The faces that gaze from the otherwise stark walls of The Gallery of Creative Pinellas watch the visitor with a kind of regal indifference; handsome, haunting, beautiful, strong, and self-assured, they are above divisiveness, above judgment, and inhabit a world where anything and everything is possible.
The exhibition is titled Imagine Blackness: Alternate Realities and Collective Dreaming; the portraits were created with artificial intelligence (AI) software, collaboratively by digital artist McArthur Freeman and his wife, Dr. Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman.
They both teach at the University of South Florida. He is an Associate Professor of Video, Animation, and Digital Arts; she is an Associate Professor of Sociology, and Interim Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Recruitment, Retention, and Engagement. Read more
