2020
Paul-Émile Rioux creates evocative digital art that pulls the viewer into an uncanny world and provides a haunting reflection of reality. His virtual color photography and landscape photography pieces reveal their synthesized nature only upon close inspection.
Rioux is based in Montréal, Canada, where he studied animation at Concordia University. In the early 1990s, he established a career in photography with a focus on urban environments. At the same time, he was developing an interest in 3D software. Eventually, the virtual world overtook the real one as his main passion.
Rioux combines his photography with cutting-edge technology to create the virtual matrices from which his images are born. He eschews more popular image manipulation technologies, such as Photoshop, in favor of numerous digital techniques and 3D software. Each technology is like a different paintbrush that helps Rioux generate the final image, which is the result of algorithmic possibilities captured in a cut of virtual space and time.
Rioux’s new media work offers a tense glimpse of a dystopic world populated by infinite skyscrapers. It encourages one to pause and reflect on the future and the environment.
Whitehot Magazine advises the viewer to “think of one of Rioux’s works as the template for a truly engulfing experience.” Though the worlds he brings to life exist only digitally, they represent a meeting of reality and imagination.
Rioux’s work was exhibited at the 2021 Cube Art Fair in New York City.
On 1stDibs, find a collection of Paul-Émile Rioux’s digital art.
City Landcuts - Vision of a Urban Territory - Abstract Cityscapes
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass. Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada. His lifelong interest in cutting-edge media technology as well as his ...
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
City Landcuts - Vision of a Urban Territory - Abstract Cityscapes
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass. Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada. His lifelong interest in cutting-edge media technology as well as his ...
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
City Landcuts - Vision of a Urban Territory - Abstract Cityscapes
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass. Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada. His lifelong interest in cutting-edge media technology as well as his ...
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
City Landcuts - Vision of a Urban Territory - Abstract Cityscapes
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass. Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada. His lifelong interest in cutting-edge media technology as well as his ...
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
City Landcuts - Vision of a Urban Territory - Abstract Cityscapes
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass. Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada. His lifelong interest in cutting-edge media technology as well as his ...
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
City Landcuts - Vision of a Urban Territory - Abstract Cityscapes
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass. Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada. His lifelong interest in cutting-edge media technology as well as his ...
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Contemporary abstract landscape photograph cityscape buildings boats sky signed
By Jessie Spiess
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this image, Jessie Spiess applies her signature multiple-exposure technique to the City of Milwaukee as seen from the Yacht Club on Lake Michigan. She often turns her camera to vi...
Canvas, Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Future city 1-Signed limited edition abstract print, Large format contemporary
By Michael Banks
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
' Future city 1 ' - Limited edition pigment print - Limited Editions of 5 Signed + numbered by artist, with certificate of authenticity This print that is being offered is a high...
Archival Paper, Color, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Future city 1-Signed limited edition abstract print, Large format contemporary
By Michael Banks
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
' Future city 1 ' - Limited edition pigment print - Limited Editions of 5 Signed + numbered by artist, with certificate of authenticity This is an Archival Pigment print on fibe...
Archival Paper, Color, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Land II - Landscape Art Photography
By Carlos Blanchard
Located in Zürich, CH
Hailing from the picturesque city of Zaragoza, nestled near the Pyrenees, Carlos Blanchard's journey into the realm of photography was influenced by the rich tapestry of his upbringi...
Color
Contemporary abstract landscape photograph buildings cityscape sky signed
By Jessie Spiess
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this image, Jessie Spiess applies her signature multiple-exposure technique to the City of Milwaukee, emphasizing its many tall buildings. She often turns her camera to views of s...
Canvas, Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Contemporary abstract landscape photograph cityscape buildings sky signed
By Jessie Spiess
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this image, Jessie Spiess applies her signature multiple-exposure technique to the City of Milwaukee, emphasizing its many tall buildings. She often turns her camera to views of s...
Canvas, Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
