Five of his 11 paintings on view at Petzel incorporate A.I.-generated imagery, mostly buried in abstract spills and smears.
Indeed, Price conjured the pictures using A.I., printed them “wet” on plastic, then smeared the ink with his fingers, adding an inimitable human touch.
This is the distinctive garbled diction of image-generators, which imitate the look of words but not necessarily their meaning.
It sure looks like a vintage photo, though: a black and white, worn-looking picture of two women, one hunching enigmatically behind the other.
Human anatomy, like words, can be tricky for image-generating A.I.’s.)