WADE GUYTON
Objects Are Much More Familiar
January 17 - March 7, 2004
b.1972
Lives and works in New York City
Education
1996 - 1998 M.F.A. Hunter College, New York, NY
1990 - 1995 B.A. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Solo Exhibitions and Projects
2003 X, Power House, Memphis, TN
Elements of an Incomplete Map, Artists Space, New York, NY
1999 Against the new Passeism.
Understanding that this is only the beginning, hope for the end.
Build, Destroy, Do nothing, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Stranded, M.F.A. thesis exhibition
Hunter College, New York, NY
Bibliography
Artforum, January, 2003, p126 (illustrated). ‘First Take: Tim Griffin on Wade Guyton’
Artforum, June, 2003. David Rimanelli ‘Diary: May 11, Continuous Project’Flash Art International, July 2003 (illustrated). ‘Sculpture Forever’
The New Yorker, March 31, 2003, p 20. ‘Project Spaces’
Parkett, number 67, (illustrated). Lauri Firstenberg ‘Notes on Recent Appropriations
Artist's Statement
In “Objects are Much More Familiar”, Wade Guyton will be presenting drawings and new sculptures, in addition to some site-specific works.
He will be responding to the Power House building as well as his own X sculpture previously installed in the window earlier in July 2003.
The artist's “printer drawings” utilize torn pages from books that are then printed on with an inkjet printer, utilizing X's, U's and various graphic marks.
Similarly, the artist will deal with the surface of the Power House's walls, structural imperfections, and traces of the buildings previous state. His sculptures include bent Breuer chairs which transform functional objects into sculptures, bringing the chairs back in contact with their formalist beginnings.
The artist's interventions at Power House will self-critically address his own manner of working, while also using the building's history and the experiential and material remains of that history.