Actor and artist Jim Carrey launches his first NFT – ARTnews.com
Actor and comedian Jim Carrey, who has become known as a painter and political cartoonist in recent years, announced on Thursday that he has marked his first NFT with the platform SuperRare.
NFT, with the title Sunflower, is based on his painting of the same name and will be accompanied by an original voice-over, which was produced by filmmaker David Bushell. The auction, which started today, started at $ 1. Proceeds will go to Feeding America, a non-profit network of food banks.
“I have been both blessed and cursed in this life with a vivid imagination and a burning desire to share my peculiarities and inspirations with you,” Carrey wrote on Twitter. “This little mood booster is called Sunshower. I hope this NFT does for you what it did for me … weeeeeeee!
The description on SuperRare’s website for the work reads:
“A sun shower seems like you are receiving a divine gift; a form of medicine with miraculous regenerative potential. It’s hard to hang on to skepticism while the air around you sparkles like diamonds. Sunshows were made directly from acrylic paint tubes. The backgrounds were poured and the canvas was scraped, leaving only an imprint of each color’s first contact with the canvas behind. In that way, creating Sunshower was an exciting collaboration with coincidences, a long climb to a daring rock dive. The story is a celebration of our common light and the quiet exquisite moments that happen to all of us. “
“I had just started experimenting with bringing my art to life through simple animations,” Carrey said in a statement, “when the NFT world opened up. For me, there could never have been enough new places to create.”
Carrey’s announcement comes after he revealed earlier this month that he had bought his first NFT—The Wild Within – ‘Devotion’ by photographer Ryan Koopmans and digital artist Alice Wexell — also on SuperRare.
Throughout Trump’s presidency, Carrey regularly created political comics that he would post on Twitter. Over 100 of these works were exhibited in 2018 at the Maccarone Gallery in Los Angeles under the title “IndigNation.” The works were shown the following year at the Montreal Phi Center under the title “This Light Never Goes Out.” Last year, Carrey announced that he would leave the project in the foreseeable future.
Carrey has said he first started painting in 2011 as a “way to heal a broken heart.” His work and process were described in a short documentary from 2017, I needed color.
“I think what makes some artists is that they make models of their inner life,” Carrey says in the documentary. “They get something for physical existence that is inspired by their feelings or their needs or what they feel the audience needs.”
