The first major survey of post-conceptual artist’s work in the US, Christopher Wool assembled over fifty paintings and works on paper created from the mid-1980s to the time of the exhibition. Wool’s work uses letters, signs, and gestures to critically deconstruct the boundaries between abstract, representational, and conceptual art. In the mid-to-late 1980s, he began making paintings with stamps, word stencils, and wallpaper rollers, recasting words and patterns as readymades. Between 1993 and 1995, the artist focused on a series of paintings comprising layers upon layers of silkscreened graphics that effectively obscured themselves. Wool then experimented with spray gun painting, tracing obsessive black loops on aluminum panels; his latest works in the show returned to earlier roller and silkscreen patterns, blotting white paint over select parts.
Christopher Wool traveled to the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.
The exhibition was accompanied by a catalogue.
Christopher Wool was organized by Ann Goldstein, Assistant Curator, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.