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Christopher wool page from black book, 1989 complete book is a hardcover book, printed on smooth wove paper with title page and justification, unpaginated, bound as issued with ori. Christopher wool christopher wool, spokesman, from. Wool christopher page from black book 1989 mutualart. Christopher wool american artist for sale 2 listings. If there is an artwork by christopher wool that you are specifically looking for but not listed on this page, please feel free to get in touch and we would be happy to try and source it. Since the 1980s, american artist christopher wools art has incorporated issues surrounding postconceptual ideas, bringing the lineage of conceptual and minimalist art to bear on abstract painting. Christopher wool christopher wool, assassin, from black. Christopher wool guy hepner art gallery prints for.
Christopher wool is best known for his paintings of large, black, stenciled letters on white canvases, but he possesses a wide range of styles. Christopher wool born 1955, boston is an american artist. We have pioneered whole fields of collecting and transformed the market for modern design. Christopher wool is widely recognized as one of the worlds most important painters. His first oneman show was at the legendary cable gallery in 1984, and since then, he has showed his bold word paintings. Christopher wool page from black book, 1989 complete book is a hardcover book, printed on smooth wove paper with title page and justification, unpaginated, bound as issued with original black paper covers. Emerging in the 1980s new york art scene, christopher wool is best known for his graphic, black and white word prints and paintings. Request additional images or videos from the seller. Les graphiquants is a cool graphic design studio founded in 2008 in paris. This complete bound book of seventeen screenprints presents a sociological crosssection, as wool reduces consecutive words like terrorist and hypnotist to raw, unbridled text in a subversive. Since the 1980s, wools art has incorporated issues surrounding postconceptual ideas. Nov 18, 2008 christopher wool is widely recognized as one of the worlds most important painters. Published by gisela capitain, cologne, thea westreich, new york and printed by kare. Prints and multiples, framed set of 17 screenprints on wove paper, originally.
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Christopher wool christopher wool, page from blackbook. Not a prolific print maker, lougher contemporary is currently offering a selection of classic christopher wool prints, most notably from his 1989 black book. Hypocrite black book by christopher wool the instantly recognizable stencil lettering of christopher wool is at once serious and flippant. The featured selection of images comes from christopher wools 1989 work, black book. Black book by christopher wool guy hepner prints for sale. Herbert brandl, albert oehlen, christopher wool, narodni galerie, prague exhibition 1 of. The most common christopher prints material is cotton. Christopher wool, spokesman, from black book, 1989. He attended both sarah lawrence college, new york, and the new york studio school, new york. Folio, original black papercovered boards, light wear. Black book by christopher wool guy hepner art gallery prints. Wright is the premier auction house specializing in modern and contemporary design.
Best known for his textbased paintings including trbl and riot, christopher wool made his name in the 80s and hasnt looked back, constantly. About christopher wool page from black book, 1989 complete book is a hardcover book, printed on smooth wove paper with title page and justification, unpaginated, bound as issued with original black paper covers. This is cvsds second solo show with the artist, and it inaugurates the gallerys 2156 w. Page from black book celebrity by christopher wool for sale at frank fluegel gallery listed on printed editions. Christopher wool made a name in the new york art scene in the early 1980s. It is an oversized object, roughly twentythree inches tall, and contains forty pages bearing seventeen reproductions of enamel drawings. Christopher wool portraits black and white, set of six 2014 limited edition print. Gisela capitain, cologne, thea westreich, new york. His word paintings, which exemplify type as visual image, have become canonical. Richard hell was one of the originators of punk music. Listed at gallery price christopher wool began working on what became his signature black letters on white canvases in the 1980s.
Dempsey is pleased to present christopher wool, an exhibition of new works by christopher wool. The book is composed of 160 black and white photographs, all taken at night with a 35mm camera as the artist wandered the streets between the lower east side and chinatown, the neighborhood where he has lived and. Find an indepth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. Christopher wool prints and multiples 18 for sale at 1stdibs. The instantly recognizable stencil lettering of christopher wool is at once serious and flippant. At the heart of christopher wools creative project, which spans three decades of highly focused practice, is the question of how a picture can be conceived, realized and experienced today.
View and collect fine art from leading galleries and art dealers. The large black, stenciled letters of his word paintings, which contain either single or multiple words decontextualized and without punctuation, possess a graphic power and strangeness that is amplified. Influenced by the punk and no wave movements of the early 1970s, he is also know for his bleak photographic explorations of urban landscapes. Concurrent with christopher wool, the gallery is releasing a 64page catalog featuring images of works in the show, a conversation between john corbett and christopher wool, and a bonus cd of solo percussion by paal nilssenlove, the final concert at the original gallery.
Discover and source artworks by influential and collectable artists. Christopher wool, untitled, 2007, enamel paint on canvas courtesy of tate inextricably linked to his use of monochrome including oil paintings of large black stenciled letters on a white canvas, american artist christopher wools 1955 works explore the intersection and gaps between revealed and concealed. Wool is best known for his paintings of large, black, stenciled letters on white canvases. Christopher wool is an american abstract painter who emerged from the 1980s new york art scene. Buy page from black book celebrity by christopher wool. His early white canvases with black stenciled letters spelled out text like sell the house, sell the car, sell the kids in his 1998 work apocalypse now.
Apr 08, 2016 like johns, christopher wool has examined the relationship, and subsequent tensions, between text and image and between reading and seeing. He played in the first wave of bands that brought attention to cbgb and became famous in 1977 as the auteur of the album blank. Christopher wool medium illustrated book with 17 offset lithographs dimensions page each. Christopher wool is a contemporary american painter. Hypocrite black book by christopher wool guy hepner art. Buy and sell signed multiples and original paintings at fair prices on llery. Christopher wool black book 1989 available for sale artsy. Christopher wool was born in 1955 in chicago, illinois.
Untitled 1990 a masterpiece of word art by christopher wool. Our dedication to design drives what we do and who we are. This print illustrating the word assistant, was provided in his black book series, which consisted in an ensemble of 17 silkscreens on wove paper, each depicting words such as chameleon or insomniac. Christopher wool prints and artworks for sale from leading galleries and print studios.
W christopher wool limited edition prints limited edition prints. Christopher wool assistant, from the black book series. This work was included in wool s east broadway breakdown 2004 book, a project began in mid1990s, and finally completed in 2002. Black book by christopher wool black book exemplifies christopher wools use of the typographical word as a pictorial image. Book is from an edition of 350 and 8 artists proofs. This work was included in wools east broadway breakdown 2004 book, a project began in mid1990s, and finally completed in 2002. Did you scroll all this way to get facts about christopher prints. In another group of early paintings, wool used commercial rollers to apply decorative effects on aluminum panels, and he has. One of top contemporary artists in america, christopher wool is bestknown for his monumental word art made between the late1980s and early2000s consisting of black stencilled words on a white background.
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