Abstract Painting Can Not Die Only Submit: a Conversation with Siebren Versteeg

New York-based digital artist Siebren Versteeg will address his work in relation to new technologies and contemporary art. From the origins of the web to Web 2.0, to NFTs and blockchain, Versteeg's practice continues to inspect and respond to new digital media forms that consistently remodel culture and in turn, his work. Versteeg will discuss his piece in Stove Works’s current exhibition I AM NOT A CARTOON and how his current practice continues to be situated in algorithmic computation, painterly abstraction, and constructed identities.

Versteeg was born in 1971 in New Haven, CT. He received his MFA from The University of Illinois at Chicago. He has exhibited nationally and internationally. Recent exhibitions include Bitforms, New York, NY; Minnesota Street Projects, San Francisco, CA; Art Vault, Santa Fe, NM; Sharjah Art Foundation, Dubai, United Arab Emirates; and Andrew Racfacz, Chicago, IL. His work is included in several collections such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Marguilies Collection at the WAREhOUSE, Miami; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC.; Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; and the Guggenheim, New York, NY.

I.T.M. (with familiar), 2015, Internet connected computer program, looping excerpt from Bill Viola's "I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like", 2 Laptop computers, LCD screen, tape, bike helmet, boot, gallery detritus