Searchlight NFT Portfolio
MIGGSEYE - Paris is a Moveable Feast No. 2
MIGGSEYE - Tribute 4
MIGGSEYE - Roll. Rock. King.
MIGGSEYE - A Perfection of Thought
MIGGSEYE - Proud David (Still)
MIGGSEYE - Living at the Whim of Others Always Seemed Unbearable to Me
MIGGSEYE - Wisdom
MIGGSEYE - A Fellow of Infinite Jest
MIGGSEYE - All That Glitters is Not Gold
MIGGSEYE - I Quit My Job
MIGGSEYE - We Must Bring In Our Food From The Wilderness (GIF preview)
Artist Statement / Image Info
When Brendan Miggins (aka MIGGSEYE) was four years old he walked into the corner of a table and split open his forehead. Many years later, a friend told him that probably opened his Third Eye.
By age eight, Brendan had decided he wanted to become an architect—so he did, graduating from the University of Notre Dame with a professional degree in Architecture. A year studying art and design in Rome opened his eyes to Renaissance ideals and examples of versatile, creative individuals like Leonardo DaVinci who were unbounded by singular labels like artist, architect, inventor. Today we call this: Polymath.
After Notre Dame, Brendan practiced architecture, art, and all manner of creative impulse as a polymath while living in Texas and New Mexico—then returning to his birthplace of Connecticut. After caring for his parents through the end of their lives, Brendan discovered his life’s mission: Helping people discover their true creative self and potential in life. His work in art and design as MIGGSEYE, with a new focus in NFTs, is an expression of this mission.
MIGGSEYE’s current work involves new media digital image collages in a Pop Art style, similar to his work done using early era color copy machines (Risographs) which required multiple passes for each color scan. MIGGSEYE has advanced his process using new digital media and technology, resulting in playful, multiple exposure images, swimming in fields of color and evoking themes of time and memory. MIGGSEYE’s work also delves into experimental digital image glitch, which he posits is the new media corollary to printmaking (specifically monotype prints), which he was trained in while attending Notre Dame.
MIGGSEYE is an artist based in Farmington, Connecticut currently working primarily in a Glitch Pop Art style. His current NFT collections include: ABOVE SUNSET (an ongoing collection of image collages featuring pop culture icons, both old and new), GLITCH PARTY and A FELLOW OF INFINITE GLITCH (collections focused on experimental glitch imagery), and MIGGSEYE STUDIO (uncategorized stream of consciousness artworks and studies that may, or may not, lead to a new path, direction, or collection). MIGGSEYE’s work has been collected by notable NFT collectors including Paris Hilton.
PORTFOLIO IMAGE INFO:
Paris is a Moveable Feast, No. 3 — digital photo collage portrait of Paris Hilton, 2021
Tribute 4 —homage to modernist
Living at the Whim of Others Always Seemed Unbearable to Me — digital photo collage portrait Marilyn Monroe standing in a garden of male gaze, 2021
Roll. Rock. King. — digital photo collage portrait of Elvis dancing, dancing, dancing, 2021
A Perfection of Thought— digital glitch animation based on a line from a Wallace Stevens poem, 2021
A Fellow of Infinite Jest — a digital photo collage portrait of Sarah Bernhardt playing Hamlet in 1899, 2021
Wisdom— digital glitch animation based on a William Shakespeare quote, 2021
Proud David— digital glitch animation celebrating diversity and freedom, 2021
All That Glitters Is Not Gold— digital photo collage portrait of Elvis dancing, dancing, dancing, 2021
I Quit My Job— digital photo collage self-portrait, 2021
Artist CV
1987 University of Notre Dame Annual Student Art Show, Alliance Rental Gallery Award/Best In Show
1989* Dallas AIA, Young Architects Show, Award
1995* First Solo Show - Java Joe’s, Albuquerque, New Mexico
1995* eXcorpse, collaborative art show based on exquisite corpse among Generation X artists, curator and artist participant, Java Joe’s, Albuquerque, New Mexico
2002-2012* Gallery on the Green, Collinsville, CT, Artist Collaborative, participated in numerous group shows.
2021 Profanity Paraffins X Artists, group collaboration w/ Oscar Swag bag promotional tie in, Instagram (April and ongoing)
2021 AIA Connecticut, Napkin Sketch Competition, Winner
2021 NFTs.tips Miami, weeklong series of art shows/displays in various venues (June)
2021 XO Crypto NFT Pride Social, Blockchain Center NYC, New York, New York (June 24)
2021 XO Crypto NFT Pride, Zardoz Gallery, Cryptovoxels (June - July)
2021 Stratsophere NFT Art International, largest IRL/Metaverse NFT art showcase in the world, Beijing, China (July 31 -August 8)
2021 Stratosphere, Neal Digital Gallery, online gallery, (through until July 2022*).
*Indicates approximate date