Exhibition 00006 / Mark NicollManhattan Machine.
An imagined Manhattan of stacked roads, towers and machinery. Inspired by Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, each work sets one high-lustre gold machine or instrument against a largely monochrome city.
The creatorMark Nicoll
Mark Nicoll creates AI-derived art. For Gold of the Nile, he developed portraits of Cleopatra, Anubis, Isis and Osiris with OpenAI image generation, combining Gustav Klimt-inspired ornament with a palette-knife impasto effect.
01 / AI-derived artworkMark Nicoll, 2026
- Created with
- OpenAI image generation
- Inspired by
- Manhattan architecture, Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
- Technique
- Graphite, ink-wash, etched-surface and polished-gold effects
A polished gold aircraft flies between immense grey towers and elevated routes. The single bright machine draws the eye into the city’s stacked architecture.
02 / AI-derived artworkMark Nicoll, 2026
- Created with
- OpenAI image generation
- Inspired by
- Manhattan architecture, Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
- Technique
- Graphite, ink-wash, etched-surface and polished-gold effects
A high-lustre gold Art Deco clock projects between dark towers seen from below. One gleaming timepiece interrupts the repeated rhythm of windows.
03 / AI-derived artworkMark Nicoll, 2026
- Created with
- OpenAI image generation
- Inspired by
- Manhattan architecture, Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
- Technique
- Graphite, ink-wash, etched-surface and polished-gold effects
A gold service robot stands among small human figures beneath massive supports and elevated roads. The city seems built for a scale of life larger than its pedestrians.
04 / AI-derived artworkMark Nicoll, 2026
- Created with
- OpenAI image generation
- Inspired by
- Manhattan architecture, Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
- Technique
- Graphite, ink-wash, etched-surface and polished-gold effects
A streamlined gold car occupies a bridge approach above silver-grey river and city structures. Road, water and towers interlock around one conspicuously polished machine.
05 / AI-derived artworkMark Nicoll, 2026
- Created with
- OpenAI image generation
- Inspired by
- Manhattan architecture, Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
- Technique
- Graphite, ink-wash, etched-surface and polished-gold effects
A gold mechanical orrery glows in a window within a wall of dark architecture. Its linked rings and spheres make a small ordered universe inside the larger city.
06 / AI-derived artworkMark Nicoll, 2026
- Created with
- OpenAI image generation
- Inspired by
- Manhattan architecture, Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
- Technique
- Graphite, ink-wash, etched-surface and polished-gold effects
A polished gold telescope on an observation terrace points towards towers rising through silver haze. The instrument offers a way to look into the machine rather than escape it.
07 / AI-derived artworkMark Nicoll, 2026
- Created with
- OpenAI image generation
- Inspired by
- Manhattan architecture, Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
- Technique
- Graphite, ink-wash, etched-surface and polished-gold effects
A gold river launch crosses the foreground beneath a wide grey skyline of stepped towers and bridges. The boat and its restrained reflection provide the bright focal point in a long city panorama.
08 / AI-derived artworkMark Nicoll, 2026
- Created with
- OpenAI image generation
- Inspired by
- Manhattan architecture, Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
- Technique
- Graphite, ink-wash, etched-surface and polished-gold effects
A connected two-section gold train crosses an elevated route within a city canyon of stacked roads. The gleaming train threads through three levels of darker infrastructure.
Free to view, in 3D or here. TAG does not sell artwork: a shop button takes you to Mark Nicoll’s own shop, after a notice.
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