99: Will AI Replace Visual Artists? – A Conversation with David Molesky

In this episode, we speak with oil painter David Molesky about the importance of legitimate alternatives to college, the role of AI in the breakdown of higher education in the West, and the threat potentially posed to visual artists by AI image generators. David’s compositions deal with themes such as masculinity, tragicomedy, heroism, and the tension between organic abstraction and mythological figuration. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, New American Painting, and American Arts Quarterly and is held in permanent collections at Long Beach Museum of Art, the Iloilo Museum of Contemporary Art in the Philippines, and elsewhere. He’s also been supported by residency programs around the world.