The drawings and paintings I create with the computer all employ an old, but still powerful computer graphic device - the pen plotter. An open flat-bed plotter is used to draw directly on canvas with acrylic paint, thus affording larger scale works than are possible with paper and pen plotters. My procedure is to create color images on the screen using a variety of permutations. These images are then transferred, pixel by pixel, to simple surfaces and projected into three space. The process is reminiscent of a digital collage. Instead of trying to disguise pixels, they become the central graphic element of the artmaking process. Perhaps most importantly, the pictures are unrealizable in any other medium. (M. Wilson)

Technical background:

The above graphics were produced on an IBM PC, an IBM PS2 Mod. 50, an IBM 7375 Plotter and an Alpha Merics Open Bed Plotter. The software is custom-made by the artist.

Mark Wilson, born 1943 in Cottage Grove/ Oregon. Studied at Pomona College, Claremont California (1965) and at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (M. F. A. 1967 ). Mark Wilson lived in New York City from 1968 to 1971. In 1971 he moved to West Cornwall/Connecticut. One-man exhibitions at the Hundred Acres Gallery, New York City, at the University of Delaware and at Trumbull College, Yale University. Various grants and research funds. Participation at numerous group exhibitions, e.g. 1974 “Painting and Sculpture 1974” Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Indianapolis Museum of Art. 1975 Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo. 1985–87 ACM SIGGRAPH Art Show. 1987 “Art Ware”, Hannover and Dusseldorf; “Prints & Plots”, Golden Plotter Award, Cologne; Ars Electronica, Linz. 1988 “Forum”': Hamburg. His works are part of numerous collections in the USA and in Brazil. Publication: “Drawing with Computers”, New York, Putnam, 1985, and articles in various magazines.