Description
Paintings and Works on Paper
Christopher Wool, Thomas Locher and Claudia Hart
Christopher Wool was born in Boston, USA in 1955.
Wool was raised in Chicago, but moved to New York in 1973 ,where he trained as a painter at the New York Studio School, before dropping out to explore the underground music and film scene.
He was a part-time studio assistant to Joel Shapiro between 1980 – 1984, though it wasn’t until the late 1980’s that Wool began making his now famous ‘word paintings’.
These pieces are made up of large, black, stenciled letters on white backgrounds, normally canvases, and Wool reportedly came up with the concept after seeing graffiti on a brand new white truck.
Christopher Wool lives and works in Marfa, Texas and New York City with fellow painter and wife Charline von Heyl.
Year: 1989-90
Medium: Offset lithograph
Size: 28.0 cm (w) x 43.0 cm (h)
Original folded condition, some yellowing at edges and creases where folded.
Extremely rare original exhibition poster (offset lithograph on white paper), for the show at Trans Avant-Garde Gallery (now Jack Hanley Gallery) in Austin, Texas in 1989 – 90 by Christopher Wool (significant contemporary American artist), Thomas Locher (German) and Claudia Hart (American).
More info re at Trans Avant-Garde Gallery / Jack Hanley Gallery:
Brad Novak
