Christopher Wool, artist and art
Born 1955, Birth Chicago Illinois, USA.
The artist lives and works in New York.
Christopher Wool is widely recognized as one of the world’s most important painters. His first one-man show was at the legendary Cable Gallery in 1984, and since then, he has showed his bold word paintings; edgy, energetic pattern paintings; and revolutionary, quietly startling manipulated abstract paintings in galleries and museums around the world.
Artist biography, artworks, statement, interview, review, exhibition:
You Make Me’ is an ambiguous phrase suggesting both coercion and completeness. Is it a statement about force or about making someone whole?
Works and biography
Painting about Painting
Images and photographs
Wool’s works are essentially a continuous dissolution and rematerialization of composition. They are a constant analysis of form, line, color, framework, arrangement and representation. The significance of his works is found in the suspensions and cancellations that define his pictures. Instead of a "concrete" statement, the pictures demonstrate the process of physical or intellectual work in the act of creating art and embody a constant awareness of the process of the genesis of the work itself…
I have taken things and made paintings without having permission. But in this case, I wouldn’t. Oh, and then it turned out I missed something when I painted Richard’s words.
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