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Peter Walsh
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Peter Walsh @walshpeter.bsky.social · 4d
Great discussions at the artists talk at MijaWorksNY in Williamsburg for the show “Femm Holy Waves.” Works by Emily Wisniewski, Elizabeth Condon, Vandana Jain, Rachel Kahn and Mija Jung. Visiting hours Tuesday-Thursday 12pm-6pm through November 13. 29 Montrose Avenue, Brooklyn, NY.
Great discussions at the artists talk at MijaWorksNY in Williamsburg for the show “Femm Holy Waves.” Works by Emily Wisniewski, Elizabeth Condon, Vandana Jain, Rachel Kahn and Mija Jung. Visiting hours Tuesday-Thursday 12pm-6pm through November 13. 29 Montrose Avenue, Brooklyn, NY. Art by Mija Jung and Elizabeth Condon. Great discussions at the artists talk at MijaWorksNY in Williamsburg for the show “Femm Holy Waves.” Works by Emily Wisniewski, Elizabeth Condon, Vandana Jain, Rachel Kahn and Mija Jung. Visiting hours Tuesday-Thursday 12pm-6pm through November 13. 29 Montrose Avenue, Brooklyn, NY. Painting by Elizabeth Condon.
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Peter Walsh @walshpeter.bsky.social · 6d
Made it to Ben Shahn's retrospective exhibit "On Non-Conformity" at the Jewish Museum in NYC. Very timely. And well-curated with historical documents, printed materials and some of his reference images. Closes Sunday, October 26. There's a book if you miss the show.
Made it to Ben Shahn's retrospective exhibit "On Non-Conformity" at the Jewish Museum in NYC. Very timely. And well-curated with historical documents, printed materials and some of his reference images. Closes Sunday, October 26. There's a book if you miss the show. "The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti," 1931-1932. Made it to Ben Shahn's retrospective exhibit "On Non-Conformity" at the Jewish Museum in NYC. Very timely. And well-curated with historical documents, printed materials and some of his reference images. Closes Sunday, October 26. There's a book if you miss the show. "East Side Soap Box," 1936. Made it to Ben Shahn's retrospective exhibit "On Non-Conformity" at the Jewish Museum in NYC. Very timely. And well-curated with historical documents, printed materials and some of his reference images. Closes Sunday, October 26. There's a book if you miss the show. Copy of Art Front magazine, published by the Artists' Union, with image by Shahn, 1934. Made it to Ben Shahn's retrospective exhibit "On Non-Conformity" at the Jewish Museum in NYC. Very timely. And well-curated with historical documents, printed materials and some of his reference images. Closes Sunday, October 26. There's a book if you miss the show. CIO voting poster.
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Peter Walsh @walshpeter.bsky.social · 9d
Lots of great conversations but but too busy chatting to take photos this time around! #sunsetparkopenstudios
Thanks for coming to my Open Studio. Lots of great conversations but but too busy chatting to take photos this time around! #sunsetparkopenstudios
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Peter Walsh @walshpeter.bsky.social · 11d
No Kings! Times Square, October 18, 2025. Start of the march.
Image of No Kings protest in Times Square, October 18, 2025. Image of No Kings protest in Times Square, October 18, 2025. Image of No Kings protest in Times Square, October 18, 2025. Image of No Kings protest in Times Square, October 18, 2025.
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Peter Walsh @walshpeter.bsky.social · 11d
Making signs!
Protest sign - my grandpa fought the Nazis in WWII so I wouldn't have to. Protest sign - Democracies don't fear protests... dictators do!
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Peter Walsh @walshpeter.bsky.social · 17d
Great to meet @david.willburn and @steven_cabral36 in-person at their new exhibits at @thepaintingcenter last Thur night. Congrats! But I didn’t take enough pictures. Go see the shows. That's David in the first 2 pics and Steven's work in the other 2.
David Willburn painting. David Willburn with paintings. Steven Cabral painting. Steven Cabral painting.
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Peter Walsh @walshpeter.bsky.social · 17d
If you’re coming to see the exhibition “Dataset Hallucinations” at IFAC Arts at The Yard LES, don’t forget that the show is on both the 2nd and 3rd Floors! Artist Peter Walsh will be on site this Tue, Oct 14, 2-5pm.

