Untitled A
Christopher Wool
American, born 1955
2021
An etching with aquatint in which Christopher Wool captures spontaneous, calligraphic gestures and ink washes to translate the energy of painting into the language of print.
A dense, central brown-black bloom reads like an inkblot or storm cloud, its edges softened by translucent aquatint washes and animated by looping, frenetic black lines and scattered droplets across the pale paper.
The work shows how contemporary artists use traditional printmaking processes to preserve painterly immediacy and chance, blurring the line between gestural abstraction and reproducible media.
Medium
Etching with aquatint
Dimensions
plate: 12 11/16 × 10 13/16" (32.2 × 27.5 cm); sheet: 20 × 17" (50.8 × 43.2 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Acquired through the generosity of Mary M. and Sash A. Spencer
Accession
389.2022.1
Palette
Exhibitions
