UNDRGRND DIGS 007
JANUARY 10TH, 2022
5 Artists From the UNDRGRND Collection
UNDRGRND DIGS is a periodical feature showcasing artists that the UNDRGRND curators dig. We sift through the social media and NFT platforms to find the best artists waiting to be discovered. UNDRGRND believes in the artists we feature and we will purchase NFTs from each artist featured. Purchases will be airdropped to reward UNDRGRND community members.
Henrymuur, a Russian artist, creates both digital and traditional paintings. A good portion of her work seems to be deeply personal yet it reaches us like she was talking about us. It is of deep beauty mixed with pain. The darkness in her work is predominant and feels alive. In Silence and Blind Butterfly you feel like you could just make out what’s hiding in the dark if your senses were not impaired. In Liberation from Madness and depersonalization, the darkness looks appears to feed on the character. She captures our doubts and fears perfectly in A Sip. Even in the lighter work like The Green Path of Time you can feel the melancholy but this time with a road to redemption. From strong emotions oftentimes great works are born, and it is especially true here.
Suryo Prakadewa, or better known as uyo66, is an artist creating 1930’s style paintings and animations. Inspired by early versions of Felix The Cat and Mickey Mouse, he adds a fun and devilish twist to it. The black and white pieces are a great homage to that time period, but it’s in the color piece that the art shines. The mix of bright colors with a matte finish brings a unique and distinct style. All of his work tells a story from childhood vignettes to recreations of classic favourites to social critique. By staying constant with his style he has created a distinct and recognizable world that opens the door for so many possibilities. Art can be fun while also having more than one layer to it, and here it is done beautifully.
Cem Hasimi is an award-winning Senior Art Director in the advertising industry working out of London. When he’s not working, he is creating some amazing NFTs. Extremely prolific, he's designed various series using different styles, but it’s in his latest works that he shines the most. Mixing loop animation with neon-style colors, he creates quirky and sometimes complex animations. The flow is perfect and you can easily lose yourself looking at them. Most are fun in nature like the Aliens series, but mostly they have a deeper meaning to them. The In my head series encompasses perfectly what goes through our minds while we can’t sleep. Others, like Time is running and I'm not listening to you... are a great reflection of the way we so often choose to live our lives.
Szkandal creations are all characters of their own. Straight out of a science fiction movie, you can create your own stories for each of them. No matter if it’s a robot that looks like a bounty hunter, an evolving spaceship, twins that feel like world devourers, or godlike aliens, they all feel alive! With just the perfect hint of lightness to his work, we want to dive right in, even maybe in a more serious themed piece like Knives Out. The color scheme is no stranger to it. The purple, blue and pink tones give the works a unique and fun feel. Szkandal is currently working on a new project that should be released soon. From hints I could find digging around, it seems to be part of the same world or at the very least in a world similar to it and I could not be happier. Can’t wait to see where this space journey will bring us next.
COMMUNITY DIGS: Pedro Heck
UNDRGRND community members nominate their favorite undiscovered artists to be featured in weekly DIGS. UNDRGRND empowers its community to dig for bold, innovative, under valued NFT artists.
Pedro Heck is a 21-year-old Brazilian artist whose work oft-portrays nature, history and the beautiful science behind them.
The unique style that he’s developed originated in his high school days. During classes, he easily lost focus, particularly in subjects that held little interest to him. He discovered early on that holding a pencil made him less anxious, and the result was a healthy dose of doodling during classes. One day he forgot to bring his notebook to school, and found himself absently sketching on his desk, a desk already replete with other students’ scientific annotations. Heck quickly embraced this new style and realized it was something he could replicate in his sketchbook, except now without the randomness of those school desks, and rather the precision of his research. Over time Pedro refined the approach and began including historical formulas, notations and scientific diagrams that were directly related to the figure being portrayed. It was around this time Heck began to produce his classically styled digital art, and the rest is both literal history and history in the making. - Siferdub