85 Delancey St in Manhattan.

Hours: Mon-Fri, 10am-5pm or DM for an appointment.
Installation shot of paintings at the exhibition “Dataset Hallucinations” at IFAC Arts at The Yard LES. Installation shot of paintings at the exhibition “Dataset Hallucinations” at IFAC Arts at The Yard LES. Installation shot of paintings at the exhibition “Dataset Hallucinations” at IFAC Arts at The Yard LES.
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Peter Walsh @walshpeter.bsky.social · 17d
Friese Undine’s new exhibition is slyly, hysterically, funny. Cults of historical re-enactors, cannibals and naturists nostalgically jostle elbows with historical figures who may be different than we expect. At @thomasvandykegallery, Sunset Park Brooklyn, 434 39th Street, Thu-Sun, 1-6pm. Thru Nov. 7
“Boy with his own Attila the Hun” "One of the Emperors Diocletian with His Cabbages” “A Crimean War Protagonist with his Son” Selection of Portraits of Cannibals
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Peter Walsh @walshpeter.bsky.social · 23d
Come see the IFAC Arts exhibition "Dataset Hallucinations" and meet the artist at The Yard Lower East Side. Artist Peter Walsh will be in the gallery this week:

Tuesday, October 7, 2-5pm, and
Friday, October 10, 2-5pm

The Yard, LES 2nd & 3rd floors, 85 Delancey Street, NYC.
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Peter Walsh @walshpeter.bsky.social · 28d
Meet the Artist: Peter Walsh

During October, artist Peter Walsh will be in the gallery for select hours each week. Come see his IFAC Arts show "Dataset Hallucinations" at The Yard LES.

Schedule:

