Travis LeRoy Southworth
Travis LeRoy Southworth (b. 1979, Honolulu, Hawaii) is a visual artist working in New York City. Solo and two person shows include Undercurrent (Brooklyn), Mixed Greens Gallery (NYC), Dock Gallery (Basel) and AHN/VHS (Philadelphia). Recent group exhibitions are Ortega y Gasset (Brooklyn), Index Art Center (Newark), Trestle Gallery, (Brooklyn), Martha Otero Gallery (Los Angeles), Thomas Robertello Gallery (Chicago), The Drawing Center (NYC) and The Bronx Museum of the Arts. His work has been written about in the New York Times, The Museum of Contemporary Digital Art, Basler Zeitung, and Art Slant. Southworth participated in the Artist in the Marketplace (AIM 29) Program at The Bronx Museum of the Arts (2008) and received a BRIC Media Arts Fellowship (2009).
He was awarded a NYFA Fellowship in Photography (2010) and a residency in Switzerland that involved a project with the Large Hadron Collider at CERN (2013). Southworth holds a MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2007) a BFA from the University of Arizona (2004).
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Featured Artworks
Hot Head is part of the series Color, Balance that Travis LeRoy Southworth initiated in 2016. The work delves into the digital traces left when retouching portraits and other fashion photographs. With his work, the artist wishes to bring the invisible back to the forefront, ultimately highlighting the not-so-slim nuance between oneself and its digital rendition. With his work, Travis LeRoy Southworth offers a new genre of portraiture. He removes the original subject and experiments with the numerous layers of retouching that hold his Photoshop files instead. The result is an ethereal portrait made of accentuated colours and elements of imperfections. The title of the picture refers to a specific person, however, only characterised through the label "hot head," referring to comments the artist heard working with advertising professionals while retouching the original photograph.
Hot Head
2016
Still
The Foundry
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MoCDA curates a selection of NFTs from The Edicurial Collection. Founded in March 2021 by traditional arts supporter and long-term NFT enthusiast Elsie, the Collection has grown steadily since its inception, showing its true long-term purpose and exhibiting an open minded approach to what Digital Artworks can be, from NFTs to more traditional Computer Art, Artificial Intelligence and beyond. The Edicurial Collection has quickly become an established name in the Crypto and Digital Art Patronage, and aims more than ever to support Crypto and Digital Art on the Blockchain as a significant artistic genre, reflecting a pivotal moment in art history.
Edicurial Collection
11/10/22
NFT Institute, The Sandbox
21/10/22
Digital Bodies is an online group show curated by Stina Gustafsson, Chloe Diamond, Serena Tabacchi and Marie Chatel featuring works by Cao Fei, Damjanksi, Frenetik Void, Hackatao, Hu Weiyi, Joanne Hastie, Lin Tianmiao, Maurice Benayoun, Miao Xiaochun, Skygolpe, The Fabricant, Travis LeRoy Southworth, and Twistedsister.
“Within the digital realm, the body becomes something we can no longer touch or feel. Often, it stands detached from our actions, forcing us into new ways of associating, observing, and thinking about the body and its relationship to space.
The human body has dominated artistic visions for centuries. With the emergence of new digital instruments comes new ways of exploring what role the body plays in both physical and virtual environments. Fluid boundaries where we alternate between our real and virtual lives imply that our understanding of the body is detached and outdated.
In this exhibition, MoCDA presents artworks that challenge existing notions of the body by exploring the ways in which they are represented across media and how the representation has evolved within a digital sphere. In the first collaboration between the Museum of Contemporary Digital Art and the DSL Collection, presented for CADAF Online 2020, MoCDA seeks to examine the bodily structures that are increasingly challenged and questioned as our daily life is transported, shaped, and augmented by digital technologies.”
(The curators)