Petra Cortright I soft stone under heaven exceeded trial period

For her third solo exhibition with Brigade, Petra Cortright (b. 1986, US) presents a new series of digital paintings on canvas. Drawing from her vast archive of found imagery, sourced from the ever-expanding terrain of the internet, Cortright employs the harvested material as her paint - each mark is meticulously added, overlaid, and folded into the final compositions. 

soft stone under heaven exceeded trial period reveals a series of new landscape paintings: mountain ranges dissolving into seascapes, flowers clinging to steep rocky hillsides, cloud banks unrolling toward infinite horizons. These works are grounded in the formal languages of painting while imbued with the aesthetics of the screen. 

While Cortright's practice carries the sensibility of Impressionism, her medium is resolutely of the present - pixels, code and the subtle glitches of consumer software. Often referred to as a "digital Monet," Cortright pursues beauty with clarity and conviction, inviting the viewer into a place where the natural and artificial can coexist. 

Petra Cortright studied Fine Arts at Parsons School of Design, The New School, New York (2008). Her work has been exhibited within significant public institutions such as Walker Art Center, Hammer Museum, and Whitechapel Gallery, and is included in the permanent collections of MoMA (New York), Pérez Art Museum (Miami), LACMA (Los Angeles), Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), Moderna Museet (Stockholm), Ny Carlsbergsfondet, and many others.