Artists

Steve Pikelny

A screenshot of a virtual world, showing the interior of a church with a cross-shaped window opening onto the blue sky. The walls are hung with photographs of religious pamphlets

Collections

The Church of Subway Jesus Pamphlets

Steve Pikleny built a church in the metaverse Voxels to showcase his collection of real-world religious ephemera.

A digital image that looks like a banknote, with guilloche patterns, borders, a denomination of 1, and a serial number, but is too abstract and empty to fully resemble an actual bill.

Criticism

Scam Artist

Is crypto a scam? Is art a scam? Steve Pikelny’s winking answer to both questions is yes, and his work explores what happens when the art and the crypto are one and the same.

Essays produced in a writing workshop hosted by Outland and Art Blocks offer new perspectives on art, code, and web3. The Generative Art Issue

A softly blurred and glowing digital image evoking braided threads, folding over each other in swirling patterns