Lucas Samaras’s XYZ series, which includes four bodies of work created between 2010 and 2012, exemplifies the artist’s longstanding investigations of form, color, space, and the expansive possibilities of technology. A pioneer in photography and digital art, Samaras has pushed the boundaries of image making for much of his career. Some of his most famous series are his Photo-Transformations, created from 1973 to 1976 and centered on unorthodox manipulations of Polaroids, and his Photofictions, fragmented self-portraits and fantastical abstractions from 2003. Deeply engaged with Samaras’s experimentations of this kind, works in the XYZ series feature psychedelic formations rendered in electric colors. As part of an online presentation, Pace Gallery is presenting two newly minted NFTs derived from the series— XYZ 0862 (Chinoiserie) and XYZ 0879 (Chinoiserie). Consisting of a digital component and an 11x17 inch physical print, these works are dated 2012/2021 to reflect their original format and later transformation into NFTs. Ownership of each Lucas Samaras XYZ NFT 1:1 edition will whitelist holders for the second Samaras NFT drop on Pace’s dedicated NFT platform later this fall.
