David Salle - “Attention is a Fleeting Resource”

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David Salle is one of the leading postmodern painters of the last forty-five years, whose layered, colliding images will make you question everything you thought you knew about how images hold meaning. What most people don't expect: David has spent the last several years training artificial intelligence on his own body of work, then using what it generates as the raw material for new paintings — not to automate art, but to find a new language for it that you've never seen before. The results break every rule of anatomy, continuity, and logic, and they are unlike anything else being made right now. Seated on one of John Chamberlain's iconic foam couches, he and host Alexandra Fairweather…