STATION is delighted to announce Marian Tubbs’ sixth solo exhibition with the gallery new images, an exhibition of assemblage painting that centres on methods of apparatus-driven and gestural image production.
In these new works, Tubbs’ digital paintings are placed in dialogue with AI scenes by way of lenticular photographic printing. Images determined by machine generation are translated by the artist into watery paintings that spill and seep into each other. While working with technology specifically available today, the works reflect on premonitions of early 20th century surrealist painters who created dreamy images as an escape from the horrors of world war.
new images has femme colour palettes colliding with the digital, suggesting a space for sensitive meditations on science-fictive fertilities and multispecies survival. Despite ‘artificial’ mediations, the works in the exhibition read as romantic and emotionally charged. The artwork titles coalesce to perform a poem seemingly unaffected by deep learning. Through new images, we are reminded of Tubbs’ love of the dialectics between emotion and reason, organic life and machining.