CHRISTOPHER WOOL (born 1955)

Christopher Wool was born in Chicago, in 1955. Wool now lives and works in New York. Wool is best known for his paintings of large, black, stenciled letters on white canvases. However, Wool possesses a wide range of style- using a combined array of painterly techniques, including spray paint, silkscreen, and hand painting. Wool provides tension between painting and erasing, gesture and removal, depth and flatness.