SPRING/BREAK Art Show — Los Angeles, 2022

Necessary Illusions

First collaboration between Stillion & Board after six years working together, exhibited at SPRING/BREAK Art Show at Skylight Culver City, Los Angeles in February 2022.

Stillion’s paintings of face jugs, poppies, and houseflies evoke decomposition and the animation of inanimate objects — referencing African American pottery from 19th-century South Carolina. Board’s custom software manipulates and animates the imagery through code and algorithm, creating a living dialogue between traditional painting and generative computation.

Featured in the “HEARSAY:HERESY” themed exhibition alongside 50+ curated shows. The installation bridges physical painting with real-time digital processing, questioning the boundary between the handmade and the algorithmically generated.