Gemma

Life Force

Katherine Frazer

Life Force is a collage made from materials created over the last 10 years, inspired by video games, user interfaces, and scrapbooks. The piece includes personal elements such as a self portrait, along with speculative ones, equating them as equal parts of a personal lore.

Commissioned by Gemma

Eye Exercise (Miss America)

Carrie Chen

Carrie Chen’s young avatar rolls her eyes while daydreaming about being a glamorous beauty queen, framed by motivational text that reads: Persistence leads to success. Attitude is everything.

This 3D animation is the latest artwork from her Eye Exercise portrait series—a playful satire on institutional wellness juxtaposed with idyllic fantasies.

Commissioned by Gemma

YES** Color Recall

LoVid

YES** Color Recall captures the essence of an upstate New York snowfall in multisensory, vibrant colors. The piece combines digital landscape photography with dense patterns from analog and algorithmically-generated visuals.

Digital Video (2023)

Commissioned by Gemma

ASANTEE

Serwah Attafuah

Yaa Asantewaa, who was part of the British-Ashanti conflict in the 1800s, proudly wears coral, conchas, and dolphin's teeth. She’s surrounded by fish in a liminal space between Ghana and Sydney.

Commissioned by Gemma

Surrealist’s Dream: /Imagine Femme Fatale by Dora Maar

Ivona Tau

Deconstructing the aesthetics of surrealism.

Ivona Tau gathered a dataset of surrealist images from Man Ray, Hans Bellmer, and Lee Miller, as well as AI-generated versions of Dora Maar’s photography, to create unique monochrome outputs.

GAN and AI video (2023)

Commissioned by Gemma

Les Fleurs de CV

Anna Condo

Anna Condo was gifted this bouquet of Chrysanthemums in spring 2023, and photographed them shortly before they faded. The artist’s ongoing series of works representing flowers—whether through film, digital photography, or AI—celebrates their symbolism, power, color, shape, and movement.

Commissioned by Gemma

Absorption

Ikaro Cavalcante (occulted)

In this new digital artwork, Ikaro Cavalcante (occulted) uses vibrant colors and abstracted layers of blurred, scratching effects to obscure renderings of a corpse flower.

3840 x 2160 pixels .png 2023

Commissioned by Gemma

Zoom Painting 2.14.23

Addie Wagenknecht

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Commissioned by Gemma

Flowers For Gemma

Petra Cortright

Digital Video 1 minute 30 seconds 2023

Commissioned by Gemma