Nick Fudge is a curated artist on the digital art platform Sedition, representing a select group of leading contemporary artists. Fudge’s digital practice, spanning from 1994 to the present, is a singular body of work that has been intentionally withheld from public view for over 25 years - a decision that predates the rise of the NFT market and the broader digital art movement. This deliberate delay reflects his commitment to preserving the conceptual and artistic integrity of his work and resisting premature exposure in a rapidly commercializing art world.  

His highly strategic and controlled approach to the release of his work includes a digital project at Lop Nur (a dried-up salt lake in the Gobi Desert) that went unadvertised and will be featured as an unpresent presence in his upcoming solo exhibition at the C5CNM Gallery in Beijing's 798 Art District in the spring of 2025 . Other examples include the production of a limited number of digital prints in China for his participation in a digital art exhibition at the Gravity Art Museum in Beijing. 

Now available on Sedition, his digital works offer collectors a rare opportunity to engage with an unparalleled practice that remains uncompromisingly authentic and steeped in an intentional rarity. With its controlled release and unique provenance, Fudge’s work offers both a significant contribution to the history of digital art and an exceptional investment for discerning collectors.  

In Nick Fudge's Picasso Pizazz collection, the contexts of modernism and postmodernism are introduced through the genre of portraiture, weaving them into our current metamodern discourse on the art of the past in relation to a seemingly technologically determined future. This approach serves to recontextualize the impact of machines on modernist art and values. The collection focuses on two of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, Picasso and Duchamp, who had distinctly different attitudes and approaches to the concept and practice of art and machines and machine aesthetics.

Fudge is an expert on Duchamp's life and work. He has incorporated key Duchampian concepts, such as delay, the hidden, art-as-reproduction, etc., into his art practice and contextual strategies. This collection humorously explores some of Duchamp's more esoteric concepts, such as the bachelor (machine), the infra-slim, and chance. Picasso Pizazz contrasts Duchamp's sparsely analytical production with Picasso's protean, hallucinatory formalism, which profoundly influenced modern art's stylistic development and commodification.

Fudge has been incorporating modern and postmodern aesthetics and ideas into his digital work for three decades, most recently linking Duchamp's Readymades and Picasso's protean stylistic experiments with AI image generation and machine learning to critique and continue their legacies. Including a digitized portrait of the eccentric French composer Erik Satie adds a musically idiosyncratic tone, unconventional style, and whimsy to the collection.

Picasso Pizazz is a profound reflection on art's past, present, and future.

Nick Fudge's collection Destruction of Appearance of five still artworks brings together works from two series that the artist began in 1994 - Drive and Apparitional Appearance.

The Drive series emerged from his extensive travels across America in the 1990s, carrying his digital works on external hard drives. The series explores reproductive media from different eras, often co-existing in a hyper-reality, such as black and white photography, painting, and graphic software, and is represented in this collection by the works Mount Olympia and Reality Drive.

The Apparitions of Appearance series reflects on the illusory nature of digital spaces and the realities of software development as it is constantly updated and expanded in functionality. This series, which includes Destruction of Appearance (1.0), Unsupervised Jazz (6.0), and Night Blindness_01, was constructed with an emphasis on the beauty of precision and an attitude of aesthetic indifference.

Fudge's artistic explorations investigate philosophical ideas surrounding reality, and he is deeply interested in works that challenge established norms and allow space for the development of alternative models of reality.