Jpegs
A monumental digital pigment print by Thomas Ruff from his celebrated *Jpegs* series, in which the artist deliberately enlarges low-resolution internet-sourced images until their compressed pixel blocks become bold, abstract fields of color. The resulting work hovers between photography and digital painting, exposing the underlying data structure of the image and challenging traditional notions of photographic authenticity. Ruff's process transforms visual information into a meditation on how images are constructed, transmitted, and perceived in the digital age.
- Medium
- Digital pigment print in colors, on photo paper, with full margins,
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Evening & Day Editions
October 26, 2015
Collectors with works by Thomas Ruff
Artists in conversation
Andreas Gursky
German · b. 1955
Gursky creates large format digital pigment prints that manipulate photographic imagery through digital processes, similarly blurring the boundary between photography and abstraction while interrogating how images represent reality in the contemporary media landscape.
Wade Guyton
American · b. 1972
Guyton uses digital processes and inkjet printing to produce large scale works that expose the mechanical and data driven nature of image making, sharing Ruff's interest in pixelation, compression artifacts, and the materiality of digitally generated imagery.
Idris Khan
British · b. 1978
Khan works with photographic and digital layering techniques to create large format pigment prints that dissolve recognizable imagery into abstract fields, engaging conceptually with questions of representation, data, and the collapse of photographic authenticity.
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