{"id":391082,"date":"2026-01-26T09:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T09:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/391082\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T09:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T09:40:07","slug":"birmingham-artist-to-showcase-oil-paintings-glitches-in-coventry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/391082\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham artist to showcase oil paintings glitches in Coventry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Although some of the paintings contain fragmented images of anonymous people, many of the photos also depict the faces of cultural icons from a pre-internet era.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They includes Richard Nixon, Madonna, Debbie Harry and David Bowie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;By disrupting the computer&#8217;s own processes for my compositions, I&#8217;m using technology in way that it&#8217;s not supposed to be used, and that&#8217;s art,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m travelling into the screen and returning with what I find there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;With oil paint, I&#8217;m taking the digital, immaterial and making it real again, to give the viewer the pleasure of reality. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My message for viewers is to stay with real life as much as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paul Lemmon: Through the Screen will run from 4 to 15 February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although some of the paintings contain fragmented images of anonymous people, many of the photos also depict the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-391082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}