In-your-face, achingly simple, deceptively frank, the work of
Christopher Wool is so very New York. Though he owes a debt to abstract expressionism and pop art, he completely
transcends��ven demolishes��hese genres. Whether it�� a text-based painting or an abstract spray-painted piece, his work is immediately engaging. Wool questions painting, like many other
artists in his generation, but he doesn�� provide any easy answers.
��he harder you look the harder you look,��he puts it in one of his word paintings, and that is an excellent example
of how he states the obvious whilst provoking us to think deeper about what seems obvious.
