JEFFREY VENTRELLA

Artist/researcher/innovator (ventrella.com)
Master of Science: MIT Media Lab
Master of Fine Arts: Syracuse University
Bachelor of Fine Arts: VCU






organic algorithm series



"Jeffrey Ventrella contributes “Cosmic Atom” (as seen above), a 30″x30″ metal print created with generative algorithms that echo both micro and macro worlds—a convergence of art, code and imagination"

- Pacific Sun, Culture Crush, 7/16




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While half the world’s artist population frets over a looming tech apocalypse (looking at you, AI)...Jeffrey Ventrella has already achieved mastery over the machines.

His work, with lunar-like leitmotifs of mandala-like forms, appears both ancient and futuristic, organic and technological. The sense of scale reels between the minute and the vast, as some works evoke the vignetting of a microscope slide or peering into a telescope. Ventrella achieves these results with an artist’s eye and a coder’s acumen for telling algorithms what to do, and as such, is among a new wave of computer-aided creators who are blurring the lines between artist and medium.


- Daedalus Howell, 2024






"Sentience" - Lori Austin Gallery




"Fractal Curves" by artist JJ Ventrella, ravel into imaginary places and unchartered territories that entices and invites further exploration. Viewing these space-filling curves with only a few levels of fractal recursion reveals the beautiful logic of its convoluted path. Each fractal is imaged at true 2880 resolution as museum quality giclée art prints." - Point B Studio





Exhibitions and Publications

2025 Healdsburg, CA. Prints available at the Lori Austin Gallery

2025 Berkeley CA. The Mythology of Tomorrow (group show) 120710 Art Gallery

2025 Petaluma CA. Petaluma Art Center (group show) My World in Blue

2025 Eindhoven, Netherlands. Bridges Math/Art conference exhibition

2024 Petaluma, CA. Two-person show with Doug Ballou; IceHouse Gallery; Paint and Pixel

2024 Richmond, VA. Bridges Math and Art gallery show

2019 Mill Valley, CA. O’Hanlon Center for the Arts. (group show) “Pixels to Print”

2019 Linz, Austria. Bridges Math and Art gallery show (honorable mention in 2D)

2019 Sebastopol, CA. Lori Austin Gallery, solo show: “Organic Algorithms”

2011 Vancouver, BC. Computational Aesthetics Art. (group show) “Branching Patterns”

2010 Port Orford, OR. Point B Studio, fractal curve design exhibited at “Find Way”

1991 Boston, MA. Gallery Naga, exhibited “Genetic Space”

1990 Halifax, Nova Scotia. Exhibited at Graphic Interface conference

1988 Atlanta, GA. SIGGRAPH Art Show

1986 Syracuse NY. Exhibited and presented on fractal art alongside Dr. Mandelbrot





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