A signed, authentic and unique digital artwork. You will own the digital creation verified through the blockchain.

Ownership of digital asset

The full non-commercial right to this digital artwork. Upon purchase, this artwork will be transferred to your digital XVERSO wallet (provided by us to you).

Full non-commercial right

The right to download the full-sized creation to display or even  print for non-commercial use.

Downloadable full-size creation

Every purchaser will not only obtain the digital artwork but also will receive social impact investor status that will include future benefits such as invitations to special events and voting rights for future benefit drops.

XVERSO Social Impact

Supporters will obtain

<ul><li>Ownership of Digital Assets</li><li>Each work is an Edition of 2, Edition 1/2 includes an artist signed print on canvas</li><li>VIP Status</li><li>Special private invitation to Albert's next gallery show.</li></ul>

We are excited to continue our series of exclusive works by Asian American artists curated&nbsp;by our curator Kimi Kitada. Conceptual Artist Albert [Abdul-Barr] Wang who has been an artist-in-residence at the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://sva.edu/">School for Visual Arts</a>, utilizes AI and his background in painting to explore unique landscapes portraying the impact of climate change while referencing art history such as traditional Chinese brush paintings. Utilizing generative AI can lead to endless results, and Albert’s artworks can take years until he is satisfied with the outcome of the work.&nbsp; His technique creates cinematic effects of beauty while showing a dystopian world of reality.

Collection by Artist Albert [Abdul Barr] Wang

Out of context: Generative landscapes facing climate change

Each work is an Edition of 2, Edition 1/2 includes an artist signed print

Special private invitation to Skye’s next gallery show in Los Angeles

What collectors will obtain

XVERSO is excited to present a series of exclusive works by Asian American artists selected by Kimi Kitada, who is an independent curator and arts educator currently at the <a href="https://charlottestreet.org/about/our-people/kimi-kitada" target="_blank" style="color:#655fff;">Charlotte Street Foundation</a> in Kansas City, Missouri. With her first NFT drop on XVERSO, we are excited to present contemporary artist Sumire Skye Taniai who received her BFA in painting from the <a href="https://visualstudies.missouri.edu/art" target="_blank" style="color:#655fff;">University of Missouri</a> in 2016 and received an MFA from the <a href="https://www.saic.edu" target="_blank" style="color:#655fff;">School of the Art Institute of Chicago</a>. Skye’s works are exhibited globally and are related to the concept of Asian identity in the US in the context of race, gender and the duality between Western and Eastern cultural beliefs.

Collection by Artist Sumire 'Skye' Taniai

Out of Context: Re-framing Asian-American Contemporary Art

Voting right to determine the next benefit drop

We are deeply moved by the senseless murder of 22 year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini. Mahsa was killed by the Iranian morality police on September 16, 2022, in Iran, for not complying with the country’s strict Hijab laws. Her death has ignited a massive global protest movement organized by women, especially young women, in Iran. In honor of Women, Life, Freedom - the rallying cry expression for the protests in Iran and to support the human rights organization <a href="https://united4iran.org" target="_blank" style="color:#655fff;">United for Iran</a>, we have created this special benefit drop. This special artwork with the face of a fierce Iranian woman is based on an illustration by an anonymous Iranian artist. This limited edition drop will be available for a total of 1,001 NFTs including 50 free airdrops for our selected VIP community members. You can purchase the NFT for a minimum of USD 20 although higher donations are encouraged. By purchasing this special edition NFT, you will become an active supporter of the women’s rights movement in Iran and globally. You will also obtain XVERSO’s Social Impact badge which will give you special access to our events and voting rights for our future benefit drops.

Honoring Mahsa Amini and supporting the brave women in Iran

Woman, Life, Freedom

Signed and printed version for select artworks

We are thrilled to announce our auction with artists and female activists Michele Pred and Autumn Breon. The artists will share their perspectives on feminism, equal rights, and gender equality in conversation with collector Dwight Smith. We are auctioning 8 unique NFTs - part of the sales will be donated to the initiative <a href="https://www.theartofequalpay.com" target="_blank" style="color:#655fff;">The Art of Equal Pay</a> to confront and combat pay gaps for visual artists. Another part will benefit refugees in the <a href="https://www.unrwa.org/where-we-work/jordan/jabal-el-hussein-camp" target="_blank" style="color:#655fff;">Jabal El-Hussein Camp</a> in Jordan.

