Online QQL: Parametric Expression Mar 30 – Apr 22, 2023 Presentation DetailsQQL: Parametric ExpressionMar 30 – Apr 22, 2023Featuring works by:Tara DonovanDRIFTLoie HollowellWilliam MapanClaire SilverGrant YunAuction DetailsOpens: April 10, 2023Closes: April 18, 2023 (opens in a new window) Click here to learn more Read More Last year, the generative artist, creative coder, and painter Tyler Hobbs, known for his celebrated Fidenza NFT series, unveiled the QQL project, which he developed in collaboration with fellow artist Dandelion Wist. With QQL, Hobbs has invited collectors to become co-creators of generative art NFTs in an innovative and collaborative process that harnesses the power of unpredictability and happenstance in Web3. The project’s dedicated website, accessible at (opens in a new window) qql.art, serves as a space for intuitive play where visitors can experiment with generating NFTs through Hobbs’ algorithm, using various bespoke tools that encourage interplay between elements of control.Using a combination of traditional painting techniques and robotic tools, Hobbs has created large-scale paintings based on his own experimentations with the QQL algorithm. These works are on view in QQL: Analogs, Pace’s first exhibition dedicated to an individual artist’s Web3 project, at the gallery’s 508 West 25th Street space in New York through April 29. Hobbs’ new paintings reflect the vast formal possibilities of the QQL algorithm, featuring visual effects, color palettes, forms, and moods across a wide spectrum.Complementing Hobbs’ in-person presentation with Pace in New York, this focused online exhibition, titled QQL: Parametric Expression, brings together new QQL NFTs produced by three artists within the gallery’s program—Tara Donovan, DRIFT, and Loie Hollowell—along with William Mapan, Claire Silver, and Grant Yun, artists who have emerged as leading voices within Web3. The six NFTs on view speak to the limber nature of QQL, with each work highlighting the formal and conceptual concerns of its creator’s practice. Despite their shared algorithmic origins, these new QQL NFTs reflect the unique voices and perspectives of the artists who made them.In conjunction with this online presentation, all six NFTs will be auctioned by Pace Verso. For more information, visit (opens in a new window) https://verso.pacegallery.com.Exploration was a key ingredient in the artists’ processes for their QQL NFTs. Silver describes QQL as “naturally collaborative on several levels,” and she selected her QQL for this exhibition from a pool of more than 500 of her favorite outputs. The work she ultimately chose to present in QQL: Parametric Expression depicts a semi-abstracted wave cresting near the center of the composition.“Because it looks like bits of data—and because it looks like an actual wave—it kind of reminded me of the inevitability of how I see AI’s movement into the mainstream consciousness,” Silver says of her QQL NFT. “It’s like the coming wave, and it’s powerful but it’s also beautiful.”Yun, whose work with vectors has been influenced by Minimalism, said that he “wanted to highlight his style from a structural standpoint and also a color standpoint” with his QQL NFT. “I wanted to really hone in on my approach and vision as an artist through the lens of QQL.”Similarly, Mapan was interested in answering the question, “How can I express myself through someone else’s algorithm?”“I started to look for something personal for me in the algorithm, and I knew there must be something in there,” Mapan says of his process with QQL. “So, I began to really dig into the tool, and that’s how I decided that I’d like to have something very subtle, very delicate, and almost invisible.”The expansive, nearly limitless parameters of QQL make the algorithm a hugely idiosyncratic tool in the Web3 landscape. With QQL, Hobbs hands almost all creative control to users, a move that Mapan calls a “leap of faith.” Since its launch, QQL has seen 21.5 million outputs from around the world.“I think when people discover QQL—even those who are not attuned to Web3 or NFTs at all—they’ll find something that’s beautiful in it,” Yun says.“I think it’s similar to AI in that it’s about accessibility,” Silver says of QQL’s impact. “I find that very fresh and very exciting. Creative expression, at least in the visual arts, has been relatively gated by skill for a very long time—for millennia. I hope that with time more people will become open to trying these new things, and that’s probably a net good for humanity.” Read More Tyler Hobbs with Grant Yun, QQL #201, 2023, non-fungible token Learn More Grant YunOriginally from San Jose, California, Grant Yun is a digitally native artist currently based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Yun is well-known for his Neo-Precisionist style, incorporating minimalist aesthetics in his depictions of landscapes, architecture, and interior design. The artist’s style pays homage to painters of the early 1900s yet stands out as distinctly modern and contemporary. As he continues to progress as an artist, Yun hopes to contribute to the evolution of digital and blockchain