London’s New Generation of Abstract Painters

“Juggling odd jobs is not just common for most young artists in New York, it is an initiation rite—an age-old gauntlet through which all strivers must pass. For a long time, the resources proffered by the city offset the sacrifices required to live here. In New York, contemporary art is palpable, plentiful and mostly free. There are elite colleges, world-class institutions, even old-school artist communities like Westbeth. You can make it here. But [there's] a new set of challenges facing young, city-bound creatives today, particularly those trying to course-correct careers waylaid by the pandemic and its economic aftershocks…”

Surrealism in the Age of AI

Surrealism in the Age of AI

“In recent years, a growing number of painters have been unpacking the same themes of feminine etiquette and presentation at the heart of Demure Fall and the Venn-diagrammed microtrends before it, from Cottagecore’s playful reclaiming of farm fashion to the alt-right fundamentalism of Tradwives. But for these artists, something bigger is in the air…”

Painters Were Obsessing Over the ‘Demure’ Trend Long Before TikTok Did

“In recent years, painters such as Jadé Fadojutimi, Rachel Jones and Flora Yukhnovich have each become true-blue art stars—the kind whose work can fetch seven figures at auction—while like-minded painters such as Sarah Cunningham, Li Hei Di, Pam Evelyn, Francesca Mollett and Sophia Loeb appear poised to follow a similar trajectory…”

“Now, exactly one century removed from the genesis of this art form, we find ourselves contending with the emergence of another: art made by artificial intelligence, or AI. In all kinds of little ways, the latter feels eerily evocative of the former. Like Surrealism, AI art is automatic and disembodied, at home in the space between language and image. Its schemes are described as dreams, and one of its prominent programs is named after Salvador Dalí. Even the idea of an invisible electronic apparatus that transforms ones and zeros into bizarro images sounds like something a Surrealist would cook up…”

“Now, exactly one century removed from the genesis of this art form, we find ourselves contending with the emergence of another: art made by artificial intelligence, or AI. In all kinds of little ways, the latter feels eerily evocative of the former. Like Surrealism, AI art is automatic and disembodied, at home in the space between language and image. Its schemes are described as dreams, and one of its prominent programs is named after Salvador Dalí. Even the idea of an invisible electronic apparatus that transforms ones and zeros into bizarro images sounds like something a Surrealist would cook up…”

Collectors stampeding to Lucy Bull's 'visionary' abstractions

Young artists on why they are sticking it out in New York

“Some artists prefer to keep home and work separate. Not Lucy Bull. In-progress paintings are everywhere in the 34-year-old’s lofted, two-storey home in East Los Angeles: on the walls of her street-level studio, yes, but also in the kitchen, on a couch, even beside her bed one floor above. The artist’s painstaking process makes working on several pieces at once a prudent use of time, but it is more than that. Bull likes to live with her paintings, so that she can constantly flit between them with fresh eyes. Some she labours over for months; others come “fast and weird”, she says. “They’re like the good shits,” Bull jokes of the latter group…”

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