See Stop Run

See Stop Run, a survey of Christopher Wool’s works of the past decade, opens in March 2024. The exhibition takes place on the entire 19th floor of an unoccupied space in the heart of the financial district. The artist has chosen an independent venue in order to escape the presumed neutrality of the “white cube” as an idealized context. The city permeates the exhibition through windows that wrap around the full 18,000 square foot installation.

Curated with Anne Pontégnie, the exhibition situates Wool’s work within a specific context, where the art and its environment interact. The exhibition emphasizes Wool’s complex image- making process and the interconnectivity between mediums: painting, sculpture, photography, and mosaic. This is the artist’s largest exhibition since 2014 and will run for a minimum of 4 months.

my earliest memory is coming home from school and talking with my mother… at the time we were learning to read from Dick and Jane.

mom: “hi chris how was school?”
me: “fine mom.”
mom: “what did you do today in school?”
me: “well mom we are learning to spell.”
mom: “oh how nice chris what can you spell?”
me: “well i can spell ‘spot’ the dogs name.”
mom: “ok chris how do you spell spot?”
me: “s…p…o…t…”
mom “very nice chris, now how do you spell stop??”….
(pause)
my brain completely short-circuited
run dog run…

Born 1955. Lives and works in New York City and Marfa Texas.

March 14 – July 28, 2024
(closed)

101 Greenwich St.
(entrance on Rector St.)
New York, N.Y. 10006
19th Floor

Free and open to the public.
Limited to 75 persons at a time.