The Goldmark Cultural Center’s Ruth Andres Gallery presents “Caution: The Intersection of Man, AI, and Art”, an exhibition of new paintings by Goldmark artist Tony Strickland.

The exhibition is on display from 2/24 through 3/14.

About the Exhibition

The Caution series is a very significant new body of work in my career and development as an artist. It represents 32 years as a fine artist, with my first large scale canvas bing titled “Caution’ and produced in 1992. The painting was a large 6’x5’ composition composed of 12” equally placed diagonal yellow and black sripes. The painting utilized a very expressive technique and was mixed media using oil paint, tar, burlap, sand, and other materials.

This new series represents the intersection of man, art and A.I. as I have been on a creative exploration of AI technology since March 2023. The concept and inspiration behind the work was to revisit the “Caution” subject matter, but create compositions based on my prompts utilizing MidJourney. This approach offered me many different ways to manipulate my prompts to achieve the desired and unexpected visual options. The result is a micro series of 4 large paintings that tell a story and take the viewer along for this artistic journey. Although each piece is related in subject matter, the final paintings are completely different and will be stunning in their totality in the intimate space of the Ruth Andres Gallery. The work also represents the moral quagmire AI has created for humanity. Although AI offers tremendous productivity and efficiency gains, we must also deal with the very real risk that man has engineered our own demise by creating a technology where for the first time in our existence, humans will not be at the top of the intelligence food chain. This means we must maintain and utilize extreme “Caution” with the implemetation of the technology as it seeks to obtain AGI (Artificial General Intelligence). 

-Tony Strickland