Released Oct 29, 2022
A clear play on words inspired by the Hollywood blockbuster, Coyote Ugly, the name of this art collective is meant to reflect the events that occurred during Chapter 1 of this ongoing project. Focused on reviving traditional and cultural stories through a modern and humorous narrative, the five artists behind Peyote Ugly first traveled to Mexico for a one month art residency, where they created a fictional storyline, physical artworks, NFTs and more. Drawing from Mexican culture, the story begins as the artists all enjoy a peyote, or hallucinogenic cactus, and well - things got pretty ugly after that.
Violetta P Jones, Santiago Pani, Daniel Martin, Henrik Uldalen and Ivo Nupoort are the five artists behind this collective. Each originating from various parts of the world, the project aims to focus on each country and bring awareness to cultural and traditional practices.
Launching this Halloween weekend alongside The Crypt Gallery, Peyote Ugly releases Chapter 2 of their quest on Nifty Gateway. The Awakening of the Devil is a fictional narrative based on Dutch folklore and fairy tales. The five artists once again reunited, this time at Art House Holland and collaborated in creating paintings, sculptures, prints, a film, puzzles and handmade physical books as a part of this collection. They also created digital counterparts: 3D sculptures, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and 3D scanning film and photography.
Tying in such a variety of artistic disciplines not only shows the strength of this project, but the capabilities NFTs offer.
Exhibited at The Crypt Gallery in New York City + Los Angeles Make sure to visit us at Dream Hollywood or Dream Downtown this Halloween season to experience the artwork IRL. While at the gallery, make sure to mint your free Guest Book NFT, powered by IYK. This will automatically enter you into our giveaway for a chance to win a limited edition of Boeman One winner will be selected per location. Guests have up until midnight on Halloween (October 31st) to enter.
Daniel Martin Artist & member of Arthouse Daniel lives and works in Leiden, Netherlands. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, with exhibitions in the Museum of Contemporary Art of Queretaro; SOHD, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen; Museum of young art, Oosterhout; Booth Gallery, New York; Beers Gallery, London; Den Gallery, Kuwait City; Thinkspace, Los Angeles; and a duo show with Phillip Akkerman in The Hague.
Daniel is co-founder of the artist initiative Arthouse which organizes myriad projects and runs two residencies (NL/MEX). In 2019 he co-founded the annual 1606 project that facilitates cross cultural connections between international artists in collaboration with PaintGuide and the University of Leiden among other local partners in The Netherlands and Mexico.
Violet P Jones Artist, filmmaker & member of Arthouse
From 2013 to 2016 Violetta Palak Jones was a Director/Producer of a small film production company Flyboy Creative in Scotland with her short films shown in numerous film festivals around the world.
She completed figurative painting and drawing courses at Leith School of Art and attended Edinburgh Napier University accredited atelier of fine arts where she received training in classical drawing and painting. She has also completed art residencies in Tequisquiapan, Mexico and Leiden, Holland and has become a member of the artists collective, ARTHOUSE.
In January 2020, she started her journey in the Web3 space and she’s been creating NFTs ever since.
Henrik Uldalen Artist & member of Arthouse
Henrik Aarrestad Uldalen (1986) is a Norwegian artist living and working out of London. His creative production revolves around classic figurative painting, presented in a contemporary manner. Henrik seeks to explore ideas revolving around absurdism, nostalgia, loneliness and alienation, juxtaposed with frail beauty. Though a figurative painter, his focus has always been the emotional content rather than narratives. The atmosphere in his work is often presented in a dream or limbo-like state, with elements of expressionism.
Henrik is the founder of PaintGuide, a curatorial platform that organizes exhibitions and creative projects internationally. Over the years he has shown his works in galleries, museums, billboards and art-fairs across the world, as well as printed in major publications.
Santiago Pani Artist, member of Arthouse, director of the residencies Arthouse Holland and Arthouse Pani
Mexican artist currently living and working in the Netherlands. Recently he has focused on the Portrait series “Personal Universe”, which is inspired by anonymous characters and memories of people stored in the subconscious throughout our lives and the idea that sometimes while awake and other times during our dreams, these anonymous visitors will be recalled by our minds to interact and influence our story once again.
Lately, Pani has found himself very connected to these concepts and ideas, which makes the production of these pieces be very organic and visceral.
Ivo Nupoort Artist & animator
Creative director, illustrator and animator
Visit Peyote Ugly official website for full project details
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