Wade Guyton

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. A mixture of primary sources, letters and signs as well as drawings and scanned printed matter, are abstracted and made singular by pushing an Epson 9600 inkjet printer to its limits. These representative aspects of the paintings persist as a digital trace of their original selves. The colour gamut offered by the 9600’s Ultrachrome inks provides a resolutely contemporary palette from which these graphic marks and images emerge.

Wade Guyton has produced new large-scale printed paintings constituted of varied clusters and rows of Xs, a letter the artist often uses in his work. In this specific body of work, Guyton has folded the oversize linen surfaces to feed them through the printer, to bypass its width limitations. The resulting images’ misregistrations and asymmetries reveal this multi-step process.

Wade Guyton