Tomorrow Night at @machineartsgallery 6-8pm
Join us for an opening reception with Stephanie Budmen and Isaac Budmen, featuring a new body of panoramic-scale works created with plotted ink on fabric using Bantam Tools art machines.
Their practice is driven by curiosity, experimentation, and discovery. The works on view explore process, repetition, color, and emergence through machine-assisted mark making and material exploration.
Opening Reception
Friday, May 8
6 PM to 8 PM
Peekskill, NY
Free and open to the public.
Stephanie + Isaac Budmen
(⚠️Change of Date) Opening Friday May 8, 6–8 PM
Their work begins in curiosity and unfolds through process, inviting that same sense of curiosity in return.
Machine Arts Gallery 107 S Division St, Peekskill
Kids are always welcome, and this one is especially great for young, curious minds.
“I view datasets as comprising thousands of individual pieces, much like an artist’s series.”
— @ownyourdataset
Karson approaches datasets as constructed, expressive systems, where each image functions as part of a larger body of work. In this series, she uses AI to repair and reconstruct leaves, building a dataset of variations that are then translated into physical drawings on the Bantam Tools #ArtFrame, where computational interpretation meets material output.
Work currently on view at Machine Arts Gallery, work available at the gallery and at bantamtools.com/karson.
“Mapping meaning to matter is key to the art process.”
— Peter Beyls, Material Matters
Using custom software that pulls faces from the New York Times image archive, Beyls translates source material into algorithmic paintings on the Bantam Tools #ArtFrame.
Work currently on view at Machine Arts Gallery and available for acquisition (visit us or dm). On display for one more weekend.
Added another guest this week, Paul Rickards.
Three artists. One week. One shared constraint.
Every piece in this residency was created on-site at Bantam Tools HQ, using our full lineup of art machines.
Paul Rickards joins the residency as an expert in vintage pen plotters, exploring color through their mechanical language while bringing deep knowledge of their history, mechanics, and expressive potential into a contemporary, process-driven practice.
Peter Beyls explores generative systems and emergent behavior, building on decades of computer art.
Jenn Karson brings AI research into a hands-on, material-driven practice, translating computation into drawing and motion with real physical presence.
This is not a retrospective. It is a snapshot. Raw, immediate, experimental work, from pen-plotted drawings to machine-assisted paintings, all made in a single week.
Opening Reception
Friday, April 17
6 to 8 PM
See the work. Meet the artists. Watch ideas become physical works of art.
Two artists. One week. One shared constraint.
Every piece in this residency was created on-site at Bantam Tools HQ, using our full lineup of art machines.
Peter Beyls explores generative systems and emergent behavior, building on decades of computer art.
Jenn Karson brings AI research into a hands-on, material-driven practice, translating computation into drawing and motion with real physical presence.
This is not a retrospective. It is a snapshot. Raw, immediate, experimental work, from pen-plotted drawings to machine-assisted paintings, all made in a single week.
Opening Reception Friday, April 17 6 to 8 PM
See the work. Meet the artists. Watch ideas become physical works of art.
Wavelet Dance #4 | @lostpixels
8” x 10” Archival Ink
100% Cotton Paper, Algorithm
Edition of 30 unique drawings
Artist statement: Wavelet Dance is an exploration of tidal dynamics within minimalist systems of threads. Exhibited as both works of motion and a series of 30 individual 8”x10” drawings, Wavelet Dance exposes the undulating nature of currents that ebb and flow. Featured at SequenceFest in 2026 as a multimodal series.
The Peekskill Pixel Project
@nimanothome
3” x 3” Magnetic Canvas Tiles
Archival ink, 100% Cotton Canvas
24 Variations, Editions of 9 per
Artist Statement: My practice has long centered on works developed in series — discrete yet interconnected pieces that together articulate sequential and infinite progressions of color and pattern. SequenceFest has offered a unique opportunity to deepen this exploration and push the boundaries of my process.
The Peekskill Pixel Project is a 72” × 27” composition comprising 216 miniature 3” × 3” canvas panels, each rendered in 12 ink colors. The work encompasses 24 distinct sequential variations, produced in an edition of 9 per variation. An accompanying animation “reads” the composition one pixel at a time, traversing the piece first horizontally and then vertically in a continuous snaking motion.
Individual pixel panels are available as separate works, making the complete composition — in its full, unified form — exclusively viewable at SequenceFest.
