This event is in the past.It took place on April 11, 2026 at Heft Gallery.

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Photography Exhibition
Rising artist

Light Matter

March 21 - April 11

At Heft Gallery

Lower East Side, New York

💬"We are all composites of our parents, our decades, and our ancestry" (Nancy Burson)
🤖"A must see if you like the intersection of art and technology"
🍸Excellent bar on-site for post-show drinks

Nancy Burson invented facial morphing at MIT in the 1970s, and this show reveals the pioneering composite portraits that shaped modern AI and facial recognition. Her early digital experiments feel startlingly prescient, merging human faces into uncanny new forms that question identity itself.

digital art pioneer
AI foreshadowing
uncanny composites
Chinatown gallery
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