Fri, Oct 3, 2-5pm
Tue, Oct 7, 2-5pm
Fri, Oct 10, 2-5pm

The Yard LES is at 85 Delancey St in NYC.
Artist Peter Walsh holding paint brushes in front of a large painting.
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Peter Walsh @walshpeter.bsky.social · Sep 25
Gericault gets label "Adult Content."
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Peter Walsh @walshpeter.bsky.social · Sep 25
Even more.
Detail of “The Raft of the Medusa,” Théodore Géricault, 1818–1819. Detail of “Dataset: Five Dead Men…” Detail of “Liberty Leading the People” Eugène Delacroix, 1830. Detail of “Dataset: Five Dead Men…”
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Peter Walsh @walshpeter.bsky.social · Sep 25
More.
Detail of “Rue Transnonain, le 15 avril 1834,” Honoré Daumier, 1834. Detail of “Dataset: Five Dead Men…” Detail of “The Dead Man” (originally entitled The Dead Toreador), Édouard Manet, 1864 Detail of “Dataset: Five Dead Men…”
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Peter Walsh @walshpeter.bsky.social · Sep 25
Famously, AI systems crunch text and images based on the datasets that humans feed them. To create this work, rather than using AI, I fed myself a dataset of images of dead men in iconic European paintings. The naked and clothed male body is a complicated signifier. The images carry the content.
“Dataset: Five Dead Men Painted by Five Dead European Men (Holbein, Daumier, Gericault, Manet, Delacroix),” Peter Walsh, Oil and Spraypaint on Canvas, 48 inches by 60 inches, 2025. Studio view, “Dataset: Five Dead Men Painted by Five Dead European Men (Holbein, Daumier, Gericault, Manet, Delacroix),” Peter Walsh, Oil and Spraypaint on Canvas, 48 inches by 60 inches, 2025. Detail of “The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb,” Hans Holbein the Younger, circa 1522. Detail of “Dataset: Five Dead Men…”
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Peter Walsh @walshpeter.bsky.social · Sep 25
Thanks, Chris!
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Peter Walsh @walshpeter.bsky.social · Sep 22
I’m loving this beautiful zine put out by @worcesterportraitexchange from their recent event at JMAC in MA. Exchanging portraits seems to hold out the possibility of a utopian solution to the fraught ethics of visual representation. It’s not a perfect form, but it is so inspiring. Excellent!
Portraits in a zine. I’m loving this beautiful zine put out by @worcesterportraitexchange from their recent event at the Jean McDonough Arts Center (JMAC) in Worcester, Massachusetts. As I’ve been thinking about facial recognition systems and all the complexity of representing other people in their uniqueness, the form of exchanging portraits in a consensual hand-drawn human process still seems to hold out the possibility of a utopian solution to some of the power relationships that are a fraught part of visual representation. It’s not a perfect form, but it is so inspiring. Excellent! Kudos to the event hosts: Greg Hamilton, Meg Price, Matthew Burgos and Sarah Tompkins. Portraits in a zine. I’m loving this beautiful zine put out by @worcesterportraitexchange from their recent event at the Jean McDonough Arts Center (JMAC) in Worcester, Massachusetts. As I’ve been thinking about facial recognition systems and all the complexity of representing other people in their uniqueness, the form of exchanging portraits in a consensual hand-drawn human process still seems to hold out the possibility of a utopian solution to some of the power relationships that are a fraught part of visual representation. It’s not a perfect form, but it is so inspiring. Excellent! Kudos to the event hosts: Greg Hamilton, Meg Price, Matthew Burgos and Sarah Tompkins. Portraits in a zine. I’m loving this beautiful zine put out by @worcesterportraitexchange from their recent event at the Jean McDonough Arts Center (JMAC) in Worcester, Massachusetts. As I’ve been thinking about facial recognition systems and all the complexity of representing other people in their uniqueness, the form of exchanging portraits in a consensual hand-drawn human process still seems to hold out the possibility of a utopian solution to some of the power relationships that are a fraught part of visual representation. It’s not a perfect form, but it is so inspiring. Excellent! Kudos to the event hosts: Greg Hamilton, Meg Price, Matthew Burgos and Sarah Tompkins. Portraits in a zine. I’m loving this beautiful zine put out by @worcesterportraitexchange from their recent event at the Jean McDonough Arts Center (JMAC) in Worcester, Massachusetts. As I’ve been thinking about facial recognition systems and all the complexity of representing other people in their uniqueness, the form of exchanging portraits in a consensual hand-drawn human process still seems to hold out the possibility of a utopian solution to some of the power relationships that are a fraught part of visual representation. It’s not a perfect form, but it is so inspiring. Excellent! Kudos to the event hosts: Greg Hamilton, Meg Price, Matthew Burgos and Sarah Tompkins.
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Peter Walsh @walshpeter.bsky.social · Sep 19
Third set of photos from the opening.
Photo of people at an art opening. Thanks to everyone for coming out to the opening last night! Here’s a first batch of photos. Special thanks to Chris Quirk for these images. Fifteen paintings now on view at my two-floor solo exhibition "Dataset Hallucinations," with IFAC Arts and hosted at The Yard Lower East Side. The Yard LES is on the second and third floors at 85 Delancey Street on the Lower East Side in Manhattan. An elevator is available to those who would like to use it. The space is conveniently located on the south side of Delancey Street between the new Essex Street Market and the Tenement Museum. Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 10am-5pm or DM me for an appointment. Photo of people at an art opening. Thanks to everyone for coming out to the opening last night! Here’s a first batch of photos. Special thanks to Chris Quirk for these images. Fifteen paintings now on view at my two-floor solo exhibition "Dataset Hallucinations," with IFAC Arts and hosted at The Yard Lower East Side. The Yard LES is on the second and third floors at 85 Delancey Street on the Lower East Side in Manhattan. An elevator is available to those who would like to use it. The space is conveniently located on the south side of Delancey Street between the new Essex Street Market and the Tenement Museum. Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 10am-5pm or DM me for an appointment. Photo of people at an art opening. Thanks to everyone for coming out to the opening last night! Here’s a first batch of photos. Special thanks to Chris Quirk for these images. Fifteen paintings now on view at my two-floor solo exhibition "Dataset Hallucinations," with IFAC Arts and hosted at The Yard Lower East Side. The Yard LES is on the second and third floors at 85 Delancey Street on the Lower East Side in Manhattan. An elevator is available to those who would like to use it. The space is conveniently located on the south side of Delancey Street between the new Essex Street Market and the Tenement Museum. Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 10am-5pm or DM me for an appointment. Photo of people at an art opening. Thanks to everyone for coming out to the opening last night! Here’s a first batch of photos. Special thanks to Chris Quirk for these images. Fifteen paintings now on view at my two-floor solo exhibition "Dataset Hallucinations," with IFAC Arts and hosted at The Yard Lower East Side. The Yard LES is on the second and third floors at 85 Delancey Street on the Lower East Side in Manhattan. An elevator is available to those who would like to use it. The space is conveniently located on the south side of Delancey Street between the new Essex Street Market and the Tenement Museum. Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 10am-5pm or DM me for an appointment.
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Peter Walsh @walshpeter.bsky.social · Sep 19
More photos from the opening.
Photo of people at an art opening. Thanks to everyone for coming out to the opening last night! Here’s a first batch of photos. Special thanks to Chris Quirk for these images. Fifteen paintings now on view at my two-floor solo exhibition "Dataset Hallucinations," with IFAC Arts and hosted at The Yard Lower East Side. The Yard LES is on the second and third floors at 85 Delancey Street on the Lower East Side in Manhattan. An elevator is available to those who would like to use it. The space is conveniently located on the south side of Delancey Street between the new Essex Street Market and the Tenement Museum. Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 10am-5pm or DM me for an appointment. Photo of people at an art opening. Thanks to everyone for coming out to the opening last night! Here’s a first batch of photos. Special thanks to Chris Quirk for these images. Fifteen paintings now on view at my two-floor solo exhibition "Dataset Hallucinations," with IFAC Arts and hosted at The Yard Lower East Side. The Yard LES is on the second and third floors at 85 Delancey Street on the Lower East Side in Manhattan. An elevator is available to those who would like to use it. The space is conveniently located on the south side of Delancey Street between the new Essex Street Market and the Tenement Museum. Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 10am-5pm or DM me for an appointment. Photo of people at an art opening. Thanks to everyone for coming out to the opening last night! Here’s a first batch of photos. Special thanks to Chris Quirk for these images. Fifteen paintings now on view at my two-floor solo exhibition "Dataset Hallucinations," with IFAC Arts and hosted at The Yard Lower East Side. The Yard LES is on the second and third floors at 85 Delancey Street on the Lower East Side in Manhattan. An elevator is available to those who would like to use it. The space is conveniently located on the south side of Delancey Street between the new Essex Street Market and the Tenement Museum. Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 10am-5pm or DM me for an appointment. Photo of people at an art opening. Thanks to everyone for coming out to the opening last night! Here’s a first batch of photos. Special thanks to Chris Quirk for these images. Fifteen paintings now on view at my two-floor solo exhibition "Dataset Hallucinations," with IFAC Arts and hosted at The Yard Lower East Side. The Yard LES is on the second and third floors at 85 Delancey Street on the Lower East Side in Manhattan. An elevator is available to those who would like to use it. The space is conveniently located on the south side of Delancey Street between the new Essex Street Market and the Tenement Museum. Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 10am-5pm or DM me for an appointment.
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Peter Walsh @walshpeter.bsky.social · Sep 19
Thanks to everyone for coming out to the opening last night! Here’s a first batch of photos. Special thanks to Chris Quirk for these images.

