Christopher Wool Prints

Christopher Wool‘s limited edition prints distill his exploration of text and abstraction, probing the boundaries of painting and printmaking. These fine art prints delve into the dynamics of form, texture, and language, engaging with the deconstruction of symbols in contemporary culture.

Christopher Wool is an American contemporary artist, who has been pushing the boundaries of abstract painting for over 30 years. In his paintings he brings together figuration, abstraction and a wide array of media, including painting, drawing, printmaking, stencils, paint rollers and industrial techniques. Wool approaches his works as open-ended experimentation sites, in which images are created before being subjected to various disruptive processes. By breaking order through repetition and layering, recurring motifs, erasures and reproduction of errors, the artist creates a tension between light and dark, depth and flatness. His famous large-scale “gray paintings” emerge from a cycle of addition and subtraction, as tangles of black lines are repeatedly wiped into fields of hazy washes. Another important body of work are his “word paintings”, in which he stencils black letters onto white canvas. Christopher Wool has exhibited at the Guggenheim (New York), Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Wiener Secession (Vienna), Kunsthalle Basel and MOCA (Los Angeles) among others, and his work belongs to the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Centre Pompidou (Paris) and Tate London. Wool was born in Boston in 1955, and lives and works in New York City.

Auction record: US$29.9m, Sotheby’s, 2015

Christopher Wool Prints

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