Joan’s Dark Aspect at Jameson & Thompson Picture Framers: November 5 - December 20, 2024

Joan's Dark Aspect highlights the work of Jamieson Edson through both Polaroid & screen prints. Edson created the Joan Crawford polaroids using two different Artificial Intelligence engines & techniques. The first technique involves text to image prompts. The second technique involved a different process of inputting various images and having the engine spit back a version that incorporates different elements of each image into one unified image. Once satisfied with an image, Edson uses a Polaroid Lab, a camera that can take a picture of their phone screen to create a Polaroid print.

CMYK printing is a process through which photographic imagery can be reproduced as a screen print. First, a photograph is split into its component colors using Photoshop – cyan, magenta, yellow and “key” (black). The CMYK Joan screen prints, like the Polaroids they are based on, are digital art made manifest. It remains to be seen how AI will ultimately
affect artists and creators but for now, it serves as just one of many tools for Edson. The screen prints embrace the ethos of iteration – something at the heart of photography, screen printing and AI image generation.

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