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Gerhard Richter is an artist that utilizes randomness in his art. Richter’s “4900 Colours: Version II” was exhibited at Serpentine Gallery back in 2008.
This work consisted of 196 panels each with a 5 x 5 square. The randomness comes from a computer program that assigned colors to each square by random from a 25 color palette. The panels could be hung together to create one large display but in the exhibit they were arranged by random in sets of 4.
The intriguing part about the work is the pure randomness. One may not look at it and immediately see random colors because some panels seemed to be dominated by one certain color, but that is the beauty of pure randomness because in random nature patterns may actually occur.