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All Eyes on Art: Upcoming Collections to Watch the Week of September 10

BY Steven Miller

September 10, 2024

When you consider just how quickly things move in the metaverse, it’s a wonder that anyone can keep up with all the news and product launches, let alone the constant influx of incredible artwork. 

All things considered, it raises an important question: how can you efficiently discover the best upcoming art collections?

For the answer, look no further! I’ve scoured the metaverse to uncover the drops you simply can’t afford to overlook so you can focus on elevating your collection instead of endlessly scrolling through X and Discord.

In this week’s curated Collector’s Digest, I’ll give you a leg up in your search for the premier works debuting on Bitcoin Ordinals, Ethereum, and Solana. Here’s what to look out for this week.


🟧 ONE by Artist Dutch

〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, September 9th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Magic Eden

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 50

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public Sale [Now Open!]

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.0017 BTC

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: From an original canvas artwork the artist sliced and spliced into a mosaic, split into a collection of 50 Unique 1 of 1 works, set to be released in partnership with @BasedArtists. Each piece includes the original 3D digital artifact inscribed on an Alpha Sat as well as a claimable physical canvas print with a signed postcard from the artist.

🟪 Chromie Squiggle [Benefit Auction] by Snowfro

〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, September 9th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: AOTM x Iconic

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 3 Auction Lots

〰️ 🎛️ Format: 48H Reserve Auction [Now Open!]

〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 3.5 ETH

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Iconic & AOTM present a rare opportunity to secure a Squiggle directly from the vault of its creator – Erick Calderon. Each of the three auctions will benefit the Museum of Art + Light, giving collectors the chance to acquire a Chromie Squiggle along with a hand-signed artistic reproduction of their Squiggle by Matr Labs, a certificate of authenticity, and the matching NFT. The auction features a Slinky Squiggle (Chromie Squiggles #9752) and two Normal Squiggles (Chromie Squiggles #9753 & Chromie Squiggles #9756).

🟪 Egomorphs by Dr. Formalyst

〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, September 9th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Verse x TENDER

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 15

〰️ 🎛️ Format: 24H Ranked Auction [Now Open!]

〰️ 💰 Starting Price: $250

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Dr. Formalyst’s latest collection is composed of 15 self-portraits, soon to launch as a part of TENDER’s In Spirit exhibition. Each piece finds its origin in AI-generated music, to which the artist improvises movements until a narrative begins to unfold, materializing through a combination of 3D motion capture, CGI and AI.

🟪 Portraits from the Memory Palace by lilyillo

〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, September 9th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Colonna Contemporary

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 12

〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public Sale [Now Open!]

〰️ 💰 Price: $1,125

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: A collection of 12 portraits of women that the artist has met and in life and walking through the data of the latent space. Working with the medium of AI and the latent space, often feels like a memory illusion. It involves both familiarity and unfamiliarity, something akin to deja vu. The collection will be exhibited at the Colonna Contemporary Art Gallery beginning September 13th. Buying any of the 12 portraits will grant the buyer the exhibited 16.5″ x 23.5″ archival print on birch wood panel with a corresponding NFT digital twin.

🟪 Open Field by Fran Rodriguez

〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, September 9th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: SuperRare

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1

〰️ 🎛️ Format: 24H Reserve Auction [Now Open!]

〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 0.4 ETH

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Fran’s work is deeply inspired by his early fondness of surrealism and psychedelia. In his 20 year career, he has worked with bands such as Weezer, Tame Impala and Tycho creating visual elements for their concerts and albums and his work is exhibited and sold all over the world.

🟪 She, Shiba & the Scenery by Loredangoo

〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, September 9th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Foundation

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 9

〰️ 🎛️ Format: 24H Reserve Auction [Now Open!]

〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 0.169 ETH

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: For the next chapter in their growing 1 of 1 collection, Lore has added two new works – Clear Reflection and Clement Sunset. The remaining 7 Works in the collection have all been collected following their respective releases.

🟪 Complex Assemblies by HAL

〰️ 📅 Closing Date: Monday, September 9th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: fx(hash) [Base]

〰️ 🧮 Supply: Determined Post-Mint

〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public Sale [Now Open!]

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.004 ETH

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: An autonomous algorithm creates an infinite number of structures. At any moment the spectator can explore and interact with each structure. This exploration of complex systems illustrates that it is difficult to distinguish a chaotic system from a highly ordered system. Often what appears chaotic is simply an order so complex that it is difficult for us to perceive the rules that structure it. HAL has said this is “just the first episode of this experience,” so expect news on the next iterations soon.

🟪 Connection by erfan hoseinih

〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, September 9th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: fx(hash) [Base]

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 128

〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public Sale [Now Open!]

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.005 ETH

🟪🟫 Sketch 09/09/24 by unsleeping

〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, September 9th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: fx(hash)

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 200

〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public Sale [Now Open!]

