Christopher Wool's expansive exhibition opens at Gagosian London, highlighting interconnected practice
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Christopher Wool's expansive exhibition opens at Gagosian London, highlighting interconnected practice
Christopher Wool, 2025, installation view. Artwork © Christopher Wool. Photo: Maris Hutchinson. Courtesy the artist.



LONDON.- Gagosian opened an exhibition by Christopher Wool at its Grosvenor Hill location in London. Featuring over fifty works on paper, sculptures, and prints from the most recent period of his career, this long-awaited exhibition is the most expansive presentation of Wool’s work in London for many years and his third with the gallery. As in his latest self-staged exhibitions—last year in New York and this year in Marfa, Texas—the London exhibition highlights the essential interconnectivity of the artist’s practices, in which he continues to engage with the limits of abstraction. For Wool, process and subject go hand in hand.

The range of processes employed in each of Wool’s multilayered works on paper reveals the extraordinary breadth of his artistic strategies. He began to silkscreen his own works in the 1990s, flattening an image and applying it to canvas before adding gestures of paint. This approach has become more complex over time, as the artist explores the effects of repetition, scale, rhythm, and different means of overpainting, such as the looping line of an industrial spray gun. Further to these expressive marks of paint, Wool drags turpentine-soaked rags over the painted surface to efface his images in a haze of gray mist. In contrast to the monochrome palette he is often associated with, at Gagosian Wool imbues various works with pastel hues. By erasing, collaging, overpainting, and digitally modifying imagery from previous works, he creates something vitally new through a process of self-replication.

The cursive line of Wool’s sculptures—shown initially in his landmark survey at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, in 2013–14—echoes the gestural marks of his paintings. Four intimate and two large-scale sculptures in copper-plated steel and bronze are on view here. Their genesis lies in the arid landscape of Texas, where Wool divides his time between Marfa and New York. Wool collected pieces of old fencing and hay-baling wire for years before realizing their sculptural potential. At times these remain as found, and at others they are transformed into new forms and reimagined on a dramatic scale. Wool purposefully leaves details of the processes visible, such as welded joints, to stress the handmade quality of his works.

Two series of etchings from 2021 and 2023 also form part of the exhibition. The latter, Defenestration Suite, was made to illustrate What Just Happened (2023), a book of poetry by Richard Hell—a writer, musician, and longtime collaborator of Wool’s. Reminiscent of Wool’s iconic word paintings, letters and words are entangled with lines in these prints to test the meaning and visual resonance of language.

Currently on view, See Stop Run West Texas is a survey of Wool’s works from the past decade at the Brite Building in Marfa, organized by the artist with curator Anne Pontégnie. It is complemented by three large outdoor sculptures as well as a new 400-page book, to be published this fall. Featuring more than two hundred images, the book documents the first iteration of See Stop Run, which took place in 2024 on the nineteenth floor of an unoccupied space in New York’s Financial District. The city permeated the exhibition through windows that wrapped around the 18,000-square-foot installation.

Both of these installations emphasize Wool’s complex image-making process and the interconnectivity between mediums: painting, sculpture, photography, and mosaic.










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