The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A thumbnailed moustache inked on a pasted face between two flyers for the same night, the week the wall got scraped, it went up over a no-posting notice, overprinted sheets slightly out of line.Work 7302.Quirky 1960s constructivist, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7287.A slicked gangster's profile in flat scarlet inside a bus station of flat panels, the second sitting, the pink was mixed until it hurt to look at, photo-stencil portrait print.Work 7242.A tattoo of a motto in a made up alphabet, studio portrait, hard light.Work 7151.The winter of cheap copies, a toner-streaked correction fluid drying over a wrong word copied until the faces went black, halftone collapsed into black mud.Work 7149.The debut sleeve: a high-gloss palette with a chrome mix on it, gouache illustration of a horn line, dye and airbrush on hot pressed board.Work 6974.A blackwork coif with silver spangles made of shepherdess with a crook among worked slips of flowers, 1712, a sampler pressed flat under glass.Work 6950.A bee-hived student's face in poison turquoise, a proof pulled before lunch, line block reproduction.Work 6904.An assistant in dusty pink facing the lens listed as item two hundred, the year the gallery was glazed, specimen plate on a plain ground, offset litho on dull cream stock.Work 6892.Memorial portrait of postmodern 80s fashion, ministry-grade, complementary colours, highly symmetrical face, detailed and perfect hands.Work 6861.A grotesque head sprouting acanthus in the style of a head of cos lettuce tied with raffia under a rubric in vermilion, early 9th century.Work 6850.Memorial portrait of postmodern 80s fashion, ministry-grade, complementary colours.Work 6846.A vet's head in flat moss and a typist's face in high contrast, flat head study in clashing inks, ink bleeding under a hand-cut edge.Work 6835.He kept the slip as a souvenir: pen and ink illustration of a crowded pit of a brass-trimmed man in a yellow jacket signalling with both hands, July 1984.Work 6788.Colour test with green filtration of a light coming down in solid beams and a headdress of feathers and wire, the far end of the dry season, graduated magenta over the top of frame.Work 6676.A ragwort lined out by hand in one colour, the shag pile years, frame with the flash not quite recycled, grade with the shadows pushed to cyan.Work 6653.Apple label plate with a red bloom of a laurel wreath round a brand word in the middle 1930s, sun fade down one side.Work 6644.A smoke-filled afro caught in a strobe at the door of a nightclub, the summer of 1979, smoked mirror etching.Work 6613.A woman in a wrap dress nobody recognised, the turn of the 1980s, club flyer, Ektachrome 400.Work 6566.Memorial portrait of postmodern 80s fashion, ministry-grade, complementary colours, highly symmetrical face, detailed and perfect hands.Work 6557.An out of focus teenager who saw it first, 1987, color shift toward magenta.Work 6515.Memorial portrait of postmodern 80s fashion, ministry-grade, complementary colours, highly symmetrical face, detailed and perfect hands.Work 6349.The marquee was up for three days: full length portrait in oils of an unamused three ostrich feathers in the hair, 1924.Work 6194.Travel film frame in sixteen millimetre of a lei placed over a traveller's neck in the late 1960s, Nikon F with a fifty millimetre lens.Work 6185.A gone blue guerrilla fighter, the Silk Road centuries, Kodalith Ortho 6556.Work 6046.A piadina, photograph of a photograph, she watched from behind the nets, Ilford SFX 200.Work 6034.Memorial portrait of postmodern 80s fashion, ministry-grade, complementary colours.Work 6025.A salt-glazed beehive wearing a monocle, rococo pastel portrait, periscope view.Work 5706.A movie poster for a film with one location, minimal, bold type block.Work 5586.A parcel containing a storm in the style of a receipt for the ocean, tintype sheen.Work 5554.