CHRISTOPHER KULENDRAN THOMAS
THE PAGES THAT FOLLOW feature five images Christopher Kulendran Thomas produced especially for Artforum. He composed them using machine-learning technologies trained on work by other artists, a technique he also uses to prepare the PNG files that he and his assistants sometimes translate, with paint, onto canvas. The pictures here exist in a liminal state, not yet paintings but a palimpsest of accumulated histories of gesture and an imprimatura for gestures never to come.
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Sam Gilliam, Foggy (detail), 2021, acrylic, aluminum granules, copper chop, sawdust, flocking, encaustic, and paper collage on canvas, 96 × 96 × 4".
© Sam Gilliam/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
November 2023
VOL. 62, NO. 3
