Raina Marie is a Director at Pace Gallery, serving as an artist liaison to Pace’s interdisciplinary artists, such as teamLab, Drift, Rafael Lozanna- Hemmer, and others. Additionally, she is part of the Pace Verso team-- the gallery's Web3 hub. For the past ten years at Pace, she has been developing best practices for exhibiting analog and digital artworks, as well as working on sales strategies, which directly contributed to increased sales of digital artworks and aided in expanding Pace’s program of exhibiting interdisciplinary art collectives. She was part of the founding team who created and launched Superblue, a new enterprise dedicated to producing and exhibiting large-scale, immersive art installations for ticketed experiences.
Raina Marie is also a curator, working with both traditional art and multimedia and digital artworks. She has curated shows in physical and digital spaces, producing shows in AR, VR, and the metaverse. She is also a writer and speaks globally about the art market, art history, digital art, and Web3, and is a published writer. She has given lectures at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY), Christie's Education (NY), Hunter College (NY), and The Australian Registrar Conference (AUS). She also participates on panels, most notably at South by Southwest (March 2022), SEDG (November 2021), Ars Electronica (September 2020), The Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) (November 2021), as well as being a frequent speaker on Clubhouse and Twitterspace. Raina Marie has been published in Sculpture Magazine, Whitehot Magazine, the Australian Registrar Journal, and online blogs. With 15+ years of experience in the fine art industry and a Master in Art History, Raina Marie is an authority in the pioneering fields of experiential, time-based art, software-based art, and in Web3.
#Retouched explores the disparate meanings of touch and the act of something being retouched. Touching a person’s body can be comforting, empathetic and a form of connection; however, it can also be unwelcoming, forceful, and demeaning. Retouching is a technique that makes alterations to an image, eliminating an imperfection and implying that an improvement has been made. We have the ability to change ourselves and our environments in the physical and digital spaces, but who are we ameliorating for? Using AI powered or synthetic intelligence to use different techniques such as clone stamping, zoom quilting, liquifying, photo compositing, and digital matte painting, the artworks use a hybridization of recognizable signs, pop culture symbols, and androgynous figures that shift between the familiar and uncanny, the primordial and the
futurist, nostalgia and hope.
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#Retouched was organized in partnership with CADAF.
What will future generations remember, recall, and excavate from the world today? These artists convey the zeitgeist of the 21st century: an unprecedented crossroads of the unknowable singularity.