Live with artists Autumn Breon and Michele Pred

Image Equality: The Art of Equal Pay

We are excited to showcase our first drop from curator and artist Cesar Lopez. Born in 1991 in Guatemala, Cesar lives and works in Kansas City and received his BFA from the <a href="https://kcai.edu" target="_blank" style="color:#655fff;">Kansas City Arts Institute</a> in 2019. At a young age, his family immigrated to the United States. The trauma of “not belonging” created the basis for his art practice. Merging formal elements of painting and personal history, Cesar creates a fictional space the “3rd space” - a space with abstract and colorful elements based on fictitious flags mixed with colorful elements. Cesar will be live with us with Janine Yancey, founder of <a href="https://emtrain.com" target="_blank" style="color:#655fff;">Emtrain</a>. Janine is a pioneer and visionary in healthy workplace culture, including online education in diversity and inclusion.

Live with Artist Cesar Lopez and Janine Yancey

The Art of Belonging: Identity Through Art and Soccer

We are excited to announce our collaboration with spoken-word and self-taught visual artist Halim Flowers. Born into poverty in Washington DC, Halim discovered drug dealing as a way out of poverty and dependency of those who let him down. As a teenager, at the age of 15, he was incarcerated as an accomplice to an intended crime and received a double-life sentence as a juvenile for 22 years in prison. In prison, he discovered new ways of expression in the visual arts and spoken word. Often he uses iconography and portraiture to depict perceptions of wealth and commercial success contrasted against images of fear, poverty, and oppression. Halim has been featured in various group and solo exhibitions including at <a href="https://www.moma.org/artists/132544" target="_blank" style="color:#655fff;">MOMA PS1</a> and is represented by <a href="https://www.dtrmodern.com" target="_blank" style="color:#655fff;">DTR Modern Gallery</a> and <a href="https://stellajonesgallery.com" target="_blank" style="color:#655fff;">Stella Jones Gallery</a>.

Live with artist Halim Flowers

The Love Connection

Special private collector event at Jerome’s studio in NY

Jerome Lagarrigue is an award-winning artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Originally from Paris, he moved to the United States in 1992, and graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design. Lagarrigue’s masterful and evocative paintings have been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the world. His work is in the permanent collection of major institutions including the Brooklyn Museum of Art. In 2017, Jerome’s solo exhibition in London, The Tipping Point, which included paintings depicting fictional riot zones was critically acclaimed. Equally sought after in the worlds fine art and popular culture, in 2010, Lagarrigue was one of a hundred artists to have been personally selected by Georges Lucas to participate on an exclusive project commemorating the original Star Wars Trilogy. Georges Lucas also subsequently purchased the original art for his personal collection. In 1998, the documentary Jerome Lagarrigue: portrait of an artist, directed by Richard Mothes and Anne-Laurence Bizeau, was selected for the sixth International Documentary Competition at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.

XVERSO is excited to present
the world-premier
of Jerome’s first NFTs.

We are excited to auction the world premiere of 3 unique NFTs by award-winning painter Jerome Lagarrigue. These unique digital images are Jerome’s first NFTs. They were created from original paintings from his series The Tipping Point presented in his solo exhibition at <a href="https://www.instagram.com/lazinc" target="_blank" style="color:#655fff;">Lazarides Gallery</a> in London in 2017. Paintings from The Tipping Point series are now in several major art collections around the world including the permanent collection of <a href="https://www.brooklynmuseum.org" target="_blank" style="color:#655fff;">The Brooklyn Museum of Art.</a>

Live with artist Jerome Lagarrigue

The Art of Rebellion

We are excited to present our world premier of XVERSO with Cyborg artist, Lans King, the first human artist who connected himself to the blockchain via a capsule in his hand. In this auction, we will auction 3 unique NFT Capsules composed of layers of code and animation that recall the style of the artist's physical artworks of his ongoing project The Hyperreality Show. Hyperreality is the inability to distinguish between the real and a simulation of the real. The NFT will be in in MP4 format, but within the videos you find traditional art studies such as studies on nudes, landscapes and flowers.