Untitled. 2008. Epson UltraChrome inkjet on linen. 84″ x 587″

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Untitled. 2008. Epson UltraChrome inkjet on linen

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Installation view at Friedrich Petzel Gallery. 2007

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Untitled. 2006. Epson UltraChrome inkjet on linen

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Untitled. 2007. Epson UltraChrome inkjet on linen

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Untitled. 2007. Epson UltraChrome inkjet on linen

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U. Sculpture (v. 8). 2008. Mirrored stainless steel. 56″ x 26.75″ x 24.25″

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American artist WADE GUYTON is an avowed conceptualist, attracted to forms and structures that, in his words, “contain their own internal logic”. Recently he has been using digital scanning, inkjet printing, photo-silk-screening and stenciling to make works that act like drawings, paintings, even sculptures.

“I’m too lazy to paint,” said the Tennessee-born, New York-based artist.

The resulting images looks like a painting and acts like a painting, so even if the thing was made by a printer; there is often a struggle between the printer and his material- and the traces of this are left on the surface- snags, drips, streaks, mis-registrations, blurs. On a theoretical level, it addresses the limits of painting, or rather the limiting way most people think about art, which depends on illusion and its perception. And GUYTON’s work is all about that.