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Party with Andy: Big Boogie Woogie Party
Piet in Pittsburgh
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Los Angeles born and based artist Glenn Kaino specializes in large-scale installation pieces seven of which are in this exhibition. These works were created from 2000 to 2007 including Blue, Desktop Operation: There’s No Place Like Home (10th Example of Rapid Dominance: Em City), Simple System For Dimensional Transformation, and A Plank for Every Pirate among others. |
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Along with these two new exhibits there are three others than should not be missed starting with a sampling from the Bank of New York Mellon's collection of contemporary prints. The eighty-three works include prints from Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Frank Stella, James Turrell, Jennifer Bartlett, Vija Celmins, Sol Lewitt, Al Held, and Ed Ruscha.
German photographer Martin Klimas draws from the Impressionist ideal of 'a moment in time' in a unique applique: porcelain figures at the moment of impact with the ground.
As Thomas Sokolowski, director of The Andy Warhol Museum explained, "Martin Klimas’ remarkable photographs combine up-to-date photographic technology with one of the most traditional of all art forms, the ceramic figure. While at first glance his interventions with the tabletop figurines might be seen as destructive and disrespectful of their form and medium, further observation shows that his actions, outside of the frame, enliven the porcelain sculptures and elevate them from the realm of mere ‘dustcatchers’. Each of the figures, while literally coming apart at the seams, is imbued with a ferocious energy rarely associated with the field of decorative arts."
Title: Entrance to The Andy Warhol Museum
with Andy Warhol's Self-Portrait painting and wallpaper, 1994
Photo: Paul Rocheleau
The Andy Warhol Museum,
Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
© AWF
Image Courtesy: The Warhol, Pittsburgh
American Dadaist Neke Carson, using a variety of techniques, has created portraits of some of his favorite people and characters such as Andy Warhol, Desi Arnaz, and Fred Flintstone.
Last year Carson began a series with just the eyes as the focal point of the sitting.
The Warhol has a complimentary archival exhibition Neke Paints Andy ’72. For the first time the material chronicling the creation of Carson’s 1972 painting, Portrait of Andy Warhol. Feature are Warhol’s Polaroids, which were later compiled into Wais Red Book no.129, and the video diary shot during the session at the Factory. The painting was stolen in 1979 and eventually revoered. This is the first time in nearly 30 years that Carson has permitted the work to be publically on display.
Contemporary Prints from The Bank of New York Mellon Collection
Eyeball Portraits and Beyond plus Neke Paints Andy’ 72,
Ceramic Explosion: The Work of Martin Klimas
through June 1 2008
Piet (Mondrian) in Pittsburgh and Glenn Kaino
May 3 – August 31, 2008
The Warhol, Pittsburgh: