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Harvey Rayner

Harvey Rayner

Formal First Name
Harvey
Dates
1975 - present

Harvey Rayner is a prolific digital and generative artist with a diverse background working as a designer, inventor, programmer and business owner while creating an extensive body of artwork spanning over 25 years. His extensive body of work showcases an evolution in his formalized geometric approaches to art creation. In recent times, he has deeply embraced the Long Form Generative art approach, utilizing randomness as a means to explore dynamic composition, deep texture, and generative color. Rayner has had some great releases with Fontana on Art Blocks, Velum on Bright Moments, and a few others.

MORE ABOUT HARVEY

  • Harvey was formerly known as patterndotco, which was the handle he used to go by.

  • Recently, he has rebranded and decided to go with his real name, Harvey Rayner.

  • The maker's first piece to be offered at auction was "Wonderland Entropy" at Sotheby's New York in 2023. 

  • He was featured in "Harvey Rayner Collaborates with Collectors for Quasi Dragon Studies NFT Drop", a piece from FAD Magazine in August 2023.


QUASI DRAGON STUDIES

  • Quasi Dragon Studies is an art experiment in community co-creation.

  • This project is an algorithmic, Web33 extension of Harvey's personal modus operandi. 

  • Collectors mint art tiles with randomly assigned edge properties that enable them to be joined together to create new artworks using a tool called the Composite Builder.