"Dataset Hallucinations," 15 paintings, IFAC Arts at The Yard, 85 Delancey Street. M-F, 10-5 or DM to schedule a meet.
Photo of people at an art opening. Thanks to everyone for coming out to the opening last night! Here’s a first batch of photos. Special thanks to Chris Quirk for these images. Fifteen paintings now on view at my two-floor solo exhibition "Dataset Hallucinations," with IFAC Arts and hosted at The Yard Lower East Side. The Yard LES is on the second and third floors at 85 Delancey Street on the Lower East Side in Manhattan. An elevator is available to those who would like to use it. The space is conveniently located on the south side of Delancey Street between the new Essex Street Market and the Tenement Museum. Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 10am-5pm or DM me for an appointment. Photo of people at an art opening. Thanks to everyone for coming out to the opening last night! Here’s a first batch of photos. Special thanks to Chris Quirk for these images. Fifteen paintings now on view at my two-floor solo exhibition "Dataset Hallucinations," with IFAC Arts and hosted at The Yard Lower East Side. The Yard LES is on the second and third floors at 85 Delancey Street on the Lower East Side in Manhattan. An elevator is available to those who would like to use it. The space is conveniently located on the south side of Delancey Street between the new Essex Street Market and the Tenement Museum. Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 10am-5pm or DM me for an appointment. Photo of people at an art opening. Thanks to everyone for coming out to the opening last night! Here’s a first batch of photos. Special thanks to Chris Quirk for these images. Fifteen paintings now on view at my two-floor solo exhibition "Dataset Hallucinations," with IFAC Arts and hosted at The Yard Lower East Side. The Yard LES is on the second and third floors at 85 Delancey Street on the Lower East Side in Manhattan. An elevator is available to those who would like to use it. The space is conveniently located on the south side of Delancey Street between the new Essex Street Market and the Tenement Museum. Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 10am-5pm or DM me for an appointment. Photo of people at an art opening. Thanks to everyone for coming out to the opening last night! Here’s a first batch of photos. Special thanks to Chris Quirk for these images. Fifteen paintings now on view at my two-floor solo exhibition "Dataset Hallucinations," with IFAC Arts and hosted at The Yard Lower East Side. The Yard LES is on the second and third floors at 85 Delancey Street on the Lower East Side in Manhattan. An elevator is available to those who would like to use it. The space is conveniently located on the south side of Delancey Street between the new Essex Street Market and the Tenement Museum. Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 10am-5pm or DM me for an appointment.
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Peter Walsh @walshpeter.bsky.social · Sep 18
Adult content! Ha ha.
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Peter Walsh @walshpeter.bsky.social · Sep 18
JOIN US! THURSDAY, 9/18, for the opening reception of PETER WALSH - DATASET HALLUCINATIONS: PAINTING PERCEPTION IN THE AI AGE!

