Adrian Schachter, Untitled, 2026, Courtesy of the Artist and Amanita
Adrian Schachter, Meeting 1, 2024, Photo by Guang Xu, Courtesy of the Artist and Amanita
Adrian Schachter, Village after Mehretu/anime horse legs, 2024, Photo by Guang Xu, Courtesy of the Artist and Amanita
Amanita presents new paintings by Adrian Schachter, whose work navigates the porous boundary between myth, speculative history, and contemporary image-making technologies. Drawing on obscure folklore, historical anecdotes, and artificial intelligence–generated imagery, Schachter constructs improbable yet strangely plausible scenes that he then translates into meticulously rendered surfaces. The presentation highlights the artist’s ongoing investigation into how narratives - whether mythological, technological, or historical - shape our understanding of reality.
Adrian Schachter (b. 1996, New York) is a painter whose work explores the unstable relationship between truth, belief, and representation. His paintings draw from mythology, obscure historical events, paranormal phenomena, and artificial intelligence–generated imagery. Using AI as a generative tool, Schachter produces unexpected visual compositions that he then reinterprets through painting, referencing traditions ranging from medieval allegory to early modern European painting. Through this process, he examines how images—both historical and technological—participate in the construction of collective myths and speculative realities.