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LOWELL NESBITT IBM #729.
Oil on canvas, 1965. 2035x1525 mm; 80x60 inches. Signed, titled and dated in oil, verso.
Ex-collection the artist's estate; New York; private collection, New York.
Exhibited "Computers and Art," Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York; IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York; the Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, 1988.
Published in Goodman, Digital Visions: Computers and Art, New York, 1988.
The "Computers and Art" exhibition was a groundbreaking event, described by one critic as, "A circus-like extravaganza of visual and aural effects . . . at the IBM Gallery of Science and Art. Everything from a water sculpture that responds to both programmed music and hand-clapping, to a drawing machine that creates images of plants and people, can be seen and experimented with in 'Computers and Art,' a truly fascinating exhibition devoted to the computer and its importance in the making of art today. There are 141 works in all, including several collaborative pieces, by more than 150 painters, sculptors, architects, and video artists, all of whom have utilized computers at some point in the creative process. These works represent almost every stylistic approach, from traditional oil paintings to 'high-tech' video and 3-D 'synthetic' images, and include examples by, among others, Andy Warhol, Philip Pearlstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers, and Kenneth Noland."
