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Wade Guyton | Whitney Museum of American Art

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Wade Guyton’s polyptych painting Untitled spans a monumental fifty feet and was created specifically for the long, narrow proportions of the gallery in Milan where it was first installed. Although made on preprimed linen traditionally used by painters, the work employed neither brush nor paint but was instead produced by a 44-inch-wide inkjet printer (Epson’s 9600 UltraChrome model, to be exact). Guyton folded each of eight canvases in half lengthwise and fed them through the machine twice, printing the same TIFF image file—a stack of seven black bands— once on each side; when unfolded and stretched on separate panels that are then hung five inches apart, the canvases merge into a rhythmic, undulating expanse of black and white intervals.

Wade Guyton 1972– Wade Guyton’s polyptych painting Untitled spans a monumental fifty feet and was created specifically for the long, narrow proportions of the gallery in Milan where it was first installed. Although made on preprimed linen traditionally used by painters, the work employed neither brush nor paint but was instead produced by a 44-inch-wide inkjet printer (Epson’s 9600 UltraChrome model, to be exact). Guyton folded each of eight canvases in half lengthwise and fed them through the machine twice, printing the same TIFF image file—a stack of seven black bands— once on each side; whe

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