Art of Don DeLeva

Will we build an algorithm for the concept of  wild Animal, like a Coyote, Wolf, Bear? Will we  keep killing in the program since it does not need to eat? WIll we build an Alpha - Coyote that will domesticating it's pack? If AI don't eat what will happen to the furtility of the forests ? DeLeva...

portrait of Ada Lovelace. first finish 4.25.2019. Acrylic on wood panel 16"x16" portrait of Ada Lovelace. first finish Rotated  4.25.2019. Acrylic on wood panel 16"x16" The consistent persistence of Ada Lovelace. Second finish 4.25.2019. Acrylic on wood panel 16"x16". I have been battling with this painting for the last three weeks. I had finished it last night but it just kept bugging me, thus the first finish and first title. I couldn't decide what way was down. I wanted to get the feeling of Math, grids and punch cards clouding Ada's thoughts. It kinda worked but it was way to literal and it needed the flow and emotion of being electrified by Math and the Decision machine. So I used 60 grit sand paper to bring the emotion and electricity of her creativity. Creativity is a fragile fleeting thing and full of energy even software developers are electrified by it' s presence. Thank you Ada!!

These block prints are portraits of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Former First Lady of the United States and Cameron Howe Played by: Mackenzie Davis; TV show: Halt and Catch Fire Neo Cubist block print portrait of Jackie Kennedy blue:  linocut print on lana cotton rag paper, 5"x7" 4/2019 Neo Cubist block print portrait of Cameron Howe blue:  linocut print on lana cotton rag paper, 5"x7" 4/2019 Neo Cubist block print Cameron Howe multi-color:  linocut print on lana cotton rag paper, 5"x7" 4/2019 Neo Cubist block print portrait of Jackie Kennedy:  linocut print on lana cotton rag paper, 5"x7" 4/2019 These are the first prints I have pulled since the I was given an etching press. They are also the first consecutive pulled prints since graduate school.  My goal is to start using the press and create prints on a consistan basis. 

Untitled  20x20 still in progress. This painting is in progress, I would say it is around 70% complete. As I start to explain and define with words on my website what it is I am doing it seems like my painting is changing. I know this sounds obvious but seeing the manifestation of words into pictorial representation is interesting.

Be for the turn. B4 the Turn: 5" x 7" , acrylic painting on wood panel. This painting was more of a historic time marker for me. I wanted to designate that this painting was created before the birth of  of AI. Don’t blame me! The Jeanie is out of the bottle. This Dali like, art work notes this present time in history, before cybernetic enhancement have gone commercial.  “B4 The Turn”, literally means, before the turn of accepting commercial grade neural devices as a part of normal everyday commerce and exchange. In this cubist painting I have combined a portrait with geometry to suggest a surreal impression of what a synthetic, analytic and enhanced thought might look like to the Transhuman cyborg like artist.

Here are two works I am working on since the 2019 Museum of Northwest Art auction entry. This is a linoleum plate. It will be a color plate .   This is the 3 phase of one of my Neo Cubist paintings. My education is in printing, my roots are in drawing and I taught myself painting. A few weeks ago a good friend gave me an etching press and I am starting to print linocuts. I see this moving towards etchings at some point, but for now I have to get my printing work flow down.

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