Austin-based Trinidadian artist Rodell Warner takes home award for rising creators.
Austin's art scene truly embraced the digital era today with the announcement that 3D artist Rodell Warner is the recipient of this year's Tito's Prize from Tito's Vodka and Big Medium Gallery.
The artist, who splits his time between his birthplace in Trinidad and his adopted home in Austin, receives an unrestricted award of $15,000, and Big Medium Gallery will host an exhibition of his work – his first solo show in Austin – in the spring of 2024. Warner began in zines before moving into portrait photography: However, he moved away from the static image in the early 2010s with experiments in animated gifs, then transferring into animation-amplified photos in his Augmented Archive series. More recently, he has moved into 3D modeling in works like his the Veil series, and now he is probing the artistic possibilities of LIDR scanning.
Acknowledging the honor, Warner said,"Having time to experiment and to refine new methods and directions is expansive for my practice and is extremely valuable in the long term. Having the support of Tito's Prize affords me the time to do this kind of work." Established in 2017, the Tito's Prize is open to any artist in any media at any stage in their career, as long as they are resident in a 17-mile radius of Austin.
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