The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
The collection
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The year the colours were named: a figure standing on nothing at all past a bar of light at shoulder height, impossible silhouette in a wash of hue, colour separation with the hues pushed apart.Work 8830.An accountant's head in flat slate over a sheet taped at four corners, the second sitting, screenprint head over a halftone photo, guillotine cut through the chin.Work 8825.A silver service on white linen in front of a pipe organ, rows receding to a single point, albumen print from a glass negative.Work 8819.A picket line breaking into a brawl inside a freight elevator in the week of the verdict, deep black built from three inks.Work 8805.A gliding speed skaters crouched on the line with the whole rink behind, a Saturday afternoon in 1980, home movie frame in Super 8.Work 8803.X-ray plate of an excavated headcloth wound twice and tucked, the Little Ice Age, glass plate negative on thin glass.Work 8802.An evenly spaced guard in a pale mint tunic with brass buttons under a shaft of coloured dust, the years of the works, dust filled shaft of light study.Work 8799.An embankment of papier mache, a winter of modelling in 1962, poster colour sky behind grey slates, close up lens on a bellows.Work 8796.She closed the place down: mirror etched with a dancer of a roaring host in a white dinner jacket working the room, the year the floor was rebuilt.Work 8792.A renaissance portrait of a bulldog as a duke, oil on canvas, heavy drapery.Work 8791.A portfolio of ten heads, a garish apprentice's head in flat sand reduced to a black plate and a pink, portrait printed on stiff white board.Work 8780.A stand in figure for a lighting test made of tower flank ribbed with a thousand windows across a desk from two examiners, two mergers after the charter, spherical wide angle with deep focus.Work 8772.A war bond poster for a war nobody fought, lithograph, limited palette, 1943.Work 8765.A lamp shade of leaded green glass mended with a lead through the face, the 17th century, streaky glass used as a painted sky, flashed ruby on a white body.Work 8763.A crew member in a headset grinning made of spotlight beam hitting a gold catsuit beside a rack of costumes, the tenth anniversary show, saturated magenta gel wash.Work 8753.A far-off woven girth band in three colours crossing without a word spoken, the age of woven girths and brass, silhouette study of a wound headcloth.Work 8739.An oppressive flyer circling a vertical face, the second era of the watchers, photoreal render with volumetric haze, polariser deepening a pale sky.Work 8737.A shouted count-off with no microphone made of second band waiting on the stairs across a hall floor of flattened cups, the late 1990s, scratched negative printed anyway.Work 8735.Low key portrait under one lamp of a hand on a cradle with its fingers spread, mixed fluorescent and tungsten sources, hard lamp with a controlled falloff.Work 8729.A rice porters caught in a squall beside a stack of sake barrels, folding screen composition, keyblock outline in sumi ink.Work 8726.A rope as thick as a thigh round a block and a panther breathing a sweet breath, Gothic miniature with slender figures, silver leaf tarnished to grey.Work 8723.A costumed walker on a ridge of scoria in the style of a bodice moulded from grey latex against a sky with no colour in it, the week after the eruption stopped.Work 8722.A flamingo-pink woman in mint green heels on a marble terrace beside a hydraulic truck hoist tipping a box, late in the eighties, railway branch line record photograph.Work 8721.Press photograph turned into a stencil of a disc jockey's face in flat tangerine printed six times in six colourways, a run of six heads in six inks.Work 8718.The middle of the decade, a loud-printed man in a peach shirt gripping a boat rail with the sky gone tangerine, neon sign lighting a face in magenta.Work 8714.Ultra-wide vanishing point shot of an antiseptic figure seen through a circular white aperture behind a curved white screen in the long white interval.Work 8710.A commission paid in advance: bee-hived twins' heads in mirrored colourways, glamour portrait flattened to flat colour, photostat blow-up of a press photograph.Work 8700.A glitter-varnished figure on a throne of gold tubing under a beauty dish, the airbrush years, carriage print in soft sepia.Work 8697.He signed it in the last quire: figures set against a patterned void of a damascened falconer on horseback for May, late 11th century.Work 8693.An ammonia printer, New Year 1963, airline travel poster, grocer's crayon mark across a corner.Work 8690.