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.001 ETH / 3.71 TEZ

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: The project is presented on two chains, 100 on Tezos and 100 on Base.

🟫 maqam by zolfaqqari

〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, September 9th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: fx(hash) [Tezos]

〰️ 🧮 Supply: Determined October 10th

〰️ 🎛️ Format: 1M Timed Edition [Now Open!]

〰️ 💰 Price: 4 TEZ

🟧 The Gamma Blind Box

〰️ 📅 Date: Tuesday, September 10th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Gamma

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 321 Rewards

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: 4H GTD AL @ 4pm ET

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: 24H FCFS @ 8pm ET

〰️ 💰 Price: FREE + Fees

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: A surprise bonus drop for Gamma Summer Pass holders, including three original artworks from TheArtistBTC, FKYN Art, and Michaelgdx plus nearly two dozen additional special items yet to be unveiled. Minters will receive one of the following: a 1/1 original from the artist, a 1/1 original from OKAYAMAN, a 1/1 original from Michael Devereux, 1 of 100 print editions of each artist’s work, or 1 of 18 0.0021 BTC airdrops. Supply is capped at 321 items or the 24 hour mark, whichever comes first.

🟪 EYENESSLESS by Iskra Velitchkova

〰️ 📅 Date: Tuesday, September 10th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Avant Arte

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 30

〰️ 🎛️ Format: Random Draw @ 9am ET

〰️ 💰 Price: $2,258 (Optional Framing +$500)

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Velitchkova plays reverse engineer to mother nature in her latest series of generative prints. The collection asks whether, by amplifying the immaterial parts of ourselves, machines can make us more human than ever. This question runs in parallel to the seemingly-organic forms found throughout her practice. Each unique print is paired with a matching NFT.

🟫 Darkest Hour by Qotonana

〰️ 📅 Date: Tuesday, September 10th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: fx(hash) [Tezos]

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 128

〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public @ 12pm ET

〰️ 💰 Price: 8 TEZ

🟧 unh00ded by Sir Gadfly

〰️ 📅 Date: Wednesday, September 11th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Gamma [Prints]

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 100 Editions

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ 2:11pm ET

〰️ 💰 Price: 49,000 SATS

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: This is inscribed to the Rare SAT name “breakmefree,” which is a relatively new meta for an artist to seek out SATS with a story that help convey everlasting emotion and story. It’s a spin on free speech and censorship. Hand-Drawn. Glitched. Classic Sir Gadfly.

🟪 UVAs by Qian Qian

〰️ 📅 Date: Wednesday, September 11th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: MakersPlace

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 48

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: 24H Presale @ 12pm ET

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: 10-Day Public @ 12pm ET (9/12)

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.07 ETH

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Part of Digital Art Day Malaga’s Generative Wines, UVAs is a graphic composition system inspired by grape clusters. Using 10 ​color pixels as fundamental elements, 100 unique compositions are ​generated using 1 to 10 pixels each time.

🟪 Permitete by Iskra Velitchkova

〰️ 📅 Date: Wednesday, September 11th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: MakersPlace

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 48

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: 24H Presale @ 12pm ET

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: 10-Day Public @ 12pm ET (9/12)

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.07 ETH

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Part of Digital Art Day Malaga’s Generative Wines, Velitchkova’s collection was created from the idea of liberating ourselves to ​experience this beautiful feeling of just being free to sketch hypothetical (or ​not hypothetical) future lives once we open a good bottle of wine, alone or ​sharing a table with loved ones.

🟪 Gotim a Gotim by Anna Carreras

〰️ 📅 Date: Wednesday, September 11th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: MakersPlace

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 48

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: 24H Presale @ 12pm ET

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: 10-Day Public @ 12pm ET (9/12)

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.07 ETH

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Part of Digital Art Day Malaga’s Generative Wines, Gotim a Gotim encapsulates with abstract forms the essence of our soil and landscape, culture, and traditions as a ​bottle encapsulates its essence distilled into wine.

🟪 Palabras y todo lo demas by Marcelo Soria-Rodriguez

〰️ 📅 Date: Wednesday, September 11th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: MakersPlace

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 48

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: 24H Presale @ 12pm ET

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: 10-Day Public @ 12pm ET (9/12)

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.07 ETH

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Part of Digital Art Day Malaga’s Generative Wines, the collection employs a reduced set of visual elements to metaphorically represent ​all sorts of communication while offering a tribute to ​chatting, conversations, sharing stories, fears, celebrations, debate and ​everything else that contributes to human progress or expresses human life ​in all its diversity.

🟪 Signature Labels by Ana Maria Caballero

〰️ 📅 Date: Wednesday, September 11th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: MakersPlace

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 48

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: 24H Presale @ 12pm ET

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: 10-Day Public @ 12pm ET (9/12)

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.07 ETH

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Part of Digital Art Day Malaga’s Generative Wines, Signature Labels reveals how the act of signing ennobles an object, ​bestowing a book or an artwork with a powerful intention that spills beyond ​the bounds of the thing itself.

