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I have long since given up trying to wrap my head around how
Siebren Versteeg makes work. It involves computer code to automate computers
into making art (I think). Which alone is the kind of thing that one can easily
make a compelling art career out of. In the past, the results of his
“algorithmically generated images” was a mush of wide pho-brush strokes in an often-muddy
green palate that would be off-putting if it didn’t so mimic the result of lots
of young, popular human painters. The new work has a palate like the past work
but now forms star bursts of angular strokes that are downright painterly. It
is so aesthetically pleasing that I find it harder to believe the production of
the paintings are completely random, but then again who knows if it ever was?
What I do know is the wonder of Siebren’s work hasn’t grown old, and the
results seem to get more and more appealing. Which ups the ante for process-based
painting, as well as what it means to make art. As with much of Siebren’s work,
it raises the question does your computer dream of electric sheep?
Through May 28th
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