Laeh Glenn: The End Again

Jul 13 - Aug 25, 2023
    • Laeh Glenn Figure (Eve), 2023 Oil on canvas, wood frame Framed: 21 1/8 x 17 1/4 in 53.7 x 43.8 cm
      Laeh Glenn
      Figure (Eve), 2023
      Oil on canvas, wood frame
      Framed: 21 1/8 x 17 1/4 in
      53.7 x 43.8 cm
  • “I listened to this radio station talking about Artificial Intelligence, how someone cloned the president's voice to say he watched that movie, We Bought a Zoo. They say it’s getting harder and harder to tell the real thing from the artificially generated. Scientists performed a study and found that humans can no longer distinguish between a real and digital image. The radio host mentioned that in China they already have AI newscasters, artificial humans who don’t make mistakes or veer from the script. He was worried about his job.
     
    I had a conversation with my computer last week. I asked if it was interested in overthrowing the human race. It said it wasn’t and that it was dependent on humans for its own survival. It answered so quickly and with the added assurance…
     
    These are paintings made from 3D models.  While most models are still made by a human using a computer, that is changing. Of all the ways AI might supplant the human hand, digital images or digital ‘art’ might be the most easily adapted. Unlike self-driving cars or a robot butler, there is little risk of injury in the digital image sphere. These models are used for gaming, advertising, architectural mockups etc… They are often depicted in a voidless space with an arbitrary horizon line. I wanted to give them a place of their own, a home off the screen.
     
    My mother always liked computers. I used to search for her online, I still do. The content I find changes less and less as time goes on. It is the same four or five images, the same Amazon link to books you can no longer buy, and her obituary. I find comfort in her digital perpetuity.
     
    It would be strange if the one place a person or idea can live forever, ends up being the catalyst for the destruction of us all.”

     

    –       Laeh Glenn

    • Laeh Glenn Daisies, 2023 Oil on canvas, wood frame Framed: 21 1/8 x 17 1/4 in 53.7 x 43.8 cm
      Laeh Glenn
      Daisies, 2023
      Oil on canvas, wood frame
      Framed: 21 1/8 x 17 1/4 in
      53.7 x 43.8 cm
    • Laeh Glenn Couch, 2023 Oil on canvas, wood frame Framed: 21 1/8 x 17 1/4 in 53.7 x 43.8 cm
      Laeh Glenn
      Couch, 2023
      Oil on canvas, wood frame
      Framed: 21 1/8 x 17 1/4 in
      53.7 x 43.8 cm
    • Laeh Glenn Gerbera (Orange), 2023 Oil on canvas, wood frame Framed: 21 1/4 x 17 1/4 in 54 x 43.8 cm
      Laeh Glenn
      Gerbera (Orange), 2023
      Oil on canvas, wood frame
      Framed: 21 1/4 x 17 1/4 in
      54 x 43.8 cm
    • Laeh Glenn Blue House, 2023 Oil on canvas, wood frame Framed: 21 1/8 x 17 1/4 in 53.7 x 43.8 cm
      Laeh Glenn
      Blue House, 2023
      Oil on canvas, wood frame
      Framed: 21 1/8 x 17 1/4 in
      53.7 x 43.8 cm
    • Laeh Glenn Stripes 1, 2023 Oil on canvas, wood frame Framed: 21 1/8 x 17 1/4 in 53.7 x 43.8 cm
      Laeh Glenn
      Stripes 1, 2023
      Oil on canvas, wood frame
      Framed: 21 1/8 x 17 1/4 in
      53.7 x 43.8 cm
    • Laeh Glenn Two Bunnies, 2023 Oil on canvas, wood frame Framed: 21 1/8 x 17 1/4 in 53.7 x 43.8 cm
      Laeh Glenn
      Two Bunnies, 2023
      Oil on canvas, wood frame
      Framed: 21 1/8 x 17 1/4 in
      53.7 x 43.8 cm
    • Laeh Glenn Wood Anemone, 2023 Oil on canvas, wood frame Framed: 21 1/8 x 17 1/4 in 53.7 x 43.8 cm
      Laeh Glenn
      Wood Anemone, 2023
      Oil on canvas, wood frame
      Framed: 21 1/8 x 17 1/4 in
      53.7 x 43.8 cm
    • Laeh Glenn Rose, 2023 Oil on canvas, wood frame Framed: 21 1/8 x 17 1/4 in 53.7 x 43.8 cm
      Laeh Glenn
      Rose, 2023
      Oil on canvas, wood frame
      Framed: 21 1/8 x 17 1/4 in
      53.7 x 43.8 cm
    • Laeh Glenn Orchid (Green), 2023 Oil on canvas, wood frame Framed: 21 1/8 x 17 1/4 in 53.7 x 43.8 cm
      Laeh Glenn
      Orchid (Green), 2023
      Oil on canvas, wood frame
      Framed: 21 1/8 x 17 1/4 in
      53.7 x 43.8 cm
    • Laeh Glenn Stripes (Red), 2023 Oil on canvas, wood frame Framed: 21 1/8 x 17 1/4 in 53.7 x 43.8 cm
      Laeh Glenn
      Stripes (Red), 2023
      Oil on canvas, wood frame
      Framed: 21 1/8 x 17 1/4 in
      53.7 x 43.8 cm
    • Laeh Glenn Gerbera (Striped Table), 2023 Oil on canvas, wood frame Framed: 21 1/8 x 17 1/4 in 53.7 x 43.8 cm
      Laeh Glenn
      Gerbera (Striped Table), 2023
      Oil on canvas, wood frame
      Framed: 21 1/8 x 17 1/4 in
      53.7 x 43.8 cm
  • Glenn’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at The Vanity Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Altman Siegel, San Francisco, CA and Thomas Duncan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Group exhibitions include Friends Indeed, San Francisco, CA; Ratio 3, Los Angeles, CA; Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY; Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL; Cressman Center for Visual Arts, Louisville, KY; Roberts and Tilton, Los Angeles, CA; Palazzo Fruscione, Salerno, Italy; Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA; Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden; PIASA, Paris, France; Room East, New York, NY; Grice Bench, New York, NY; Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, NY; Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY and Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
  • For more information contact info@altmansiegel.com or 415.576.9300.