E16007

Name: Ragnar Digital, LLC
Price range: $

Mark Wilson

2010

Print (Digital)

24" x 24"
edition 3 of 5
signed by the artist

Description

E16007 forms part of a long-running series of layered, hyper-detailed digital prints by Mark Wilson, who began incorporating computer and electronic imagery into his painting practice in the 1970s. He turned to algorithmic art in 1980 after acquiring a Texas Instruments 99/4A microcomputer and teaching himself to program.

In the early 1980s—before large-format inkjet printers were widely available—Wilson developed a technique he called “pixel mapping,” manually plotting each pixel from a low-resolution screen image onto paper or canvas to produce more complex, painterly compositions. This labor-intensive method addressed the mismatch between coarse computer displays and the richness of hand-made images. By the mid-1980s, the emergence of archival inkjet printers enabled him to fill broader areas and stack multiple layers in PostScript. Although E16007 does not employ pixel mapping directly, it remains informed by that earlier method. It translates discrete digital units into richly modulated color fields, achieved here through layered algorithmic processes rather than hand-plotted pixels.