along7 gallery

along7 gallery

The market sells it. The gallery keeps it.

The art outlives the marketplace.

I used to think I was only buying art I liked. Hundreds of pieces in, it looks like something else. Every choice here was instinct, and instinct repeated enough times stops being random and starts being a shape. Taken all together the collection is a kind of personal mandala: my unconscious, showing through a network of digital art I never planned but somehow always meant. It is the closest thing I have to a self-portrait, and other people painted every piece of it.

New here? No wallet or account needed, just curiosity. Start here for the whole thing in plain English, skim the common myths, or follow any gold dotted word and pull the thread.

From the notebook · Essay

A Database With Good Lighting

How this gallery was built, for artists and for programmers: what happens to a work after it is collected, how the files get rescued, how the chain proves the history, and how a museum gets built out of one database file. With the art running through it.

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September 6th - 11:11
If you see one thing

September 6th - 11:11

Justin Aversano

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Step into a room

Seven ways into the collection, by medium and by moment. Some rooms move.

Wander the building

Every wing of the archive, one door each. No map needed, but there is one of those too.

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Artists in focus all artists →