Art

2026 Featured Artist

Tiffany Calvert | St. Louis, MO

Tiffany Calvert’s paintings incorporate diverse technologies, including fresco, 3D modeling, and data manipulation. In Calvert’s work, painting grapples with its digital counterpart – trying to disguise itself into digital imagery while at the same time differentiating itself as material, human and tangible. John Yau, in his Hyperallergic profile, compares their “improvisational riffs and fractured views” to de Kooning. Calvert’s most recent body of work employs a custom machine learning model developed in collaboration with computer engineers at WashU’s McKelvey School of Engineering. The model uses a dataset of over 600 historical still life paintings to generate new invented images onto which she paints.

Calvert’s work has been exhibited at the Lawrimore Project (Seattle, Wash.), E.TAY Gallery (N.Y.), the Speed Museum (Louisville, Ky.), the Susquehanna Art Museum (Pa.), and Cadogan Contemporary (London, U.K.), among others. Residencies include the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, I-Park, and ArtOmi International Arts Center where she received a Geraldine R. Dodge Fellowship. Calvert has received grants from the Great Meadows Foundation and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. She is currently Associate Professor and Chair of the MFA in Visual Art at the Sam Fox School at WashU in St. Louis.

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“Calvert’s paintings are palimpsests, archeological digs, engagements with art history, improvisational riffs, and fractured views. They wrestle with painting’s dual legacy without settling on an answer…”
— from John Yau, Hyperallergic online journal