Opening Reception: Thursday, September 18, 6-8pm.

The Yard LES is on the second and third floors at 85 Delancey Street on the Lower East Side in Manhattan.
JOIN US! THURSDAY, 9/18, for the opening reception of PETER WALSH - DATASET HALLUCINATIONS: PAINTING PERCEPTION IN THE AI AGE! Opening Reception: Thursday, September 18, 6-8pm. The Yard LES is on the second and third floors at 85 Delancey Street on the Lower East Side in Manhattan.
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Peter Walsh @walshpeter.bsky.social · Sep 17
Now on view at my solo exhibition "Dataset Hallucinations," with IFAC Arts at The Yard LES. Reception: Thursday, September 18, 6-8pm. 85 Delancey Street NYC. An elevator is available to those who would like to use it. Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 10am-5pm or by appointment.
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Peter Walsh @walshpeter.bsky.social · Sep 17
Facial recognition systems use different math techniques but an interesting one, visually speaking, is Eigenfaces, first used by computer scientists in 1991 to classify faces by using a system of vector math that reduced differences in facial characteristics to allow for quicker processing.
“Triptych: Facial Hallucinations,” Peter Walsh, Oil and Spray Paint on Canvas, 34 inches by 30 inches, 2024. An example of four Eigenfaces, statistical models used by facial recognition systems to speed the identification of individual faces by using vector-based algorithms to reduce the complexity of the number crunching and increase the speed of processing (images from AT&T Laboratories Cambridge).
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Peter Walsh @walshpeter.bsky.social · Sep 12
Thanks Michele!
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Peter Walsh @walshpeter.bsky.social · Sep 12
Now on view at my solo exhibition with IFAC Arts and hosted at The Yard. Opening reception: Thursday, September 18, 6-8pm. 85 Delancey Street on the Lower East Side in Manhattan. An elevator is available to those who would like to use it.
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