While print is far from dead, most notably through the recent renaissance of photobooks in the past five to ten years, it’s a safe and obvious assumption that most of our interaction with images today occurs on screens. This pixel-heavy experience is at the heart of artist Paul Stephenson’s latest exhibition Forced Collaboration which includes three recent bodies of work: Watermark Paintings, Internet Paintings, and Reflection Paintings opening August 5th at London’s StolenSpace Gallery. For each of these series, Stephenson transforms nineteenth century paintings, purchased at various auction houses, into his own by graffiti’ing them with facial recognition outlines, watermarks from tech companies like Google and Shutterstock, and other symbols of digital interference.