Robert Johnson Mugs
Description: Robert Johnson was an itinerant Delta blues singer and guitarist who lived from 1911 to 1938. He recorded 29 songs between '36 and ‘37 for the American Record Corporation, which released eleven 78rpm records on their Vocalion label during Johnson's lifetime, and one after his death. Like many bluesmen of his day, Johnson plied his craft on street corners and in juke joints, ever rambling and ever lonely, all while writing songs that romanticized that existence. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Johnson accomplished this with such an unprecedented intensity, marrying his starkly expressive vocals with a guitar mastery, that his music has endured beyond his short life.
Description: I will present the most ambitious gallery show I have ever attempted. This show, called “12:06 AM, One Artist’s Response to the A.I. ‘Crisis’”, has challenged every artistic and creative skill I possess and pushed me into realms I have never explored before. Starting as a response to the rapidly emerging A.I. generative models, I began examining what they meant to me. Using a motif, I had been exploring in my writing, the devil at the crossroads as a point of departure. I postulated what guitars designed by the devil would look like, and from that starting point, the show grew.
