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Artist Exhibitions:
Ames Guyton's art has been
exhibited in many local
galleries in Jacksonville and
St Augustine, Florida.
The Florida Department of
State sponsered a one-man show
of his art in the Florida
Supreme Court Building in
Tallahassee, Florida....
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Artist Reviews:
Ames Guyton utilizes the
latest in computer software
technology to create a series
of bold digital prints, which
are rich in color and abstract
in nature. He pushes this new
medium to the limits by
exploring unique and different
visual possibilities through
technical software such as
CAD, which is designed ...
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Artist Statement for Ames Guyton
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Ames Guyton is an architect with Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Columbia University in New York City. He has worked for many major architectural firms in New York City and Atlanta including Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer, one of the founders of Modern Architecture.
In addition to architecture Ames has created wood and marble sculpture, has designed over a hundred pieces of furniture, and is a nature photographer. He has photographed many of the buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, and has a special passion for North Carolina waterfalls.
Like most architects he has adapted to the new computer drafting technologies that have been evolving over the last few years. Within this medium he has begun to explore the artistic possibilities of the computer software originally designed for architectural CAD (computer aided design).
The result is a technology-based approach to abstract design. Like the free-hand artist he begins with simple lines, and arcs, rectangles, circles, and ellipses. Using the computer these can be converted into three-dimensional objects such as spheres, cubes, and pyramids; and ultimately very complex forms. Computer tools permit compositions to be mirrored and arrayed to produce even more complexity. Lighting effects most commonly used to illuminate architectural models have been adapted as an artist’s tool to accent and shade abstract forms. Photographic imagery may also be incorporated.
The result puts us on the threshold of a whole new world of creative possibilities. Here-to-fore fine artists achieved part of their reputation by mastering techniques for representing in oil or watercolor the subtle variations of value, tint, and saturation endemic to any object reflecting light from a source, including such objects as panoramic landscapes, still life, or skin-tones of a portrait. Computers offer lighting techniques that may, if skillfully used, accomplish the same effect.
Because it is technology based, it offers the possibility of incorporating an underlying rational geometric discipline that opens for us a system of creativity that can begin to approach the fundamental biological creation underlying all forms of life. Much of the beauty and visual wonder of our physical world is rooted in its life forms, be it a tree, a butterfly, or a flower, all of which have a genetic geometry.
Digital design offers us the possibility of contributing to the beauty of our Natural world by incorporating a systematic component to our quest for an aesthetic.
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