Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Kelly McKernan's acrylic and watercolor paintings are bold and vibrant, often featuring feminine figures rendered in bright greens, blues, pinks and purples. The style, in the artist's words, is "surreal, ethereal … dealing with discomfort in the human journey." The word "human" has a special resonance for McKernan these days.

Last year, a Tennessee-based artist named Kelly McKernan noticed that their name was being used with increasing frequency in A.I.-driven image generation. McKernan makes paintings that often feature nymphlike female figures in an acid-colored style that blends Art Nouveau and science fiction. A list published in August, by a Web site called Metaverse Post, suggested "Kelly McKernan" as a term to feed an A.I. generator in order to create "Lord of the Rings"-style art. Hundreds of other artists were similarly listed according to what their works evoked: anime, modernism, "Star Wars." On the Discord chat that runs an A.I. generator called Midjourney, McKernan discovered that users had included their name more than twelve thousand times in public prompts.