Infinite Games

A recent game of chess against Matt Demers got me thinking about how the ways in which he and I, as painters, solve problems in our work is a lot like how we solve problems in chess. Like painting, chess is a practice of creative visual problem-solving. The work in Infinite Games isn’t chess-themed—and it isn’t all painting. But I’m of the belief that an analysis of the studio practices which yielded the works in the show benefits from a soupçon of chess and some light game theory. Infinite Games is a show about the seven artists approach to solving problems.