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February 9 - June 28, 2019

Maybe Maybe Not: Christopher Wool and the Hill Collection

Installation photo of two large black and white abstract works hang on floating gallery walls with...
Installation view Maybe Maybe Not: Christopher Wool and the Hill Collection © Christopher Wool © Hill Art FoundationPhoto by Matthew Herrmann
Multiple floor view of the exhibition space with multiple abstract works of different sizes on...
Installation view Maybe Maybe Not: Christopher Wool and the Hill Collection © Christopher Wool © Hill Art FoundationPhoto by Matthew Herrmann

Maybe Maybe Not presents an emblematic selection of the work of American artist Christopher Wool. It inaugurates the exhibition program of the Hill Art Foundation, a cultural center conceived to offer broad public access to the seminal collection of contemporary and historical works assembled by J. Tomilson and Janine Hill over the past four decades.

Since coming to prominence in the 1980s, Christopher Wool has conducted a richly nuanced investigation of the possibilities of pictorial composition. This presentation of paintings, works on paper,  photographs and prints encapsulates the evolution of the artist’s career, ranging from early experiments with readymade forms in his pattern and word paintings to more recent explorations of spontaneous gesture and digital intervention. Threading through Wool’s use of stenciled flowers, wildly looping spray paint, passages of violent erasure, and silkscreened apparitions of his own past imagery is a tension between freedom and constraint that has always animated his work.

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a black and white photograph of a dirt road with a turn ahead, leading into many trees
Road, 2018Portfolio of 18 gelatin silver printsFrom an edition of 12 and 3 artist's proofs© Christopher Wool; Courtesy of Luhring Augustine, New York
a black and white photograph of a dirt road with surrounding trees
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a black and white photograph of a dirt road with truck markings and fences and trees on the side...
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a black and white photograph of a dirt road
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a black and white photograph of a dirt road with a large puddle of muddy water situated in the...
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a black and white photograph of a dirt road that leads to many trees ahead
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a black and white photograph of a dirt road with truck markings
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a black and white photograph of a dirt road that diverges into two roads
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a black and white photograph of a dirt road that splits to two ahead
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a black and white photograph of a dirt road with many rocks and a turn ahead
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a black and white photograph of a dirt road with trees that are casting shadows to the ground
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a black and white photograph of a dirt road with a turn ahead
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a black and white photograph of a dirt road with a turn ahead
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a black and white landscape photograph of cloudy sky looming over a dirt road with truck markings...
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black and white photograph of a rocky dirt road with crooked fences and trees on the side of the...
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a black and white landscape photograph of cloudy sky looming over a dirt road with a turn ahead
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black and white photograph of a mud road with truck markings
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a black and white photo of a dirt road with dead trees and bushes on the side of the road
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Black and white toned image with artwork on walls and long marble conference towards the center...
Installation view Maybe Maybe Not: Christopher Wool and the Hill Collection © Christopher Wool © Hill Art FoundationPhoto by Matthew Herrmann
Black and white image of objects and flora located in dirt area
Yard, 2018Portfolio of 24 gelatin silver printsFrom an edition of 12 and 3 artist's proofs© Christopher Wool; Courtesy of Luhring Augustine, New York
Black and white image of objects and flora located in dirt area
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Black and white image of objects and flora located in dirt area
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Black and white image of objects and flora located in dirt area
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Black and white image of objects and flora located in dirt area
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Black and white image of rubber wheel objects and flora located in dirt area
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Black and white image of objects and flora located in dirt area
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Black and white image of objects and flora located in dirt area
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Black and white image of objects and flora located in dirt area
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Black and white image of objects and flora located in dirt area
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Black and white image of objects and flora located in dirt area
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Black and white image of objects and flora located in dirt area
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Black and white image of objects and flora located in dirt area
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Black and white image of objects and flora located in dirt area
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Black and white image of rubber, metal objects and flora located in dirt area
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Black and white image of objects and flora located in dirt area
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Black and white image of objects and flora located in dirt area
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Black and white image of objects and flora located in dirt area
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Black and white image of objects and flora located in dirt area
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Black and white image of objects and flora located in dirt area
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Black and white image of objects and flora located in dirt area
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Black and white image of objects and flora located in dirt area
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Black and white image of objects and flora located in dirt area
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Photography has long played an integral role in Wool’s practice, and this exhibition debuts two new photographic series. Whereas his previous work in the medium focused on scenes of alienation and degradation in the urban landscape, this more recent production documents the landscape of West Texas, where the artist has a home. Employing a disarming convergence of exposures, Yard locates unexpected sculptural vignettes in the ramshackle detritus surrounding semi-rural dwellings, while Road captures empty stretches of rough, overgrown track in which a destination is always deferred.

