"Salle's creative method is to react to certain "givens"; to enter into a visual call-and-response with them. This aspect of his work is akin to the way certain painters at mid-century, notably Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, incorporated found objects into their paintings; the American flag or bits of urban detritus were the "givens" to which Rauschenberg and Johns responded."
"The paintings in My Frankenstein continue Salle's investigation into how machine learning can integrate with traditional painterly techniques. For the past few years, Salle has worked with an engineer to create a generative, proprietary AI model trained on aspects of his own oeuvre, feeding it a tightly edited selection of his past works and prompting it to generate new image configurations."
"The AI compositions form pixelated backgrounds, enlarged and printed on canvas, onto which the artist imposes a new layer of painted imagery. Salle has selected, altered, and repainted each one at will, in a dramatic compositional repartee between himself and a machine model of his own making."
David Salle is a postmodern painter known for juxtaposing disparate styles and imagery sources including art history, advertising, and his own photographs. Since the 1980s, he has engaged in visual call-and-response with found imagery, continuing a tradition established by mid-century artists like Rauschenberg and Johns. His recent series, My Frankenstein, explores integration of machine learning with traditional painting. Salle collaborates with an engineer to train a proprietary AI model on his past works, generating new image configurations that serve as compositional starting points. He then paints over these AI-generated pixelated backgrounds, creating dramatic exchanges between artist and machine. The resulting works reference traditional artistic genres including still life, landscape, and history painting.
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