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Painting has survived successive revolutions in technological image-making, and its value has only grown with each one. From photography to television to digital media to social networks, each new wave of innovation has clarified painting’s unique capacities: its embodiment of thought through material actions, its specific mechanisms of creating spatial complexity, density and ambiguity, its creation of meaning through myriad irreducible decisions. Now, as we witness another revolution with the rise of AI-generated imagery, Rexy Tseng’s paintings offer a particularly timely reminder of these essential qualities.
Looking at Tseng’s paintings, one can trace resonances with certain masters–Luc Tuymans’ photographic distance, Francis Bacon’s psychological spaces, Chaim Soutine’s organic treatment of landscape. While these influences are clear, Tseng’s paintings speak to our particular historical moment in a startlingly original way. At a...More
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Painting has survived successive revolutions in technological image-making, and its value has only grown with each one. From photography to television to digital media to social networks, each new wave of innovation has clarified painting’s unique capacities: its embodiment of thought through material actions, its specific mechanisms of creating spatial complexity, density and ambiguity, its creation of meaning through myriad irreducible decisions. Now, as we witness another revolution with the rise of AI-generated imagery, Rexy Tseng’s paintings offer a particularly timely reminder of these essential qualities.
Looking at Tseng’s paintings, one can trace resonances with certain masters–Luc Tuymans’ photographic distance, Francis Bacon’s psychological spaces, Chaim Soutine’s organic treatment of landscape. While these influences are clear, Tseng’s paintings speak to our particular historical moment in a startlingly original way. At a...More
