Untitled
Wade Guyton American
Not on view
Renowned for paintings made without oil or acrylic but rather a large-format Epson printer, which he began to produce in the mid-2000s, Guyton created this work on a massive new machine through which he could pull even larger swaths of pre-primed linen. He had already experimented for some years with the variety of marks that could be generated from printing the same digitally generated image onto the absorbent surface of fabric which, unlike paper, catches and wrinkles when threaded through a printing bed. Here, with a monumental canvas yet more reduced image (a simple rectangle of black), each awkward pull allowed for a different composition that still bears the marks of something made by both hand and machine.
