Artwork
Untitled (portfolio of 8 screenprints)
Corner Piece #1
Painted wood, 1976
Toledo Museum of Art, Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey, 1981.48
Sol LeWitt emphasized extreme simplification of forms and colors in his work. By repeating and varying a single shape, like the cube, he created complex works of art that make visible his predetermined underlying systems.
LeWitt popularized the radical idea that an artwork’s concept is its most important aspect, the key principle of the Conceptual art movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Many of his works were instructions to be executed by someone else. This challenged the art world’s beliefs about the importance of craftsmanship and the subjectivity of the artist. His emphasis on concept, process, and the invention of rules-based systems has much in common with generative art: The artist designs a system that can be used to create work independently of the artist.
©2025 The LeWitt Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
All Double Combinations (Superimposed) of Six Geometric Figures (Circle, Square, Triangle, Rectangle, Trapezoid, and Parallelogram)
The Masks of Luci
Hybrid hand-drawn and generative artworks, NFT, and Ethereum blockchain, 2025
Courtesy of the artist
Sam Spratt’s Luci series is composed of his digital paintings and written poems. They follow the character Luci as they move from solitude toward the network of humanity. X. Masquerade is the most recent installment in this branching narrative, a large-scale digital painting that also unfolds as an exercise in collective storytelling for Spratt’s online community of collectors.
Trained as a painter, Spratt blends classical techniques with digital methods. To create Masquerade and the Masks of Luci, he developed an elaborate generative AI engine trained on his archive of digital paintings, down to each individual brushstroke. His aim was to “explore what it means to evolve with and through a machine. Not to outsource my dreams, but to execute them in exact form with 1,000 clones of my hands.” The resulting digital paintings are a mix of generative work trained on his past combined with handmade work from the present. Each new creation adds to the system and informs the future of the project.
The Masquerade
Digital painting made with custom generative software, 2025
Courtesy of Kanbas Collection
Sam Spratt’s Luci series is composed of his digital paintings and written poems. They follow the character Luci as they move from solitude toward the network of humanity. X. Masquerade is the most recent installment in this branching narrative, a large-scale digital painting that also unfolds as an exercise in collective storytelling for Spratt’s online community of collectors.
Trained as a painter, Spratt blends classical techniques with digital methods. To create Masquerade and the Masks of Luci, he developed an elaborate generative AI engine trained on his archive of digital paintings, down to each individual brushstroke. His aim was to “explore what it means to evolve with and through a machine. Not to outsource my dreams, but to execute them in exact form with 1,000 clones of my hands.” The resulting digital paintings are a mix of generative work trained on his past combined with handmade work from the present. Each new creation adds to the system and informs the future of the project.