"Christopher Wool on What Brought a ‘Sunday Painter’ Back to Life," Art and Design Section Exhibition Review, The New York Times, by Randy Kennedy, May 30, 2022. “I had been on the treadmill for so... Read full biography
"Christopher Wool on What Brought a ‘Sunday Painter’ Back to Life," Art and Design Section Exhibition Review, The New York Times, by Randy Kennedy, May 30, 2022. “I had been on the treadmill for so long. And then suddenly I felt like I could just be an artist again,” he says. His long obsession... Read full biography
"Christopher Wool on What Brought a ‘Sunday Painter’ Back to Life," Art and Design Section Exhibition Review, The New York Times, by Randy Kennedy, May 30, 2022. “I had been on the treadmill for so long. And then suddenly I felt like I could just be an artist again,” he says. His long obsession with photo books has now taken full flight. When the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum organized a retrospective of the paintings and photographs of Christopher Wool in 2013, the artist was to be found some... Read full biography
"Christopher Wool on What Brought a ‘Sunday Painter’ Back to Life," Art and Design Section Exhibition Review, The New York Times, by Randy Kennedy, May 30, 2022. “I had been on the treadmill for so long. And then suddenly I felt like I could just be an artist again,” he says. His long obsession with photo books has now taken full flight. When the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum organized a retrospective of the paintings and photographs of Christopher Wool in 2013, the artist was to be found some months beforehand not making new work or poring over exhibition models. Instead, he had decamped from New York entirely to live near a small printer in Verona, Italy, spending 12 hours a day on press for two weeks to ensure that the book for the show... Read full biography
"Christopher Wool on What Brought a ‘Sunday Painter’ Back to Life," Art and Design Section Exhibition Review, The New York Times, by Randy Kennedy, May 30, 2022. “I had been on the treadmill for so long. And then suddenly I felt like I could just be an artist again,” he says. His long obsession with photo books has now taken full flight. When the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum organized a retrospective of the paintings and photographs of Christopher Wool in 2013, the artist was to be found some months beforehand not making new work or poring over exhibition models. Instead, he had decamped from New York entirely to live near a small printer in Verona, Italy, spending 12 hours a day on press for two weeks to ensure that the book for the show achieved the precise feel that he wanted. “No other artist I’ve worked with has done something like that for a museum... Read full biography
Christopher Wool - Artist Info
About Christopher Wool: Books
Books & Publications (13)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
Art Metropole: The Top 100 (National Gallery of Canada) (Exhibition catalog)
2006
Scott, Kitty et al
137 pages
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004
McGowan, Alison C (Editor)
1,512 pages
Art at the Turn of the Millennium
1999
Larsen, Lars et all
561 pages (color)
Birth of the Cool From Georgia O'Keeffe to Christopher Wool (Exhibition catalog)
1997
Curiger, Brice
144 pages (color)
The Dakis Joannou Collection
1996
Deitch, Jeffrey
302 pages (color)
The Paine Webber Art Collection
1995
Flam, Jack; Donald Marron
304 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
Allegories of Modernism Contemporary Drawing (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Rose, Bernice
128 pages (color)
Von der Avantgarde bis zur Postmoderne/die Malerei des 20 Jahrhunderts
1991
Murken, Axel/Christa Murken
358 pages (color)
Word As Image American Art 1960-1990 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Bowman, Russell/Dean Sobel
172 pages (color)
The Binational American Art of the Late 80s (Exhibition catalog)