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Throughout his career, Wade Guyton has experimented with the ways in which digital technologies can redefine and further the discipline of painting. Guyton employs large-format printers to co-author paintings in which his pre-programmed abstract marks fall subject to the printers’ own collaborative and spontaneous interventions, causing smudges, hiccups, and other “printer errors”. Guyton’s emphasis on digital technology challenges "the limiting way most people think about art, which depends on illusion and its perception" (Linda Yablonsky, NY Times). Often employing his signature vernacular of “X” and “U”, Guyton denies a unilateral interpretation of his work. In the context of his work, the “X” might refer to negation, a loss of the artist as sole author. Or perhaps the “U” implies an indictment of the viewer: the “U” a double agent for “you”. Through his defiantly untraditional approach to “painting,” Guyton has opened up the significance for how paintings function in our post-digital age and the possibilities for aesthetic renewal.

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