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Email PageWade Guyton 2007
November 13, 2007- December 15, 2007
Reception: November 15, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Wade Guyton
Friedrich Petzel Gallery
537 W 22nd StFriedrich Petzel Gallery is pleased to announce the second solo exhibition of works by Wade Guyton.
Guyton’s new paintings are ostensibly black monochromes. Made with an Epson large format printer in the same manner as the paintings he has been producing for the last three years, these works are printed on pre-primed linen intended for oil painting and not inkjet printing. As such, the images, marks, and letters Guyton continues to employ are absorbed into the porous material and disperse the ink rather than allowing it, as in his previous works, to “sit on the surface.” Upon discovering this difference in the ink’s interaction with the surface, the artist began to overprint his own paintings with a Photoshop-drawn rectangle “filled” with the color black. By repetitively overprinting, an unexpected painterly process developed. As each piece is created, they transcribe a visual record of the printer’s actions: the trace of movement of the print heads, the varying states of their clogged-ness, the track marks of the wheels on wet ink all mixed with the scratches and smears on the paintings from being dragged across the floor to be fed back again into the printer.
Wade Guyton was born in 1972 in Hammond, Indiana. He received his BFA from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His work most recently appeared in a solo exhibition at Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne and in Les Biennales de Lyon, Lyon, curated by Scott Rothkopf. He will have a solo exhibition at Portikus, Frankfurt in 2008. His works are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Musee d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva. Wade Guyton lives and works in New York.
Art Reviews of Wade Guyton 2007
| New York Times December 14, 2007 | Holland Cotter | "Wade Guyton’s show of new paintings looks at first like a garage-band version of Mark Rothko’s somber Houston chapel, made even darker by sheets of black-painted plywood covering the gallery floor. As is his custom, Mr. Guyton takes modernism, with its touchy-feely spiritual pretensions, for a hard ride. And as always he goes well beyond a one-line put-down. The art-into-life aesthetic of John Cage and the painting-into-architecture aesthetic of Blinky Palermo would seem to be among his models...." |
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