Assembly

"rain rule roll rope rest red run rabbit ran wrong round right robin rock river ring reach read"

The interweb is a series of tubes but the interweb without tubes existed in human construction long before the boobs of big Tech. Paintings burn into the mind's eye, a rollercoaster of morphing symbols spiraling back before we were born. Even a crude symbol scrawled in a bathroom stall is an interstellar feller, an endless scarf. Forget the static, painting isn't smelling funny nor is decoration boring or apolitical - it's yelly and murmur at the same tube.

Adrian liked a comment I made on IG and created a painting based on it. All the paintings in this party sprang from quotes or fragments of language that he used as prompts. In mine I was pressing that wall jewelry is an arcane practice, a portable hole, a suitcase or a pair of winged shoes... For this current exhibition Adrian's paintings are not "wall jewelry" because they are not on the wall, Amanita's walls are left blank. His paintings standing on poles, operate and wiggle more like street signs or people hanging around the gallery space. Viewers must pinball about the paintings to fully read all the imagery that runs off the canvases and onto their frames and over the backs of each painting... The imagery on the frames has a sketchbooky quality but are in fact Schachter's drawings printed on fabric and glued onto the frames. They drift between pictorial and abstract, from classic renderings and designs to doodles. Some lines are bold while many are washy. "The music that flows from my eyes is like currents of electricity, and it powers me, the dreamer of dreams to live"

Imagine if neon was not dependent on a glass tube but more of a floating glowing jelly that could be spread through mid air or hair. Adrian uses AI air gel through our heads. It's big data amalgamation of billions of users making it an ultimate collage jelly. And from these vast pools of influences, he "takes the finest waters from the finest streams" Midjourney, Nano Banana, Seedream, Wan, Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT were all used to push imagery further. And, for Schachter, more entryways, more poetry, more glitches, more interpretations and more room for more people.

This show is about an ancient future vision. A clash of the primitive machine vs the computer clip art machine. More is on the menu and it's invisible. Nerves in the air.

It’s hard to put your finger on it because it is growing and transforming all around you, in fact, the paintings at "Assembly" will be swapped out for new ones, — weekly. Dynamism of change. Symbols don't move — or do play?

– Brian Belott

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Adrian Schachter (1996) is a painter and ceramicist who 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. Adrian employs 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. Schachter has a BFA from the School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York.