
“Is it a painting or a process?....You take color out, you take gesture out --- and then later you can put them in. But it’s easier to define things by what they’re not than by what they are.” Christopher Wool
Christopher Wool's enamel on linen work confronts the viewer with the raw tension between image and method, stripping painting down to its most elemental decisions. The cold precision of industrial enamel applied to the organic weave of linen embodies Wool's signature push-and-pull — a practice built on subtraction, negation, and the gradual reintroduction of what was deliberately removed. In defining painting by what it refuses to be, Wool transforms absence itself into a generative, almost philosophical, artistic force.
- Medium
- enamel on linen
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
Contemporary Art Evening Sale
May 14, 2015
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