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contemporary artists in la Biennale di Venezia issue BREEDERART SERIES | TRIPTYCH, 2019 ACRYLIC AND COMPUTER DRAWING ON CANVAS 5’X22’.

GERALD HUSHLAK
Lives and works in Calgary, Canada
https://www.geraldhushlak.com/ | hushlak@ucalgary.ca

BreederArt is a series of images that represent a career- also manufacture subjects and backgrounds. The signs
long exploration of the marriage of art and technolog y. of meaning are homogenized offering regrowth and
Each image originates from my photographs and, reconstruction within BreederArt through innuendos
regulated to the expectations of evolutionary software, rather than unrelenting classification.
a significant degree of chance, coincidence, accidents of While subject matter differs among series, particular
symmetry and the artist’s hand. forms regularly emerge, among them spindles and twisted
The machine has evolved from slave to partner. face-like spirit figures. Like some sort of gargoyle or
Photographic input comes from many sources and I alien, these entities emerge most clearly from organic

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