Wade Guyton

Wade Guyton ( b. 1972 in Hammond, Indiana) is an American conceptual artist, installation artist and painter who uses in creating his works of art scanners and digital - ink printer.

Life

Guyton completed his studies in 1995 at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1998 at Hunter College in New York City from. During his time at Hunter College he worked until 2004 as a security guard for the Dia Art Foundation in their showroom in Chelsea. From its settlement in the closure of Dia: Chelsea he could afford to continue to maintain both a studio and an apartment in the East Village in New York.

Guyton's first drawings from the period around 2003, black X - characters that were printed on sheets torn from design magazines and furnishings catalogs of the 1960s. The black color and the letter X have since been his trademark. Guyton, however, does not work with the brush but with inkjet printers after he has designed his abstract paintings on the computer and edited with Photoshop. In the early years he printed his works on materials such as canvas, book pages, advertising pages or even plywood. Since 2005, he preferred canvases, which he then exhibited as a series, as rectangles of the same size, perpendicular and at equal distances from each other.

Some critics see in Guyton a successor of the artists of appropriation art and a representative of the modern art of the 21st century, the digital technologies used and compare it for example with Tomma Abts or Mark Grotjahn.

Exhibitions

  • 2003: Power House Memphis.
  • 2006: Color, Power & Style: Kunstverein Hamburg. Catalog.
  • 2006: Guyton / Walker: The Empire Strikes Back. Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
  • 2007: Wade Guyton: Installations. Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne.
  • 2008: Wade Guyton: Black Paintings: portico, Frankfurt am Main. Catalog.
  • 2009: Wade Guyton: Drawings for a great picture, Museum Ludwig, Köln.Kataöog.
  • 2012: Wade Guyton: OS, Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.
  • 2013: Petzel Gallery, New York City, USA
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