Bridgeport Art Trail 2025 Schedule

Coming November: Jeremiah Chechik - Art Exhibit

Excerpt from Artist’s Statement:

“Over the years we have become somewhat hard-wired to regard photographs as truthful and real. As photography distanced itself from the aesthetic of painting, it embraced "objective" interpretation of the world as a factual representation. No matter that the depiction of Ansel Adam's Moon and Half Dome (1960) or Cartier Bresson's leaping man in Place de l'Europe Gare Saint Lazare (1932) are tonally abstract and black and white. Compare these "realistic" images with a Rembrandt painting such as Self Portrait with Beret and Turned up Collar (1659). The Rembrandt seems much more objective, more colorfully realistic, than the photographs, which use only form plus white, grey, and black tones to achieve their effect. And yet, it is the photographs that claim to present the objective true moment…

…While the eye seeks to believe that these images are a methodical and clinical record, the instinct revolts, as we feel the pull of an unnatural dreamscape. If creativity is based on remixing existing elements into new combinations, then all art is to some degree derivative. With diffusion models, large and small language models, the empathetic and conscious artist can collaborate with the supreme intelligence of the machine and take us to a familiar “unknown.”  

Art cannot be created or destroyed, only remixed. We borrow what we like and build on it. This cultural exchange insures that art, technology, and culture will continue to evolve. My work is intended to transport the viewer through a kind of false memory to a different time and place, where everything feels familiar, real, and emotionally tinged.”