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Christopher Wool

Christopher Wool (Born 1955) is active/lives in New York.  Christopher Wool is known for Non objective photograph imagery, word play, photo books.

 "Christopher Wool on What Brought a ‘Sunday Painter’ Back to Life," Art and Design Section Exhibition Review, The New York Times, by Randy Kennedy, May 30, 2022

“I had been on the treadmill for so long. And then suddenly I felt like I could just be an artist again,” he says. His long obsession with photo books has now taken full flight.

When the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum organized a retrospective of the paintings and photographs of Christopher Wool in 2013, the artist was to be found some months beforehand not making new work or poring over exhibition models. Instead, he had decamped from New York entirely to live near a small printer in Verona, Italy, spending 12 hours a day on press for two weeks to ensure that the book for the show achieved the precise feel that he wanted.

“No other artist I’ve worked with has done something like that for a museum catalog,” said Katherine Brinson, the show’s curator. “In fact, I’ve never heard of another artist d   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 12736 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Christopher Wool

   Christopher Wool  Born:  1955
Known for:  Non objective photograph imagery, word play, photo books

 "Christopher Wool on What Brought a ‘Sunday Painter’ Back to Life," Art and Design Section Exhibition Review, The New York Times, by Randy Kennedy, May 30, 2022

“I had been on the treadmill for so long. And then suddenly I felt like I could just be an artist again,” he says. His long obsession with photo books has now taken full flight.

When the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum organized a retrospective of the paintings and photographs of Christopher Wool in 2013, the artist was to be found some months beforehand not making new work or poring over exhibition models. Instead, he had decamped from New York entirely to live near a small printer in Verona, Italy, spending 12 hours a day on press for two weeks to ensure th  ...  Displaying 750 of 12736 characters.

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