Maccarone gallery’s presentation of Grimes on eBay extends the artist’s debut exhibition launched as an immersive online experience at a time when galleries increasingly move to virtual spaces -- to an even more immediate and inclusive digital audience.

This exclusive launch is the first collaboration between eBay and Maccarone. The digital exhibition is a retrospective like-presentation spanning the last 10 years including various forms of media including drawing, digital prints, photographs, and video, has been translated into a carefully curated retail experience, breaking the art historical barriers of both physical exhibitions and online viewing rooms and moving to a global platform allowing engagement by seasoned art collectors, online shoppers, and curious new audiences alike.

The presentation includes 3 separate exclusive launches which present a thoughtfully curated body of work, both separately and as a whole, with merchandise and limited-edition items that have been considered within the framework of the artist's overall project. A coloring book, an "Evergreen" item, will be featured in all three drops. Grimes' first art publication, "Miss Information: A Coloring Book, 2020" is a coloring book: the form of which is necessarily incomplete. It invites collaboration in much the same vein as the artist's recent Grimes Art Kit, a collective project which allowed fans to create and share music videos using official footage of the artist and open-source digital assets. Here, users can modify and activate the artist's work using their own tools, whether oil paints or crayons. Each page is perforated so the finished (or unfinished) image could be separated and exist as an artwork unto its own. The book features over 16 original drawings as well as an AI-generated poem. Like most coloring books, it is a project for all ages: In the course of creating the publication, the artist, a new mother, learned about infants' nascent visual perception and their preference for bold monochromatic images, and invites fellow parents to use the artworks as objects in an eye-tracking game.

In addition to the coloring book, the first offering will include special limited edition prints made with watercolor ink of Grimes’ album cover art and "failed album covers" which give insight into the process through which an album's final visuals are resolved.

This special launch highlights: A decade of Grimes' discography in paintings. The artwork for each cover embodies the album's spirit and universe. Geidi Primes: cyber and sci-Fi. Halifaxa: lo-Fi and ethereal. Visions: psychedelic and futuristic. Art Angels: orchestral and emo. Miss Anthropocene: cerebral and heavy. The covers develop from being hand-drawn until Art Angels where the art transitions to the digital ending with the tech-centric image of Miss Anthropocene, a self-portrait within a fictional simulation program.

eBay is a natural fit for Grimes -- a self-producing, tech-forward artist and musician renown for her longtime engagement with DIY artistic practice, consumer technology, and open-source software -- as well as for Maccarone, which has been pivoting online and recognizes the platform's unique ability to introduce its artists and projects to a broad public. eBay is a collector's site with a DIY approach to selling that is well suited for a special artistic launch like the Grimes collection.