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Christopher Wool

‘Wool contrives to pack into his painting energy both abstract and concrete. By his reliance on the limits of the painting process, Wool makes impulsiveness and control, doubt and certainty, presence and absence come together in a single space. He captures a moment of oscillation, which is a priori imperceptible and inexpressible. In that moment, nothing and everything, the expert and the outsider, being and non-being all coexist. Here, where the meaning of system, value, and form are temporarily suspended, Wool has found a way to paint.’ (A. Pontégnie, “At the Limits of Painting,” in

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Christopher Wool — Over the course of his over four decades long career, Christopher Wool has reestablished and reasserted the primacy of painting, most notably the possibilities inherent within abstraction. Employing a variety of appropriated symbols, novel application techniques, and compositional variety in his work, Wool has found critical success trailblazing new forms of expression in an age oversaturated with communication. Wool’s art manifests a wholly unique power in its conceptual core – the idea of how to make a picture that resonates with self-contained and self-reflected authority in an age of visually overstimulated meaninglessness. Wool most often does so by drawing the viewer in to investigate the very nature of the painting itself, utilizing an economy of means that focusses one’s attention on only the most pertinent of questions, more how and why than what. This simplicity is what led him to the industrial stamp-roller frequently employed by urban slumlords to decorate dilapidated tenement buildings. Utilizing a basic floral motif, Wool coolly establishes in his early painting,

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