Wade Guyton

Wade Guyton, born in 1972, is a New York-based American artist who has exhibited at the Whitney Museum in New York and in several international venues, including Portikus and Museum Ludwig. At Bukowskis he is showing a work that could be said to represent the most basic element for any artist – his studio floor. At Tensta Konsthall, this forms the entire floor in the exhibition area. Here, it is presented as a minimalist abstract work. The work symbolises the arduous conditions of the artist life – where renting a studio space is a financial challenge for most artists (including Wade Guyton in the past) – while referring to American utopian here-and-now minimalism (and criticising it). Wade Guyton is represented in New York by Friedrich Petzel Gallery, in Milan by Gio Marconi and Galerie Francesca Pia in Zürich.