Artist’s exhibition For this project I made a deep research about Christopher Wool and his works, history and process of creating. After a long process of prototyping and refining, I created a poster and didactic graphic for special exhibition at the Art Institute. This project was challenging in the way of organizing information on large-scale formats and showing artist’s style in my own way. Original poster size is 24X36 inches. Gallery is 21X28 inches and walls are 15 inches tall.
Christopher Wool
Biography
1955 - born in Boston, MA (United States of America). Grew up in Chicago.
1973 - moved to New York City and enrolled in Studio School studies with Jack Tworkov and Harry Krame.
1980 - 1984 - worked as part-time studio assistant to Joel Shapiro.
Late 1980s - inspired by graffiti on a brand new truck, he began to create word paintings.
1988 - collaborative exibition and installation with Robert Gober at 303 Gallery.
1989 - has been named a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome.
Early 1990s - started to use silkscreen as a primary tool.
1992 - served as a DAAD Berlin Artist-in-Residence, and received the Wolfgang Hahn Prize
Mid 1990s-2002 - printed a book “East Broadway Breakdown” that is reproducing all 160 black-and-white photographs taken at night in the streets between the Lower East Side and Chinatown.
2006 - had a solo exhibition at Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills.
February 2012 - Untitled (1990) was sold At Christie's London for 4.9 million
November 2013 - art dealer Christophe van de Weghe bought Apocalypse Now (1988) for $26.4 million on behalf of a client at Christie's New York.
2015 - monumental black and white word painting Riot (1990) sold for $29.9 million at Sotheby's New York.
That same month, Untitled (1990), made with alkyd and graphite on paper and featuring the words 'RUN DOG EAT DOG RUN', realized $2.4 million, the record for a work on paper by the artist.
His style is an expression of his thoungts in an abstractive way. The influences
can be definitely found in conceptual art, Minimalism, and even Pop
rt and Fusion. Wool was persistent and used modern tools to perfect his
works like spray, screens, stencils, rags, solvents, air guns, etc. Wool saw
differently the possibilities of gestural mark-making on a surface and
even used photographs of his own paintings as sources for new paintings.
Also, he used particular surfaces like aluminum or linen grounds anew
through silkscreen, either alone on a surface or in combination with enamel.
can be definitely found in conceptual art, Minimalism, and even Pop
rt and Fusion. Wool was persistent and used modern tools to perfect his
works like spray, screens, stencils, rags, solvents, air guns, etc. Wool saw
differently the possibilities of gestural mark-making on a surface and
even used photographs of his own paintings as sources for new paintings.
Also, he used particular surfaces like aluminum or linen grounds anew
through silkscreen, either alone on a surface or in combination with enamel.
sketches for timeline:
GIF animation of exhibition proposal for museum space:
