Painter Lee Mullican’s Computer Works From 1987 Are Part of a New NFT Collection, Dropping on the Digital Art Space Feral File
Painter Lee Mullican’s Computer Works From 1987 Are Part of a New NFT Collection, Dropping on the Digital Art Space Feral File
In the early 1960s, Lee Mullican, the San Franciscan artist best known for his modernist abstractions, swapped his paintbrush for the printer’s ink knife. Using its thin edge, he would apply paint to his canvases, building color in finely textured lines he called “striations” that lent his cosmic compositions a rhythmic quality. It’s a technique he would deploy for the rest of his career—except for a brief time in the spring of 1987, when Mullican would trade his knife for a computer program.
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