Christopher Wool
09 Nov 2007 - 19 Jan 2008
CHRISTOPHER WOOL
"Pattern Paintings, 1987 - 2000"
Skarstedt Gallery is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition, Pattern Paintings 1987 – 2000 by Christopher Wool. This exhibition, comprised of paintings on aluminum and canvas as well as works on paper, demonstrates both the historical and self-reflective trajectory of Wool’s artistic painting process throughout the years. He applies paint with a range of techniques: rubber pattern rollers, stencils, silk–screen and spray paint. There is often an element of the pattern that is imperfect, which is in later works further distorted with bold blank strokes of solid color (or white). This formula of picture making calls attention to the surface of the painting, specifically the movement depicted as well as the existence of flatness.
In an article written by Madeleine Grynsztejn she states, “Conceptually, Wool’s deliberate revisions and reroutings suggest open-ended proposals, perpetually incomplete, provisional, and subject to further elaboration.” Like his contemporaries, namely Richard Prince and Albert Oehlen, Wool is an appropriator of his own work and ultimately employs an artistic hand without ever having to touch his canvas with a brush. By never conforming to the Aristotelian concept of a “painting,” his works parallel society by ceaselessly shifting in meaning.
Christopher Wool was born in 1955 and lives and works in New York City. He was granted a full retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in 1998 which traveled to the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA and Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland and more recently was honored with a retrospective at the Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg in 2006.
"Pattern Paintings, 1987 - 2000"
Skarstedt Gallery is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition, Pattern Paintings 1987 – 2000 by Christopher Wool. This exhibition, comprised of paintings on aluminum and canvas as well as works on paper, demonstrates both the historical and self-reflective trajectory of Wool’s artistic painting process throughout the years. He applies paint with a range of techniques: rubber pattern rollers, stencils, silk–screen and spray paint. There is often an element of the pattern that is imperfect, which is in later works further distorted with bold blank strokes of solid color (or white). This formula of picture making calls attention to the surface of the painting, specifically the movement depicted as well as the existence of flatness.
In an article written by Madeleine Grynsztejn she states, “Conceptually, Wool’s deliberate revisions and reroutings suggest open-ended proposals, perpetually incomplete, provisional, and subject to further elaboration.” Like his contemporaries, namely Richard Prince and Albert Oehlen, Wool is an appropriator of his own work and ultimately employs an artistic hand without ever having to touch his canvas with a brush. By never conforming to the Aristotelian concept of a “painting,” his works parallel society by ceaselessly shifting in meaning.
Christopher Wool was born in 1955 and lives and works in New York City. He was granted a full retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in 1998 which traveled to the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA and Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland and more recently was honored with a retrospective at the Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg in 2006.