Owens Daniels, “A.I. Art Innovation”
Exhibition Dates: July 2-29, 2023
Gallery Hop: Friday, July 7, 7-10 pm
Art Crush: Friday, July 21, 7-9 pm
Artists’ Forum, “A Conversation on A.I.”: Sunday, July 23, 2-4 pm
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Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) and Adobe Photoshop’s new release, Generative Fill, are both technologies that play a role in the creative process. As creatives, we coexist and collaborate with these tools, but ultimately, it’s the work we produce that receives praise or criticism. When using these technologies, it’s important to focus on the work rather than the tools themselves.
AI art is undoubtedly impressive, as it can create imaginative and captivating worlds. However, without a human connection, it lacks depth, feeling, and passion. Ultimately, it remains nothing more than lines, shadows, and colors, like an elaborate pen without a hand, or a paint brush without an artist’s eye.
“Body & Soul” and “Joe Cool”
Owens Daniels is a photographer based in Winston Salem, North Carolina who happens to be a creative visual artist. He received a 2021 Kenan Institute Creative Catalyst Fellowship at Reynolda House of American Art and was the awardee for the 2019 Lead Artist for the Presence Absence Project.
His vision is to create artwork that builds bridges, promotes cultural exchanges, and artistic endeavors between organizations and institutions that speak to the diverse communities they serve.
His career started at the U.S. Army Photographic School of Cartography, learning the basics of photography and photo printing. In addition to his formal training, he continues to work as a freelance photographer with a distinctive and intimate photojournalistic signature style in visual storytelling which has led to various opportunities that include artist in residences, a Fellowship of American Art, public art Installations, grants and varied other commissions.
“Bass” and “Funky Drummer”
Owens uses the visual arts to express his interpretation of the world, and photography to open unexplored spaces between the subject and viewer exposing them both to a world of opportunities and experiences. This objective can best be obtained with a focus on our commonalities which keeps us in the moment and stops us from regretting the past or fretting about the future.
Owens Daniels’ “A.I. Art Innovation” blends A.I. technology with human creativity.
This exhibition is free and open to the public.
“A Conversation on A.I.,” Artists’ Forum: Sunday, July 23rd, 2-4pm
“I don’t want to be on the ash heap of creativity… Therefore, I CHANGE!”
Owens Daniels speaks about the new works in his Artworks Gallery exhibition, “A.I.: Art Innovation.”
Come out and connect with new artworks exploring the relationship between technology and artist Owens Daniels. Daniels will lead a conversation with creatives Leo Rucker, Nathan Ross Freeman, Leo Morello, and many more artists and community friends!
These new creations represent Winston-Salem’s first Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) art exhibition with over 40 different works from the styles of Dali, Picasso, Thomas Hart Benton, and many other artists reinterpreting Jazz and Blues.
This event is free and open to the public.