy Photographs, New York, NY
Houston Fine Art Fair, NRG Center, Houston, TX
Digital Graffiti Festival, Alys Beach, FL; finalist
2013
The Edge of Vision: Abstraction in Contemporary Photography, Aperture Foundation New York, NY (traveling)
Louisiana Museum of Art and Science, Baton Rouge, LA Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences, Charleston, WV Lewis and Clark College, Hoffman Gallery, Portland, OR Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR
Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL
Ebb and Flow, Cheryl Hazan Contemporary Art, New York, NY
2010
Corporate Exhibition, Sumitomo Corporation of America Headquarters, Houston, TX
Eco-Inspired, Gallatin Building, New York University, New York, NY 2009 Auction, Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY
New Works: Irene Mamiye, curated by Eleanor Cayre, New York, NY
Recent Works, HW Gallery, Naples, FL
2008
Art Basel, The Station, Miami Beach, FL
2007
NYU MA Exhibition, curated by Gerald Pryor, Chinese Photographer’s Association, Beijing Film Academy, China
Art in Media, New York University, New York, NY
Abstract, Eleanor Cayre Art Gallery, Long Beach, NJ
Out of the Blue and Yellow: Art in Media Works Exhibition, Barney Building, New York University, New York, NY
Encore: Celebration of the Arts, The Herbert and Evelyn Axelrod Performing Arts Center, Ocean, NJ
2001
Here is New York: Images from the Frontline of History: A Democracy of Photographs, Museum at the New York Historical Society, New York, NY
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
CBS Television
Calvin Klein, New York, NY
Cassa Hotels/MMC Design Group, New York, NY Consolidated Design Studios, New York, NY Federated Department Stores, New York, NY
F-Factor, New York, NY
Gallatin School of Study, NYU, New York, NY
National September 11 Memorial and Museum, New York, NY SaraMax Apparel Group, New York, NY
Sephardic Community Center, Brooklyn, NY
Sumitomo Corporation of America Headquarters, Houston, TX Thor Equity, New York, NY
Wynn Hotels, Macau, Hong Kong