3Christopher Wool
Christopher Wool was born in Boston, in 1955, and since 1980, he focused more on his post-conceptual ideas.
Best known for his paintings of large, black, stenciled letters on white canvases, the American artist began to create word paintings in the late 1980s.
His famous painting, ‘Apocalypse Now’ (1988) was sold in November 2013 at Christie’s New York for an amazing price of $26.5 million.
Although he is best known as a painter, Christopher Wool has amassed a large body of black-and-white photographs taken at night in the streets between the Lower East Side and Chinatown.
‘East Broadway Breakdown’, his book reproducing all 160 photographs, was issued by Holzwarth Publications in 2004.
In 2012, the artists contributed the set design for ‘Moving Parts’, conceived by Benjamin Millepied’s L.A. Dance Project.
