Anton Perich, "Electric Paintings 1978–2014"

IIn an attempt to fill in the historical record, this show casts Perich as having the real claim to Wade Guyton’s supposed invention of ink-jet–printer painting, as if that were important to art history. The jury is still out on the matter, but suffice to say that in the late 1970s, Perich, inspired by the video technology of the time, did indeed create an “electric painting machine” that produced images using an analog version of television scan lines. Perich, a hanger-on within the Warhol milieu, was also a photographer and the host of a cable-access show about the art world. Judging by his portraits of the fabulous and beautiful, he seemed especially attuned to the crossover between celebrity and art. Some of those images are included here, along with his experiments in abstraction.