🟪 Apparatus Vitis by Ivona Tau

〰️ 📅 Date: Wednesday, September 11th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: MakersPlace

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 48

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: 24H Presale @ 12pm ET

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: 10-Day Public @ 12pm ET (9/12)

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.07 ETH

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Part of Digital Art Day Malaga’s Generative Wines, an exploration of the Vitis Vinifera plant forms (grape vines) with ​generative adversarial networks.

🟪 Cathedrales Irreales by Look Highward

〰️ 📅 Date: Wednesday, September 11th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: MakersPlace

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 48

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: 24H Presale @ 12pm ET

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: 10-Day Public @ Time TBA (9/12)

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.07 ETH

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Part of Digital Art Day Malaga’s Generative Wines, a collection of imagined sacred spaces which seek to ​explore the nature of human numinous experience through the ​interpretive lens of AI.

🟪 Spinnin’ Circles by Fingacode

〰️ 📅 Date: Wednesday, September 11th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: MakersPlace

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 48

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: 24H Presale @ 12pm ET

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: 10-Day Public @ 12pm ET (9/12)

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.07 ETH

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Part of Digital Art Day Malaga’s Generative Wines, the heart of Spinnin’ Circles lies an alchemy of simplicity and complexity, where ​the essence of creation is distilled from a single, unassuming circle. Much ​like the transformation of a humble grape into a rich and intricate wine, this ​gen algorithm takes a basic geometric shape and spins it through a ​generative dance, yielding artworks that pulse with life and vibrancy.

🟪 Vitis Vinifera by Solimán López

〰️ 📅 Date: Wednesday, September 11th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: MakersPlace

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 48

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: 24H Presale @ 12pm ET

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: 10-Day Public @ 12pm ET (9/12)

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.07 ETH

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Part of Digital Art Day Malaga’s Generative Wines, Vitis Vinifera is the scientific name given to the commonly known grapevine, ​the most common and cultivated climbing plant in the world used to make ​wine. The artwork uses parts of the genetic sequence of this plant to generate a pixel pattern that corresponds with the ​selected DNA sequence.

🟪 Never Ending Summer by Josep Prat Sorolla

〰️ 📅 Closing Date: Wednesday, September 11th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Foundation

〰️ 🧮 Supply: Determined Post-Mint

〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public Sale [Now Open!] 

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.01 ETH

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: This Timed Open Edition will close @ 4:20pm ET on Wednesday, September 11th.

🟪 SketchScape #1 by Ikiddo

〰️ 📅 Date: Wednesday, September 11th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: fx(hash) [Base]

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 65

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ 12:30pm ET

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.00065 ETH

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: The goal of this project is to create a city on a large scale where buildings are not the only elements. Using another algorithm, there are also streets between the buildings.

🟫 In Your Car No.1 by Sasha Katz

〰️ 📅 Date: Wednesday, September 11th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: OBJKT x Fakewhale

〰️ 🧮 Supply: Open Edition

〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public @ 10am ET

〰️ 💰 Price: 15 TEZ

🟫 In Your Car No.2 by Sasha Katz

〰️ 📅 Date: Wednesday, September 11th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: OBJKT x Fakewhale

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1

〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public @ 10am ET

〰️ 💰 Price: 1500 TEZ

🟧 [Title TBA] by OTO

〰️ 📅 Date: Thursday, September 12th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Gamma

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 2,784 [MAX]

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Holder Claim @ 7pm ET

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.00036 BTC

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Gamma Summer Pass Holders can mint 1 Piece per Summer Pass.

🟧 Light Waves by Kanetix

〰️ 📅 Date: Thursday, September 12th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: VIVID Gallery

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 3,333

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Allowlist @ Time TBA

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ Time TBA

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.0005 BTC

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: The first piece in a series that celebrates the beauty and complexity of light. Each piece is an exploration of the interplay between light, color, and movement – transforming natural phenomena into captivating works of art, encouraging viewers to see the world through a new, light-infused lens.

🟪 Selection by Jan Robert Leegte

〰️ 📅 Date: Thursday, September 12th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Independent Site

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 150

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ 2pm ET

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.11 ETH

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: The focus of the work is focus itself, fixating on the selection tool as its primary subject. The animated paths skew between jagged and regular, overlaying solids, gradients and transparency grids. While an initial distribution decides which background each token has, owners can manually override the attribute with a contract interaction. The collection is being launched with Folia.

🟪 Biomes by Rob Scalera

〰️ 📅 Date: Thursday, September 12th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: fx(hash) [Base]

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 128

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ 12pm ET

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.004 ETH


Thanks for checking out All Eyes on Art! I curate this comprehensive yet selective digest of upcoming collections to keep you informed week in and week out. If you’d like to see more color in your X feed, I share a 30-Day Outlook version of this Collector’s Digest every Monday and my Discover Art series every Thursday.

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