The central space with its white walls and high windows could be in New York; the adjacent rooms however have views out to the green grass and winter trees of Kensington Gardens, even though canvases are stacked against wall, as they are in Wade Guyton’s New York studio. On the walls are images which from a distance appear to be photographs; but closer up have a texture that could be paint, but is in fact ink. These 21st century canvases are created by Wade Guyton, not from paint but from digital technology, taking photographic, iphone, newspaper and other digital images, often torn, reassembled and printed using inkjet printers, and include images from his own studio in New York and of the new Freedom Tower on the site of the Twin Towers in New York.
Running alongside are cabinets in which injet-printed images have been printed over pages torn out from art catalogues, in the same way that artist’s sketchbooks often have new work drawn or painted over old, but in this case suggesting how 21st century technologies can replace traditional painting, perhaps never superseding it but adding a new dimension to art.
[…] to paintbrushes and canvases. Art today can be created from anything, including of course digital media. Perhaps this reflects how children create things from all sorts of objects they find lying […]