Opening Reception + Artist Talk: Jason Salavon: History Painting

Jason Salavon: History Painting
opening reception: November 29, 5–7 pm
artist talk: November 30, 2–3 pm
ongoing exhibition: November 29, 2024 – December 28, 2024

TAI Modern presents History Painting, new work by American artist Jason Salavon. Salavon is a pioneering and internationally recognized artist who has created generative and data-driven artwork since the 1990s. History Painting employs a host of “custom software, imaginings, and elbow grease” to reinterpret the history of the universe via eight-hundred idiosyncratic encyclopedic entries created by the artist.

With History Painting, Salavon debuts new processes that stretch and contract the understanding of generative AI, beyond its daily application into a technically dense and highly aesthetic medium in which he uses to paint these digital canvases. He says, “AI learns a universe of possibilities and it likes to stay in the center of that universe. We’ve created a tool that forces the AI out of that universe by modifying a model to make it do things that it’s not supposed to do.”

TAI Modern will open History Painting: Jason Salavon with an artist’s reception on Friday, November 29, from 5 to 7 pm. We hope you will join us on Saturday, November 30 for a gallery walkthrough with the artist, from 2 to 3 pm.