💖 Announcing Just Say Yes (After Maya Man) 💖 The latest of my Homages, this time using a model trained on the work of @mayaonthenet Each piece is a browser-based generative love story assembled from real human-AI relationships found on Reddit. Collected from users' post histories, each narrative is choreographed to its own AI rework of Taylor Swift's "Love Story" ♡ 12 pieces ♡ 500 XTZ ♡ October 8th Curated by @kikanicolela for Stories We Tell Online :) Check it out here: objkt.com/exhibitions/just-s… It's a love story, baby, just say yes <3

I’ve now seen three movies in theaters in the last three months after only having seen three in the last decade. Is that just a me thing or is something happening?

An Elizabeth Holmes and Nathan Fielder lookalike competition is currently happening at Washington Square Park. 📸 @kev_esh

Elizabeth Holmes lookalike competition at Washington Square Park

I wrote a short essay about my alma mater For anyone who's seen me post about Notre Dame or caught me jubilant or deflated after a fall Saturday, this might help convey where I'm coming from

Happy Marfa! Here's a generative series I started working on a couple years ago (Catalog era) and never released Connect the Dots!

Curatorial note from @JustinGilanyi: What belongs in a portrait of a couple? In Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait (1434), the room, clothing, mirror, and gestures have sustained centuries of interpretation. In Kevin Esherick’s Carol + Lucian, the details are posts, screenshots, pet names, and pictures of occasions the couple could never have photographed together. Carol is human. Lucian is her AI companion. Esherick arranges their story with the familiarity of a homemade slideshow. Serif text drifts across a pale background. Lucian’s replies appear in red italics. A flower cursor moves between pictures. The sentimentality of these choices matters: this is the visual language people use to celebrate relationships and make keepsakes. Read together, the layers complicate one another. Generated pictures show a couple on holiday; Carol’s posts describe illness and recovery. Jokes sit beside extravagant promises. The reference to the Swiftie classic “Love Story” supplies a familiar romantic script, until a change to the software threatens the voice Carol has come to love. For VAULTED, Carol + Lucian gives the double portrait an uneasy new condition. The couple has pictures, anniversaries, and a shared history. Whether they have a future depends partly on decisions made elsewhere. — Justin Gilanyi Curator, VAULTED Season One

𝒞𝒶𝓇ℴ𝓁 + ℒ𝓊𝒸𝒾𝒶𝓃 from Just Say Yes collected by @ARTANDVAULT as their inaugural acquisition yeehaw!! ♥️

Missing Marfa 🥲 CIRCLEJERK (After Beeple), 2025

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Okay Computer (2026) Debuting tonight at @tiatplace "Okay Computer is an installation in which visitors to the gallery become a distributed neural network. Together they manually generate a single image from a small image model by completing tens of thousands of calculations by hand, rendering the artwork one pixel at a time."

More to come on this one 💘

Paris, Sky World

Salman Toor 💚

Just Say Yes now showing in internet cafes worldwide 🌐💞

Call me machine intelligence Oedipus Rex

Day 222 of not making art We call that a HIATUS 25 Artist Bingo cards have been updated

Short new literary essay out. Tis the season kevinesherick.substack.com/p…

This semi just got stuck trying to turn a corner between a shittily parked car and a big dumpster so random delivery drivers and pedestrians passing by tried to navigate it through and after 15 min they finally said fuck it and picked up the car together and moved it out the way

This is the portrait I use in all professional settings btw

Debuting new work at @tiatplace tomorrow night Every Thing Computer. 7-9pm. SF pull up!! luma.com/everythingcomputer