"Terrorist" Page from Black Book
By Christopher Wool
Located in Saugatuck, MI
"Terrorist", a single page from Black Book by Christopher Wool, floated in a simple clean white wood frame under glass. Framed dimensions are 25.5" x 18.5"
Screen
RUN DOG RUN
By Christopher Wool
Located in Washington , DC, DC
Part of a special insert of a well respected art publication. They are a superb example of his use of stenciled letters in paintings. Wool’s paintings also resemble the Concrete p...
Paper, Lithograph
Untitled
By Christopher Wool
Located in Saugatuck, MI
Limited edition screen print from the deluxe edition of 100. Signed and numbered by artist. Accompanied by a signed and numbered limited edition hard cover book as well. This work is...
Screen
Untitled (The Show is Over), 1993
By Christopher Wool
Located in East Hampton, NY
Collaboration between Christopher Woll & Felix Gonzalez Torres. This is an offset lithograph / poster Rolled in a tube. Created originally in 1993 for the Printed Matter exhibit...
Lithograph
Christopher Wool is a contemporary American painter. In his paintings, Wool contrasts bold stenciled text or abstract brushwork with white backgrounds. In the stenciled works and prints, words run together and breaks arrive at the edges of the canvas, as seen in his Apocalypse Now (1988), which bears the phrase “SELL THE HOUSE SELL THE CAR SELL THE KIDS.”
“With the painting the inspiration comes from the process of the work itself,” Wool reflected. “Like music [making the work] is an emotional experience. It’s a visual language and it’s almost impossible to put words to it.”
Born on September 16, 1955 in Boston, MA, Wool studied briefly at Sarah Lawrence College, but quickly left to enroll at the New York Studio School. A contemporary of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Julian Schnabel, Cindy Sherman and others in New York’s downtown art scene in the 1980s, Wool introduced graffiti techniques to his work, later incorporating silkscreens and paint rollers.
Wool's work has been exhibited at numerous institutions around the world, including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst am Museum Ludwig in Cologne and the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Wool currently lives and works between Marfa, TX, and New York, NY with his wife the painter Charline von Heyl.
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