Wade Guyton

Recently I’ve been using Epson inkjet printers and flatbed scanners as tools to make works that act like drawings, paintings, even sculptures. I spend a lot of time with books and so logically I’ve ended up using pages from books as material- pages torn from books and fed through an inkjet printer…

Wade Guyton’s paintings assume the structure and appearance of paintings in the traditional sense, yet also conjure a re-formation and re-structure of modernism and decor. Like his ongoing series of "printer drawings," produced by overprinting pages from art books with simple patterns using an inkjet printer, Guyton feeds primed linen through a large-format printer numerous times…

Whitney Biennial 2004

U Stencil, 2006

Wade Guyton’s paintings reveal themselves as a product of mechanical reproduction, reflecting his practice of making artworks using commercial inkjet printers. The abstraction and physicality arrived at through the printing process communicates a vocabulary of uniqueness with its attendant skips, spurts, drips and smears…