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CHRISTOPHER WOOL (B. 1955)
Untitled
signed and dated in pencil 'Wool 2018' (lower edge) also printed in text on the verso
color lithograph
16 x 12 3/4 inches (40.6 x 32.4 cm)
Executed in 2018. This work is from an edition of unknown size with 32 artist's proofs. Published by Sharon Coplan Hurowitz and printed by Official Offset Corp; supervised by Universal Limited Art Editions and the artist. This work was published exclusively in select issues of W Magazine in November 2018.

This work is sold unframed.

PROVENANCE:
Official Offset Corp, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

NOTES:
Born in 1955 in Chicago, Christopher Wool is one of the most influential American painters of the post-conceptual generation, best known for his text-based paintings and raw, abstract compositions. Since the 1980s, Wool has challenged the conventions of painting through an evolving visual language marked by repetition, erasure, mechanical reproduction, and defiant anti-aesthetic. His works, whether composed of stenciled words, smeared silkscreen patterns, or mark-making, often oscillate between legibility and obliteration—conveying a restless energy that reflects the anxieties and disruptions of contemporary urban life.

This offset lithograph, produced in 2018 for W Magazine, captures Wool’s instinct for collision: between printing and painting, intention and accident, gesture and reproduction. The visceral red-and-black composition sits somewhere between a monotype and a silkscreen misfire—evoking both the urgency of action painting and the cool distance of mass production. Published by Sharon Coplan Hurowitz and printed by Official Offset Corp under the supervision of ULAE and the artist himself, the work reflects Wool’s ongoing dialogue with the legacy of printmaking as a conceptual medium.