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Amanita

Apples & Oranges

Adrian Schachter

313 Bowery, New York, NY
March 15, 2024 – April 21, 2024

AO1
SCHA.223.2024
Adrian Schachter, Birdscape study , 2024, Acrylic, oil, and tempera on canvas, 36 x 48 in 91.5 x 122 cm
AO2
SCHA.184.2024
Adrian Schachter, Kimonos/Fellini’s Casanova, 2024, Acrylic, oil, and tempera on canvas, 8 x 8 in 20.3 x 20.3 cm
SCHA.194.2024
Adrian Schachter, Relatively low hanging fruit, 2024, Acrylic, oil, and tempera on canvas, 12 x 6 in 30.5 x 15 cm
SCHA.195.2024
Adrian Schachter, After Bror Meyer’s skaters, 2024, Acrylic, oil, tempera and glitter on canvas, 6 x 12 in 15 x 30.5 cm
AO3
SCHA.196.2024
Adrian Schachter, After Walker Evans (freckled girl), 2024, Acrylic, oil, and tempera on canvas, 12 x 9 in 30.5 x 23
SCHA.259.2024
Adrian Schachter, Rotheneuf rocks/Bror Meyer’s skaters, 2024, Acrylic, oil, and tempera on canvas, 36 1/2 x 48 in 92.5 x 122 cm
AO4
SCHA.258.2024
Adrian Schachter, Halcyon macaques, 2024, Acrylic, oil, and tempera on canvas, 84 x 83 1/2 in 213.5 x 212 cm
AO5
SCHA.226.2024
Adrian Schachter, After Gutmann’s diver, 1, 2024, Acrylic, oil, and tempera on canvas , 9 x 12 in 23 x 30.5 cm
SCHA.225.2024
Adrian Schachter, After Gutmann’s diver, 2, 2024, Acrylic, oil, and tempera on canvas , 9 x 12 in 23 x 30.5 cm
AO6
SCHA.220.2024
Adrian Schachter, Meeting 1, 2024, Acrylic, oil, and tempera on canvas, 87 x 87 in 221 x 221 cm
SCHA.218.2024
Adrian Schachter, Village after Mehretu/anime horse legs , 2024, Acrylic, oil, and tempera on canvas, 71 1/2 x 88 in 181.5 x 223.5 cm
SCHA.213.2024
Adrian Schachter, Training wheels , 2024, Acrylic, oil, and tempera on canvas, 27 x 152 in 68.5 x 386 cm
AO7
AO8
SCHA.229.2024
Adrian Schachter, Box vase 1 , 2024, Glazed ceramic and enamel, 6 x 11 x 6 in 15 x 28 x 15 cm
SCHA.231.2024
Adrian Schachter, Butterfly vase, 2024, Glazed ceramic, 9 x 7 1/2 x 9 in 23 x 19 x 23 cm
SCHA.242.2024
Adrian Schachter, Alphabet bowl 1, 2024, Glazed ceramic, 6 1/2 x 7 x 7 in 16.5 x 18 x 18 cm
AO9
SCHA.233.2024
Adrian Schachter, Screen vessel 2, 2024, Glazed ceramic, 7 x 14 x 12 1/2 in 18 x 35.5 x 32 cm
SCHA.252.2024
Adrian Schachter, Bowl with human feet, 2024, Glazed ceramic and enamel, 7 1/2 x 11 1/2 x 10 in 19 x 29 x 25.5 cm
AO10

Overview

Amanita is pleased to present Apples & Oranges, a solo exhibition by Adrian Schachter. This is Adrian’s second solo show with Amanita.


Bugs Bunny once said, “Comparing me to a regular rabbit is like comparing a carrot to a cactus. Sure, they're both plants, but only one's worth the chase." Analogizing is in our nature. Here is another one: arbitrary as it may seem, if an AI entity is a person, I would call the soul the model and its environment might be the data set it’s trained on… This is to suggest that we interpret the world around us by means of our internal code. External influences, sure, but we have varying degrees of autonomy in collecting our own data points. I may not be alone in thinking my model could do with an update, my results might spin out. You send a stone skipping across a pond and it ends up in the ocean.

Random forests in AI is an ‘ensemble learning’ algorithm designed to ask for the individual opinions of various ‘decision trees,’ (branching models for decision-making) which are then combined to come up with the most robust answer. Well, seeing the same tree twice in a forest means you’re lost. Here you will see me running away from the trees that I just saw… looking for loopholes where a tree might splinter and become host to a variety of other plants.

This is my browser, but challenged into real life on frictive surfaces. Sigmar Polke said “history is my material; I use it the same way that I use clay.” These are found lumps of clay... I am staging them a certain way alongside certain actors (other lumps) I’m not telling a story; I’m sharing a collection of observations and expressions that may be disparate fruits, but were picked from the same tree.

— Adrian Schachter

Adrian Schachter (born 1996, NYC) is a contemporary visual artist based in NYC. He holds a BFA with honors from the School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York, NY. Adrian researches mythology, obscure phenomena, and anomalies to challenge the notion of absolute truth beyond the boundaries of conventional reality. He is particularly interested in the Medieval era, when religious and esoteric beliefs overshadowed the influence of science. For over two years, Schachter has employed Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, deepening his exploration of unconventionally gathering and understanding information. While embracing new technologies, Schachter upholds the integrity of his craft by referencing and drawing inspiration from history.