Petra Cortright is an important artist in post-internet art, known for redefining the boundaries between traditional painting and digital media. Her practice merges the aesthetics of consumer software, online detritus, and art historical references, creating works that hover between the physical and virtual realms.

Cortright came to prominence through her early webcam videos on YouTube, and has since built an influential body of work that encompasses video, digital painting, sculpture, and virtual environments..

SP-9750 Driver "submissive bondage” SYNERGETICS, INC._ is a sweeping digital painting printed on anodized aluminum, where Cortright’s signature layering of abstract marks, brushstroke simulations, and digital residues comes alive with vibrant intensity. The title, cryptic and industrial, juxtaposes themes of control, submission, and artificiality, pointing to the tensions embedded in our relationship with technology and image making. Similarly to Elaine Sturtevant aproche in the 60’s around authorship and copyright. Like a contemporary Rorschach, the work invites interpretation while simultaneously evading it, evoking both floral patterns and glitch aesthetics in a language uniquely her own.

Petra Cortright’s work is held in major public and private collections worldwide, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Hammer Museum, Kunsthaus Zürich, and the Zabludowicz Collection. Her digital-native practice has also been exhibited at institutions such as MoMA PS1, The New Museum, Walker Art Center, and UCCA Beijing, affirming her pivotal role in shaping the discourse around contemporary digital art.

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