Jack Kaido takes form as cap wearing ghost illustration

Jack Kaido

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textured digital work with smooth lines foregrounded by individual pixels
Jack Kaido takes form as cap wearing ghost illustration

Jack Kaido

“Anonymity means more focus on the art and less on who the artist is. Less cult of personality, more collective cultivation of ideas.”

Painting the digital cave

The online experience is condensed into Jack Kaido’s paintings. A hundred different elements compete for your attention in a sensory experience as intense as it is familiar. Abstract lines and shapes mimic the links, pop-ups, images and ads on every web page. Jack creates his works on Procreate – a digital painting app. He begins each one with a twenty second sketch, then builds up layers that are sometimes “expressionistic action painting” and other times “methodical and slow.” Ironically, he describes cave paintings as one of his biggest influences. Like those prehistoric artists, Jack is al...

Bio

Jack Kaido (he/him) is a pseudonymous British artist. 


New Frontiers

Jack is one of few artists with an artwork in space. In January 2024, one of his paintings was taken to the International Space Station by Axiom Space. 

Inspirations

Jack discovered Avant Arte through our collaboration with Ripcache, Security (2023). He calls it one of his favourite pieces of crypto-art. 


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