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The electric canvases of Jin Meyerson (b. 1972) are densely populated with chaotic abstract
passages and glimpses of photorealistic scenes. His paintings present what the artist describes
as an “aesthetic schizophrenia,” in which the logic of digital processes is applied to the analog
realm of painting—images are compressed, distorted, duplicated, stretched, and dragged. The
overall gestalt of the canvases evokes the mania of our hyper-networked and mediated
contemporary culture. The Korean-American artist, who lives in Seoul, sources reference
material from printed media and television—images of …