Yung Jake at Vanity Projects

<p><strong>Daata Editions x Vanity Projects NYC and Miami are delighted to present and screen ...</strong></p> <p><strong>Yung Jake artworks commissioned by Daata Editions. </strong></p> <p><strong>On view in both Vanity NYC and Miami venues August 10 - September 2</strong></p> <p><strong>Vanity Projects, 99 Chrystie St 2F, New York, NY, 10002 +16464102928</strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.vanityprojectsnyc.com/">www.vanityprojectsnyc.com/</a> & @vanityprojectsnyc.com</p> <p>Yung Jake mixes wildly immersive digital art with rap. Via the paint-with-emojis site emoji.ink, he created celebrity portraits featured by MTV, People, and Time that inspired a Pepsi ad. In emoji portrait vids, Yung Jake tracks his creative process of depicting each given rapper / celeb / or internet personality using the app emoji.ink that was programmed by his partner, Vince Mckelvie.<br>Yung Jake mixes wildly immersive digital art with rap. Via the paint-with-emojis site emoji.ink, he created celebrity portraits featured by MTV, People, and Time that inspired a Pepsi ad. </p> <p>Yung Jake took home a Webby for Netart, and <a href="http://e.m-bed.de/d">e.m-bed.de/d</a>, his browser-bending hip hop video project with Vince Mckelvie, was shown at Sundance’s New Frontier exhibition in 2013 with his augmented reality app AugMented Real, and is a 2016 Sundance Institute Fellow. Yung Jake has had three solo shows with Steve Turner, Art Berlin Contemporary and Art Brussels, and performed everywhere from SXSW and Webster Hall to Hammer Museum, Redcat, MOCA and at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Yung Jake is represented by Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles.</p> <p><strong>Upcoming Daata x Vanity Projects Schedule:</strong><br>September 3 - September 29 - Jacky Connolly<br>Sepetember 30 - October 19 - Sue de Beer<br>October 20 - November 17 - Jeremy Couillard<br>November 17 - December 5 - Jillian Mayer<br>December 6 - January 3 - DAATA MIX TAPE<br>January 4 - January 26 - Rashaad Newsome</p>