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Wade Guyton — “Then I kept looking at the structure and I realized, the metal was made from bending, and so I wondered what would happen, if I continued bending.”
Wade Guyton

“Then I kept looking at the structure and I realized, the metal was made from bending, and so I wondered what would happen, if I continued bending.”

Wade Guyton's stainless steel sculpture embodies a meditative exploration of the material's inherent properties, as the work traces the logical conclusion of a single industrial process taken to its expressive extreme. The piece emerges from a conceptual dialogue between observation and action, with Guyton interrogating how repetitive bending transforms rigid metal into something that carries the record of its own making. The resulting form exists as both object and argument, asking viewers to consider how structure and process are fundamentally inseparable.

Medium
stainless steel

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Contemporary Art Evening Sale

November 11, 2013

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Wade Guyton, “Then I kept looking at the structure and I realized, the metal was made from bending, and so I wondered what would happen, if I continued bending.”

Wade Guyton's stainless steel sculpture embodies a meditative exploration of the material's inherent properties, as the work traces the logical conclusion of a single industrial process taken to its expressive extreme. The piece emerges from a conceptual dialogue between observation and action, with Guyton interrogating how repetitive bending transforms rigid metal into something that carries the record of its own making. The resulting form exists as both object and argument, asking viewers to consider how structure and process are fundamentally inseparable.

Medium
stainless steel
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

American, Sculpture, Geometric Form, Metal Fabrication, Stainless Steel, Abstract, Minimalism, Contemporary

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