Christopher Wool

Christopher Wool is a painter known for his bold, text-based works and abstract explorations of process and erasure. Born in Chicago, Illinois in 1955, he studied briefly at Sarah Lawrence College and then at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago before moving to New York City in the 1970s. Wool gained prominence in the late 1980s with his large-scale stenciled word paintings, featuring fragmented phrases rendered in stark black letters on white backgrounds. His later work incorporates silkscreen, layering, and overpainting techniques that interrogate authorship, repetition, and the limits of abstraction. Wool remains a central figure in contemporary art, celebrated for his raw, conceptual approach to painting