Throughout his diverse practice spanning painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, and bookmaking, Wade Guyton (b. 1972) demonstrates an ongoing preoccupation with the potentiality and limitations of digital imagery. Much of his work centers on the deliberate misuse of everyday digital technologies, such as the inkjet printer or computer scanner, in order to transform an image or disrupt its typical paths of circulation and reproduction. In this untitled painting from 2016, Guyton has printed an image showing an overhead view of a series of worn-down black wooden floorboards, with a lone shoe at the bottom left suggestive of a figural presence. The patterns of discolored wear and the vertical striations distinguishing the individual boards create a composition that is reminiscent of postwar gestural abstraction yet Guyton complicates such associations through the digital printing process and the referentiality of the source image.