Creating Ghosts in the Machine - The AI Art of Lanny Quarles

Lanny is one of the OGs of the Post Dogmatist Group and has been doing some mind bending work with artificial intelligence artworks that he posts on his facebook page here facebook.com/lanny.quarles

Lanny Quarles is a multidisciplinary artist and writer living in Dallas, Texas. Over the past 35 years, he has written and published poetry, and used the digital medium for art making.

Quarles is also interested in painting, drawing and other kinds of traditional mark-making, including most recently, his own take on Japanese ink painting (Sumi-e), in which he combines asemic calligraphy with his own experimental abstractions.

His work has been shown at the Nisa Touchon Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico and at Cohn Drennan Contemporary Gallery in Dallas, TX, and even at the Tate, London.

He also curated a national show of digital work displaying the vibrant mixed community of academic and underground artists of which he is a part, and curated a film series highlighting the themes of art and madness at Cohn Drennan Contemporary.

Quarles studied art at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) and at the Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) in Portland, OR. While at UTA, he studied under Jim Pomeroy in the original New Genre classes which combined video art, computer art, and performance art. During his time at UTA, he became a founding member of the Post-Dogmatist art movement.

Quarles’ writing has been published in numerous poetry journals including West Wind Review, Big Table, Shampoo, and publications by Xexoxial Press. His writing was included as the fictional screenplay for a character in film director Gus Van Sant’s only novel, Pink.

Lanny Quarles lives with his partner Kara Quarles and their two dogs Lucy and Molly.