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Andy Warhol

Rorschach Paintings

September 21–October 19, 1996
980 Madison Avenue, New York

Andy Warhol, Rorschach, 1984 Synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen ink on canvas, 90 × 70 inches (228.6 × 177.8 cm)

Andy Warhol, Rorschach, 1984

Synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen ink on canvas, 90 × 70 inches (228.6 × 177.8 cm)

Andy Warhol, Rorschah, 1984 Synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 90 × 70 inches (228.6 × 177.8 cm)

Andy Warhol, Rorschah, 1984

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 90 × 70 inches (228.6 × 177.8 cm)

Andy Warhol, Rorschach, 1984 Synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 24 × 21 inches (61 × 53.3 cm)

Andy Warhol, Rorschach, 1984

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 24 × 21 inches (61 × 53.3 cm)

About

Gagosian Gallery is proud to present a comprehensive exhibition of Andy Warhol's series entitled Rorschach Paintings at both its SoHo and Madison Avenue locations. This major exhibition is the first dedicated to the Rorschach Paintings, and many of the works will be shown for the first time.

Painted in 1984, Warhol created the series specifically so that the paintings could be analyzed. "I was trying to do these to actually read into them and write about them, but I never really had the time to do that. So I was going to hire somebody to read into them, to pretend it was me, so that they'd be a little more . . . interesting."*

A catalogue with an essay by Rosalind Krauss published by Gagosian Gallery will accompany the exhibition.

* From an interview with Robert Nickas, "Andy Warhol's Rorschach Test," Arts Magazine, October 1986, page 28.

Christopher Makos, Andy Warhol at Paris Apartment Window, 1981

In Conversation
Christopher Makos and Jessica Beck

Andy Warhol’s Insiders at the Gagosian Shop in London’s historic Burlington Arcade is a group exhibition and shop takeover that feature works by Warhol and portraits of the artist by friends and collaborators including photographers Ronnie Cutrone, Michael Halsband, Christopher Makos, and Billy Name. To celebrate the occasion, Makos met with Gagosian director Jessica Beck to speak about his friendship with Warhol and the joy of the unexpected.

Jessica Beck

Andy Warhol: Silver Screen

In this video, Jessica Beck, director at Gagosian, Beverly Hills, sits down to discuss the three early paintings by Andy Warhol from 1963 featured in the exhibition Andy Warhol: Silver Screen, at Gagosian in Paris.

Alexander Calder poster for McGovern, 1972, lithograph

The Art History of Presidential Campaign Posters

Against the backdrop of the 2020 US presidential election, historian Hal Wert takes us through the artistic and political evolution of American campaign posters, from their origin in 1844 to the present. In an interview with Quarterly editor Gillian Jakab, Wert highlights an array of landmark posters and the artists who made them.

Allen Midgette in front of the Chelsea Hotel, New York, 2000. Photo: Rita Barros

I’ll Be Your Mirror: Allen Midgette

Raymond Foye speaks with the actor who impersonated Andy Warhol during the great Warhol lecture hoax in the late 1960s. The two also discuss Midgette’s earlier film career in Italy and the difficulty of performing in a Warhol film.

Andy Warhol, Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977, Polaroid Polacolor Type 108, 4 ¼ × 3 ⅜ inches (10.8 × 8.6 cm). The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

Andy Warhol: From the Polaroid and Back Again

Jessica Beck, the Milton Fine Curator of Art at the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, considers the artist’s career-spanning use of Polaroid photography as part of his more expansive practice.

Andy Warhol catalogue. Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, 1965.

Book Corner
On Collecting with Norman Diekman

Rare-book expert Douglas Flamm speaks with designer Norman Diekman about his unique collection of books on art and architecture. Diekman describes his first plunge into book collecting, the history behind it, and the way his passion for collecting grew.