Airplane Mode, installation view
Airplane Mode, installation view
Airplane Mode 2, acrylic, puff paint and collage on canvas, 66 x 101.6 cm, 2024
Airplane Mode 2, detail
Airplane Mode, installation view
Her Name is my Password, acrylic and puff paint on canvas, 180 x 120 cm, 2024
Her Name is my Password, detail
Stable Diffusion, acrylic and puff paint on canvas, 180 x 120 cm, 2024
Stable Diffusion, detail
Homebrew, installation view
Homebrew, acrylic, puff paint and collage on canvas, 180 x 120 cm, 2024
Homebrew, detail
How the Boy Configure, acrylic, puff paint and collage on canvas, 180 x 120 cm, 2024
How the Boy Configure, detail
Painting at a Distance 2, installation view
Painting at a Distance 2, acrylic, puff paint and collage on canvas, 40.8 x 101.6 cm, 2024
Painting at a Distance 2, detail
Manifestation Painting, installation view
Manifestation Painting, acrylic and puff paint on canvas, 66 x 101.6 cm, 2024
Manifestation Painting, detail
Concentration Without Effort, installation view
Concentration Without Effort, acrylic and collage on polyester, 50.8 x 101.6 cm, 2024
Concentration Without Effort, detail
Pastoral Scotopic, installation view
Pastoral Scotopic, acrylic on polyester, 50.8 x 101.6 cm, 2024
Pastoral Scotopic, detail
Airplane Mode addresses the structure of feeling produced by the developing complexities of technological acceleration. Walking a line between sentimentality, anxiety and hope his paintings are sympathetic vessels; things downstream of digital media, where data flows intermingle with neurological excitement and the clunky charm of the handmade.
Miniature houses manifest like fungus out of stained abstract landscapes; herds of cows in a seemingly liminal space, bear the eerie uniformity of cloning experiments as if viewed from a passing train; and shirts woven from neural network-like spiderweb patterns, glow, in environments of soft decay and blooming emergence. Raw canvas is left to absorb abstract acrylic washes before intricate airbrushing, collage techniques and 3D puff paint detailing protrudes from the surface.
Crosby’s work filters algorithmically driven image culture through the escapist pastoral tropes of a simpler reality. Using a psychedelic configuration of perspectives, the micro and the macro constantly shift and muddle into one another. This new body of work draws on the fragmented, non-linear critical media theories by Vilém Flusser (1920 – 1991, Czech Republic and Brazil) and Berlin-based writer Caroline Busta (b. 1978, US). AI technology is embraced to painterly reconfigure the familiar, producing emergent properties in a landscape where an attenuation to vibe is as good a light as any to guide us through the mist.