Wade Guyton

Wade Guyton, Petzel, New York, 1.16.14 - 2.22.14

Wade Guyton, Petzel, New York, 1.16.14 - 2.22.14 is the long-awaited volume that documents a one night only performance hosted at Petzel Gallery as part of Guyton's seminal 2014 exhibition, in which the artist made long horizontal black paintings stretched to precisely fit the gallery walls.

In 2007, Guyton showed a series of black paintings made with his Epson 9600 printer and covered the gallery's concrete floor with a facsimile of his studio's plywood floor. For the 2014 exhibition, he made five new works on linen using the same digital file from 2007, this time enlarged to accommodate the increased width of an Epson 11880. The works were turned on their sides, hung horizontally and stretched to fit the gallery walls. Two of them were jammed in a corner. In addition to the five paintings, he presented a new wood and concrete sculpture that took its form from the coat check counter at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, where concurrently he had installed four paintings for the International.

On February 17, 2014 the gallery hosted performances by James Campbell, I. U. D., and Blondes. Wade Guyton, Petzel, New York, 1.16.14 - 2.22.14 features over 400 illustrated pages of documentary footage from that performance and includes an essay by art historian Bettina Funcke entitled "Guyton's Rooms." The book was designed by Wade Guyton, Joseph Logan, and Zach Steinman.