Artist Roundup: Standout NFT artists on SIGN-Art app
We recently did a post on Alternative NFT Marketplaces (using alt coins rather than the ETH network for transactions) and one of the featured platforms was SIGN-Art app, which we’ve spent the last few days exploring.
Over that time, we’ve rounded up some of our favorite artists for you to explore (and buy from!) in order to build your NFT collection. Keep in mind that SIGN-Art does most purchases in WAVES which has been in an upswing lately, so the prices listed below may or may not already be outdated.
Alltheboystotheart
“Thematically Brandon’s collage work assembles three elements; Black joy, Black beauty and Blackness, the representations of which he often passively absorbed as a media consumer in his youth. Throughout quarantine and the Black Lives Matter Movement, his art is both an act of self-care and political as he nurtures a pride in Black culture while also actively and positively contributing to it.” — SIGN art introduction
We love this series of digital collages from Brandon. They feel seamless and intentional. If you look closely at the edges, there are no awkward rough-cuts where the background of the original images were removed. You can tell this artist treated these collages like art rather than commercial NFTs to roll out for the money. To get these clean cuts and seamless blending, he probably spent hours zoomed in and cleaning up images. The result is positive, beautiful imagery related to black culture and beauty as he sees it.
Each piece is 25 WAVES which is around $350 USD.
Luciano Boccardini
50 years painting in the name of soul, always running up the deeper inspiration, trying to follow my inside voice; shapes and emotions change, essence remain
This long-time painter adds pictures of his work along with accompanying quotes or poems. We love these paintings and wish he had more information about the medium used and original creation, but despite that, this is still excellent work. This is the only physical artist who turned digital on our list, so if you like buying from artists who have already made it in the physical world, this is a good one to consider.
Most of his pieces are around 5 WAVES which is currently close to $70 USD.
Hazy Artworks
Depressed by day, anxious by night. I create photomanipulations and digital collages
Sorry for the two digital collage artists, but Hazy Artworks has a distinctly different feel than Brandon. I particularly like their collection of collages that have plain, muted backgrounds. They are simple, but striking. I know I’ve written before about a subject placed in the center of a blank background, but I think the images and consistent color balance of these images makes up for it.
For more example of this artist’s work, you can check out KnownOrigin as well, where their prices around above $500 a piece.
Most of this work is 20 WAVES or around $279 on Sign-Art
Rariboy
Designer. Crypto enthusiast since 2013
These square images all sold between $20-$50, but you’ll need to wait for his next collection considering everything is sold out right now! At first I thought these were just beautifully balanced geometric patterns. Then I looked a little harder (which all good art should compel you to do) and realized there are seascapes and buildings hidden in these lines. I love the peaceful feeling of these colors and the creativity of hiding images in lines.
Santiago Echeverry
Santiago Echeverry is a Colombian-American New Media Artist and Professor, with a background in Video Art, Performance Art, Web Development, and Artivism. He started exhibiting in 1989, participating since then in some of the most important festivals in the world, and he is considered a pioneer in the field of Net Art and Queer Filmmaking in Latin America. His research is focused on volumetric imaging, interactive web development, and creative coding. All his works and projects are available online at www.santi.t
For those of you who love a traditional background, this art professor should fulfill your qualification needs. His background definitely supports his pricing which is 550 waves (or about $8,500 right now) for this video piece, which I highly suggest you click on if you’d like to see an example of what a video/animation/moving image can look like when created by experienced hands.
For anyone else currently on SIGN-Art, we’d love to hear about your favorites. These are our recommended investment artists, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t others who are equally, or more!, talented than the ones we’ve come across ourselves.
