Christopher wool text paintings
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Christopher Wool
American painter
Christopher Wool (born 1955) is an American artist.[1] Since the 1980s, Wool's art has incorporated issues surrounding post-conceptual ideas.
Early life and career
Wool was born in Chicago, Illinois to Glorye and Ira Wool, a molecular biologist and a psychiatrist.[2] He grew up in Chicago.[3] In 1973, he moved to New York City and enrolled in Studio School studies with Jack Tworkov and Harry Krame.[2] After a short period of formal training as a painter at the New York Studio School, he dropped out and immersed himself in the world of underground film and music.[4] Between 1980 and 1984, he worked as part-time studio assistant to Joel Shapiro.[5]
Work
Wool is best known for his paintings of large, black, stenciled letters on white canvases.[6] Wool began to create word paintings in the late 1980s, reportedly after having seen graffiti on a brand new white truck.
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