Christopher Wool: East Broadway Breakdown Special Edition Summer Shortlist 2022 exploring color

exploring color

and Vasilena Stoyanova

his oeuvre in general—and this body of work in particular—belies this allegiance by actually turning the logic of the readymade on its head

features the 1981 painting Untitled by Jean-Michel Basquiat

Christopher Wool: East Broadway Breakdown Special Edition Summer Shortlist 2022 exploring colorThis artists book reproduces a series of black and white photographs Christopher Wool took on New Yorks Lower East Side between 1994 and 1995. The series is named for the street on which Wool lived and worked and was shot at night using a 35mm camera. Recording the areas dilapidated storefronts, ramshackle staircases, and litter strewn sidewalks, the images confront the viewer with a set of consciously awkward formal arrangements, presenting a kind of