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Ron English
Delusional Frames
The First in a New Drawing Exhibition Series
Opening Reception: January 31st, 6 pm to 9 pm
Artist Talk on A.I – 7pm 8pm
Delusional Frames marks the first chapter in a new drawing-focused exhibition series by Ron English. This show pulls back the curtain on the drawing process behind his recent Delusionville video series, offering a rare look at how ideas move from hand to screen.
For this body of work, English created hundreds of drawings while developing a new series of AI-assisted videos. These sketches map out characters, expressions, distortions, and visual rhythms, capturing the building blocks of his visual thinking. This exhibition brings that process into the open, presenting a curated selection of the original frames and studies that helped shape the finished videos.
Each drawing played a role in training artificial intelligence to work within the visual logic of English’s mind. Acting like cognitive seeds, the images feed the machine the warped iconography, pop-culture mashups, and surreal symbolism that have defined his work for decades. These pieces form the DNA of a visual language moving from human imagination into machine interpretation. What visitors see here is not just the result, but the structure underneath it.
The collaboration between artist and technology is not distant or mechanical. It is personal and often strange. These drawings capture the moment before the machine begins to hallucinate, revealing how a singular artistic vision becomes a set of patterns that an AI can learn from, remix, and transform. In that way, the exhibition reads like a psychological portrait, tracing the humor, politics, obsessions, and subconscious loops that run through English’s work.
Presented as a grid of frames, sketches, and experimental studies, Delusional Frames invites viewers to step inside the artist’s mind as it is reflected back through a machine. The show asks questions about authorship, originality, and what happens when imagination becomes training data.
This exhibition also launches an ongoing gallery series, as part of the program, English will participate in a live-streamed artist talk discussing this process in depth. He draws a clear parallel between contemporary AI tools and the printing presses of the turn of the century, seeing both as technologies that expand artistic reach rather than replace the artist.
These are not just works on paper. They are blueprints for future images, and the quiet ghosts inside future machines.