art. Close modal Tyler Hobbs with Grant Yun QQL #201 2023 non-fungible token How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back Tyler Hobbs with studio DRIFT, QQL #202, 2023, non-fungible token Learn More DRIFTDutch artists Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta founded DRIFT in 2007. With a multi-disciplinary team of 64, they work on experiential sculptures, installations and performances.DRIFT manifests the phenomena and hidden properties of nature with the use of technology in order to learn from the Earth’s underlying mechanisms and to re- establish our connection to it.With both depth and simplicity, DRIFT’s works of art illuminate parallels between man-made and natural structures through deconstructive, interactive, and innovative processes. The artists raise fundamental questions about what life is and explore a positive scenario for the future. Close modal Tyler Hobbs with studio DRIFT QQL #202 2023 non-fungible token Auction How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back Tyler Hobbs with Loie Hollowell, QQL #203, 2023, non-fungible token Learn More Loie HollowellKnown for paintings and drawings that explore the bodily landscape, Loie Hollowell’s practice exists in the liminal space between abstraction and figuration, otherworldly and corporeal.Originating in autobiography, her work explores themes of sexuality, pregnancy and birth. Hollowell’s geometric compositions use symbolic shapes such as the mandorla, ogee, and lingam to build her distinctive visual lexicon. In referencing her own personal experiences, Hollowell’s paintings are at once personal and universal in their fierce vulnerability. Her use of symmetry – often anchoring her compositions in a central, singular axis – relates her paintings to her own body as well as the natural world. Close modal Tyler Hobbs with Loie Hollowell QQL #203 2023 non-fungible token Auction How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back Tyler Hobbs with Claire Silver, QQL #204, 2023, non-fungible token Learn More Claire SilverClaire Silver is an anonymous AI-Collaborative artist and early Cryptopunk. Her work is an ongoing visual conversation with AI, exploring themes of trauma, innocence, and divinity in the hero's journey. Through her practice, Silver examines how our view of these subjects will change in an increasingly transhumanist future. Silver’s art is in the permanent collection of Los Angeles County Museum and has been exhibited in galleries, museums, and festivals worldwide. Silver has been featured in WIRED, The New York Times, and countless podcasts, and her work has sold at Sotheby's London Contemporary Day Auction and digitally on SuperRare. She is repped by WME, Beverly Hills. Close modal Tyler Hobbs with Claire Silver QQL #204 2023 non-fungible token How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back Tyler Hobbs with Tara Donovan, QQL #205, 2023, non-fungible token Learn More Tara DonovanFor over twenty years, Tara Donovan has created large-scale installations, sculptures and drawings that utilize everyday objects to explore the transformative effects of accumulation and aggregation.Known for her commitment to process, she has earned acclaim for her ability to exploit the inherent physical characteristics of an object in order to transform it into works that generate unique perceptual phenomena and atmospheric effects. By identifying and exploiting the usually overlooked physical properties of modest, mass-produced goods, Donovan creates ethereal works that challenge our perceptual habits and preconceptions. Close modal Tyler Hobbs with Tara Donovan QQL #205 2023 non-fungible token How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back Tyler Hobbs with William Mapan, QQL #206, 2023, non-fungible token Learn More William MapanWilliam Mapan is an artist, coder, and teacher based in France. Best known for his Dragons (2021) and Anticyclone (2022) series, the artist has dedicated his practice to bridging worlds through color, texture, and composition, creating the unexpected. Bringing together various elements and influences in his art, Mapan cultivates a sense of unity and connection that is palpable to the viewer. A central tenet of his practice is an attempt to inject a sense of humanness into the algorithms that drive his generative art. Through his use of organic forms and rich textures, Mapan seeks to close the gap between the artificial and the human, producing works that are both technically impressive and emotionally resonant. Close modal Tyler Hobbs with William Mapan QQL #206 2023 non-fungible token How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back To learn more or inquire about the works in this exhibition, email verso@pacegallery.com. Read More Journal View All Exhibitions Emergent Patterns Drop-in family workshop on the occasion of Yto Barrada: Bite the Hand Apr 23, 2024 Content All the World in a Painting Apr 13, 2024 News Announcing Representation of The Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative Apr 12, 2024 Content Painting as Process and Performance Apr 08, 2024 Past, QQL: Parametric Expression, Mar 30, 2023