Christopher Wool
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Born: 1955

Hometown: Chicago, IL

Lives and Works: New York, NY

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Education: New York Studio School, New York, NY
New York University, New York, NY
BA, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY

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About The Artist

Starting out as a "Neo-Pop" painter, Christopher Wool explores painting's elusive and allusive qualities with a variety of methods including using commercial rollers to apply decorative patterns on white panels. "I became more interested in 'how to paint it' than 'what to paint,'" he claims. Wool's paintings about painting were engaging, gaining praise and collectors early on.

In the late 1980s he was inspired by the words "SEX and LUV" spray painted on a truck outside his studio, and he embarked on a series of bold text-based works known as "Black Book" paintings. According to art critic Ken Johnson, these were "some of the punchiest paintings in 1980s and 1990s." However, they represent only one aspect of Wool's œ“uvre. His intelligent and edgy work earned him a 1998 retrospective organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. He was also chosen to exhibit in ILLUMInations at the 54th Venice Biennale.

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Galleries

Luhring Augustine, New York, NY

Christopher Wool Permanent Collections

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Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Tate Modern, London, England
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Musée d'art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg, France
Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria

Christopher Wool Art

Works by the Artist