Christopher wool sculpture

Christopher Wool born is an American artist.

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Wool is best known for his paintings of large, black, stenciled letters on white canvases. Using a system of alliteration, with the words often broken up by a grid system, or with the vowels removed as in 'TRBL' or 'DRNK' , Wool's word paintings often demand reading aloud to make sense. At Gallery in , Wool and fellow artist Robert Gober presented a collaborative exhibition and installation which included Wool's seminal text-based painting, Apocalypse Now He draws lines on the canvas with a spray gun and then, directly after, wipes them out again with a rag drenched in solvent to give a new picture in which clear lines have to stand their own against smeared surfaces.

Writing in , in The New York Times , Ken Johnson highlighted Wool's response to an observation made on the street as significant, "in the s, Christopher Wool was doing a Neo-Pop sort of painting using commercial rollers to apply decorative patterns to white panels.

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One day he saw a new white truck violated by the spray-painted words 'sex' and 'luv. Wool made his own painting using those words and went on to make paintings with big, black stenciled letters saying things like 'Run Dog Run' or 'Sell the House, Sell the Car, Sell the Kids. Although Wool is best known as a painter, he has amassed a large body of black-and-white photographs taken at night in the streets between the Lower East Side and Chinatown.

Originally begun in the mids, the project was resumed and completed in East Broadway Breakdown , a book reproducing all photographs, was issued by Holzwarth Publications in Dance Project. In , he had a solo exhibition at Gagosian Gallery , Beverly Hills. Wool's Word paintings made between the late s and early s are the most sought-after pieces on the art market; as of , seven "word" works feature in Wool's top ten auction sales.

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