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About the Artist: Ethan Hulbert

Ethan Hulbert is an interdisciplinary artist with a degree in experimental film from Columbia College Chicago, along with studies in nanoscience, relativistic thermodynamics, and nuclear engineering. Aside from the digital work displayed here, Ethan has worked in music, film, video, paint, collage, and other mediums. 

Dynamically introspective, Ethan’s abstract art pushes the boundaries between photorealistic precision and pulp-fantasy debris. In Ethan’s work, cataclysmic science futurism meets fantastical higher powers and galaxies clash with ghosts.

Perplexia art creator Ethan James Hulbert with six abstract prints on aluminum and canvas.

The pieces exhibited on this website detail Ethan’s journeys through digital abstract art over a period of many years. While most of the Glitch Series was made within two eventful months, the Abstract Collection spans nearly seven years of creative development, while the Test Art comprises the additional experiments along the way.

No artificial intelligence services have been used to generate the art on this website. However, for the first time, the use of AI has been employed to interpret Ethan’s work. Portions of each Test Art piece description were generated by feeding the piece and title into an AI and letting it interpret the work. AI also helped craft inspiration for some of the poetry used in the Glitch Series.

Ethan’s work has been exhibited in galleries and theaters in Minneapolis and Chicago. Ethan was raised in Spring Valley, WI, and now resides in Los Angeles, working in digital advertising in Santa Monica.

Perplexia artist Ethan J Hulbert with Forced Leather on aluminum, Arriving Goddess, Contort, and Otherworldly on canvas.

You can also visit the Perplexia Shops at Redbubble and Society6. These will be expanded and better integrated with the website sometime in 2023. Each shop has different types of products and different pricing levels, so you can choose what works best for you.

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