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GuytonWalker — "We were also playing with the idea of transformation, the idea of using something kind of promising and lush and also exotic…being brought into this sort of space as an image between something passing and something becoming.”

"We were also playing with the idea of transformation, the idea of using something kind of promising and lush and also exotic…being brought into this sort of space as an image between something passing and something becoming.”

GuytonWalker's silkscreen and digital inkjet on canvas work exists in a suspended moment between dissolution and emergence, layering rich, lush imagery that evokes both the exotic and the familiar. The artists harness the tension between the mechanical precision of silkscreen and the fluidity of digital inkjet processes to explore how images transform as they pass through different states of becoming. The work invites viewers to contemplate the threshold between what is fading and what is taking shape, rendering the canvas itself as a site of perpetual, poetic transition.

Medium: silkscreen, digital inkjet on canvas
Spotted At: Auction House · Phillips

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Contemporary Art Day Sale

May 16, 2014

Estimate: $100,000 – $150,000

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GuytonWalker, "We were also playing with the idea of transformation, the idea of using something kind of promising and lush and also exotic…being brought into this sort of space as an image between something passing and something becoming.”

Medium

silkscreen, digital inkjet on canvas

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Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

"We were also playing with the idea of transformation, the idea of using something kind of promising and lush and also exotic…being brought into this sort of space as an image between something passing and something becoming.”

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GuytonWalker, "We were also playing with the idea of transformation, the idea of using something kind of promising and lush and also exotic…being brought into this sort of space as an image between something passing and something becoming.”

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