This exhibition will be accompanied by a series of educational programs and partnerships with New York City schools. 

© Christopher Wool. Video by Matthew Herrmann.
Photo of a painting with bold black flower design with layers of white paint on a soft white background
Installation view Maybe Maybe Not: Christopher Wool and the Hill Collection © Christopher Wool © Hill Art FoundationPhoto by Matthew Herrmann
View of a bronze equestrian statue one a pedestal inside a white-walled niche
Installation view Maybe Maybe Not: Christopher Wool and the Hill Collection © Christopher Wool © Hill Art FoundationPhoto by Matthew Herrmann
Installation photo of three large abstract works hang on floating gallery walls with window views...
Installation view Maybe Maybe Not: Christopher Wool and the Hill Collection © Christopher Wool © Hill Art FoundationPhoto by Matthew Herrmann
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Bold black flower design with layers of white paint on a soft white background

Christopher Wool
Untitled, 1994
Enamel on Paper

Black flora pattern rolled evenly onto a white background

Christopher Wool
Untitled, 1988
Enamel on paper

An abstract painting with a deep taupe background and bright white roller painted streaks in the...

Christopher Wool
Maybe Maybe Not, 2003
Enamel and silkscreen ink on linen

Gestural gray toned erasure marks throughout the background with looping spray paint black design...

Christopher Wool
Untitled, 2007
Enamel on linen

Abstracted black ink drip designs on a white background

Christopher Wool
Untitled, 2015
Enamel and silkscreen ink on linen

Red looping spray painted design with white and red impasto paint marks located toward the center...

Christopher Wool
Untitled, 2001
Silkscreen ink on linen

Black looping spray painted design on a white background

Christopher Wool
The Flam, 2001
Enamel on linen

Abstracted black ink blotched design on a white background

Christopher Wool
Untitled, 2018
Enamel and silkscreen ink on linen

4 framed etchings displayed horizontally. They depict black abstract designs on soft white backgrounds.

Christopher Wool
Untitled, 2014
4 softground etchings with drypoint
From an edition of 20 and 3 artist’s proofs

Bold, black text that spells out You Make Me on a white, pencil grid background in a white frame.

Christopher Wool
Untitled (You make me), 1997
Enamel on paper

8 neutral-toned lithographs on paper that depict text with overlapping abstract designs

Christopher Wool
a.k.a., 2016
Portfolio of 8 lithographs on paper
From an edition of 29 with 8 artist’s proofs and 4 printer’s proofs
Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York

3 framed etchings displayed horizontally. They depict black abstract designs on soft white backgrounds.

Christopher Wool
Untitled, 2014
2 drypoints and 1 softground etching with drypoint
From an edition of 20 and 3 artist’s proofs

Installation photo of a bronze sculpture that resembles a cross-shaped pipe inside a playpen situated...

Robert Gober
X Pipe Playpen, 2013-2014
Bronze, paint

three black and white photographic prints framed and hanging on the wall

Christopher Wool
Road, 2018
Portfolio of 18 gelatin silver prints
From an edition of 12 and 3 artist’s proofs
Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York

Black flower design layered on a white background

Christopher Wool
Untitled, 1993
Enamel on aluminum

Layered black flower patterns on a white background

Christopher Wool
Your Sweetness is My Weakness, 1995
Enamel on aluminum

Black and red blotch design on a white background

Christopher Wool
Untitled, 2014
Monotype over photogravure

Black and red blotch design on a white background

Christopher Wool
Untitled, 2014
Monotype over photogravure

Black and red blotch design on a white background

Christopher Wool
Untitled, 2014
Monotype over photogravure

Bold black text spelling SPOKESMAN on a white background

Christopher Wool
Untitled, 1989
Enamel and acrylic on aluminum

three black and white photographic prints installed on a wall

Christopher Wool
Yard, 2018
Portfolio of 24 gelatin silver prints
From an edition of 12 and 3 artist’s proofs
Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York

View of a bronze equestrian statue one a pedestal inside a white-walled niche

Giuseppe Piamontini
Prince Ferdinando di Cosimo III on Horseback, cast by 1717
Bronze

An abstract sculpture with a rectangular base positioned centrally in an outdoor terrace

Christopher Wool
Untitled, 2013
Bronze and copper plated steel

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