Christopher Wool

Known for his word paintings, white canvases with black stenciled letters spelling out text "Sell the house." In his early paintings, Wool used commercial rollers to apply decorative effects on canvas, and he has continued to explore pattern in his art. Incorporating media and techniques including photography, silkscreen, reproduction, overpainting, and erasing, often combining human and machine marks, as in his paintings in which he smudges black lines drawn with a spray gun into gray fields.