U Sculpture (v. 5)
Rendered in highly polished mirrored stainless steel, Wade Guyton's *U Sculpture (v. 5)* extends his signature "U" motif from the two-dimensional plane into three-dimensional space. The reflective surface distorts and fragments the surrounding environment, implicating the viewer and the exhibition space as active components of the work. Like his inkjet-printed canvases, the sculpture interrogates the boundaries between mechanical reproduction, seriality, and the material presence of the art object.
- Medium
- mirrored stainless steel
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Contemporary Art Evening Sale
May 16, 2013
Artists in conversation
Jeff Koons
American · b. 1955
Koons similarly employs highly polished mirrored stainless steel to create sculptures that reflect and distort the surrounding environment and viewer, as seen in his Balloon Dog series. His work shares Guyton's industrial aesthetic, seriality, and conceptual interrogation of surface and material presence.
Anish Kapoor
British-Indian · b. 1954
Kapoor's large scale mirrored stainless steel sculptures, such as Cloud Gate, similarly fragment and warp the viewer's reflection and surrounding space as an essential component of the work. Both artists use reflective monochromatic surfaces to dissolve boundaries between object, environment, and observer.
Donald Judd
American · b. 1928
Judd's Minimalist stainless steel and industrial material sculptures share Guyton's commitment to seriality, geometric abstraction, and the interrogation of material presence within exhibition space. His repeated modular forms parallel Guyton's signature motif extended across multiple iterations.
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