Gretchen Andrew is known for her distinctive fusion of traditional artistic mediums—such as photography and oil painting—with cutting-edge technologies, including robotics, algorithms, and artificial intelligence.
She's gained recognition for her playful hacks on major art world and political institutions, including Frieze, The Whitney Biennial, Artforum, The Turner Prize, and the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election.
Her latest series, Facetune Portraits, pushes this exploration further, employing custom robotics and oil painting to ask:"What happens when we take the beauty-inclined A.I. algorithms popular on social media and bring them into the physical world and traditional portraiture?". The resulting works expose the tension between our authentic selves and the idealized versions that A.I. suggests we should become.
