Laurence Gartel’s ‘Digital Titan’: Closing Party at Voltaire

Friday, January 4th from 8-11pm enjoy the closing party for Laurence Gartel‘s ‘Digital Titan’ at Voltaire. Digital Titan is on view at Palm Beach Photographic Centre through January 5, 2019. Known as the pioneer of digital art, Gartel is often referred to as ‘The Father of Digital Art‘.* He created his first piece of digital art in 1975 at Media Study Buffalo in upstate New York and also created the first digital ad for Absolut Vodka. Gartel has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the Princeton University Art Museum, a museum retrospective at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach in 1991, along with many exhibitions and shows within South Florida, the United States and Europe over the course of his career. Laurence Gartel has written and published numerous books, he’s been featured in countless art history books and was also Andy Warhol’s computer arts teacher. He has worked with famous faces like Debbie Harry, the Sex Pistols, and more recently, Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears. The exhibition Digital Titan will be on view from November 17, 2018 through January 5, 2019.