Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Christopher Wool






'In a fugue of gestural restraint and release, Wool filters the fundaments of abstract painting through the gritty syntax of urban reality. By painting layer upon layer of whites and off-whites over silkscreened elements used in previous works -- monochrome forms taken from reproductions, enlargements of details of photographs, screens, and polaroids of his own paintings -- he accretes the surface of his pressurized paintings while apparently voiding their very substance.' (http://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/2010-05-25_christopher-wool/)

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