Selected Works / Science-Based Art

Artwork as the first instrument.

These works begin with visual experience and open into questions about planetary worlds, exploration, light, scale, history, and our place in the cosmos.

Visions of the Cosmos

Look closely. Let a question begin.

Explore a selection of Lee’s science-based artwork. For current artwork information and availability, inquire with Lee.

Robots of Mars, with clustered circular forms across a vivid blue, green, yellow, and orange visual field.Robotic exploration / Mars systems

Cosmos / Visions of the Cosmos

Robots of Mars

A visual entry point into robotic missions, landing sites, instrument systems, and the way machines extend human observation across another world.

Water on Mars, displayed as a large mixed-media science-based artwork.Planetary geology / Water history

Cosmos / Visions of the Cosmos

Water on Mars!

A planetary-science investigation into evidence for ancient water, changing environments, and the questions robotic explorers carry to Mars.

Spaceship Earth 1968, a science-based artwork showing Earth beyond a lunar horizon.Earth perspective / Human exploration

Cosmos / Visions of the Cosmos

Spaceship Earth 1968

A record connecting the view of Earth from space with Apollo-era perspective, planetary stewardship, and human exploration.

Six Giant Leaps, a science-based artwork connecting six Apollo lunar landing sites.Apollo / Exploration history

Cosmos / Visions of the Cosmos

Six Giant Leaps

A pathway into the six crewed Apollo lunar landings, mission geography, sample science, and the cumulative work behind exploration.

Voyager I Pale Blue Dot, a science-based mixed-media artwork by E. Lee Wilson Jr.Robotic exploration / Planetary perspective

Cosmos / Visions of the Cosmos

Voyager I — Pale Blue Dot

An invitation to examine robotic exploration, distance, image-making, and the fragile scale of Earth in the Solar System.

Galaxy Rising, a three-panel science-based mixed-media artwork by E. Lee Wilson Jr.Galaxies / Cosmic structure

Cosmos / Visions of the Cosmos

Galaxy Rising I, II, III

A triptych that opens questions about galactic form, structure, light, and the evidence astronomers use to read distant systems.