The Blondie Artist Residency
The Blondie Artist Residency spotlights a select group of visionary artists pushing the boundaries of digital creativity. Over the course of the residency, five artists will present solo digital exhibitions, offering collectors and enthusiasts an intimate look at their unique practices, styles and themes.
Dylan Wade
Since their early teens, Dylan Wade has crafted hundreds of personal videos, exploring a wide range of themes united by a profound sense of nostalgia. This driving force stems from a desire to capture fleeting moments, preserving them through thoughtful editing and meaningful compilations. Their artwork follows a similar thread, drawing inspiration from emotions tied to feelings, old memories, and the familiar. Through suggestive shapes and ambiguous scenes, Dylan invites viewers to uncover their own stories within the work, forging a personal connection to the universal language of recollection.
Dylan Wade
About the Exhibition
Originally begun with Makersplace, the Blondie Residency highlights five artists working with a variety of mediums and styles. With the support of digital art patron and White Walls founder Blondie, each artist has developed a new body of work, presented in its own exhibition showcasing their evolving practices and stories.
The residency began in October of 2024 at the ALLSHIPS Creator house, where artists connected, and collaborated with one another. Itinerary included a museum tour and lunch hosted by digital artist Dave Krugman, two days of focused studio time, and a culminating gallery dinner with a curated audience of collectors and creators.
Throughout the residency, the artists engaged in strategic mentorship sessions and process documentation as they continued their work. A key focus was helping artists build their personal narrative and create strategic marketing materials to better promote their art and connect with a wider audience. Now at the end of this months-long journey, each artist presents their completed body of work on Transient Labs.
Meet the Artists
Since their early teens, Dylan Wade has crafted hundreds of personal videos, exploring a wide range of themes united by a profound sense of nostalgia. This driving force stems from a desire to capture fleeting moments, preserving them through thoughtful editing and meaningful compilations. Their artwork follows a similar thread, drawing inspiration from emotions tied to feelings, old memories, and the familiar. Through suggestive shapes and ambiguous scenes, Dylan invites viewers to uncover their own stories within the work, forging a personal connection to the universal language of recollection.
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Alyssa Stevens is a New York-based artist working primarily with oil pastel. Her practice is rooted in the exploration of the space between worlds - formed by memory, longing, and connection. Often drawn to familiar places from childhood that feel altered and suspended in time, Stevens returns to these realms through her work, viewing them as portals to process loss, the unseen, and the impermanence of it all. Her process is intuitive, driven by feeling and form, and guided by a desire to understand what ties her to these in-between spaces.
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Ruben Dario Ramirez is a Dominican-American artist whose illustrations explore themes of identity, community, technology, and religious motifs. Through layered, instinctive compositions, his smiling figures and surreal spaces invite viewers to explore the tension between humanity and our aspirations.
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June Kim is a Los Angeles–based multimedia artist, originally from South Korea, known for blending sculpture and installation with AI and 3D technologies. Her intricate works, woven with red thread on plexiglass, incorporate social media data and explore themes of fate and human connection, inspired by the ancient belief in the invisible red thread of destiny. Kim’s work has been showcased internationally, from Art Basel Miami and the Los Angeles Art Show to the French National Museum and the Paris AI Action Summit 2025.
Douglxss is a digital painter and truck driver whose work reflects his unique experiences from life on the road. His Night Shift series uses bold digital impasto techniques to convey the solitude and transition inherent in his profession. Influenced by artists like Edward Hopper and Rackstraw Downes, Douglxss creates meditative works that elevate mundane scenes to powerful expressions of human experience.
The artist cohort and team visits the Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2024.