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| WADE GUYTON b. 1972 Untitled Action Sculpture, 2006 stainless steel 47 x 34 x 32 in. (119.4 x 86.4 x 81.3 cm.) |
“ Then I kept looking at the structure and I realized, the
metal was made from bending, and so I wondered what
would happen, if I continued bending.”
WADE GUYTON
metal was made from bending, and so I wondered what
would happen, if I continued bending.”
WADE GUYTON
"Llavors em vaig quedar mirant l'estructura i em vaig adonar, que tot el
metall es va fer a partir de flexió, i pel que es va preguntar què
Què passaria, si seguia doblant ".
WADE GUYTON
Què passaria, si seguia doblant ".
WADE GUYTON
Wade Guyton (American, b.1972) is a printmaker best known for his
black monochromes made with an Epson inkjet printer. Born in Hammond,
IN, Guyton studied at the University of Tennessee, and later at Hunter
College in New York. In his early work, Guyton used a desktop printer to
lay black X-shapes, which would become his signature mark, over pages
taken from interior design catalogues. His work recycles images using
inkjet printing, photo silk screening, and stenciling to imitate
Abstract painting. For his series of large-scale untitled works from
2007–2008, Guyton printed black ink on pieces of stretched linen using
an Epson 9600 printer. These works appear to follow the tradition of
Abstract Expressionism, but the inconsistencies on the surface of the
canvases depend on the amount of ink in the printer, not on the artist’s
hand. Guyton questions the value of artistic skill in age when Abstract
Art is proliferated by mechanical reproduction. In 2009, he began a
series of black-and-white stripes produced by printing digital files of
the stripes on pieces of folded linen, which record inconsistencies in
ink and the scratches made by dragging the fabric across the floor to
feed into the printer. Guyton’s work has been exhibited at the
Kunsthalle Zürich in Switzerland, the Museo d'Arte Moderna in Bologna,
and MoMA PS1 in New York. He lives and works in New York.
