The son of Ruthenian (Rusyn) immigrants from what is now eastern Slovakia, Warhol graduated in 1949 from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University), Pittsburgh, with a degree in pictorial design. He then went to New York City, where he worked as a commercial illustrator for about a decade.
Warhol began painting in the late 1950s and received sudden notoriety in 1962, when he exhibited paintings of Campbell’s soup cans, Coca-Cola bottles, and wooden replicas of Brillo soap pad boxes. By 1963 he was mass-producing these purposely banal images of consumer goods by means of photographic silkscreen prints, and he then began printing endless variations of portraits of celebrities in garish colours. The silkscreen technique was ideally suited to Warhol, for the repeated image was reduced to an insipid and dehumanized cultural icon that reflected both the supposed emptiness of American material culture and the artist’s emotional noninvolvement with the practic
Exhibition of recent immersive paintings by Rosson Crow on view at Galerie Nathalie Obadia
Rosson Crow, The Stars Did Fall (at the Sunken Gardens), 2020, Acrylic, spray paint, photo transfer, oil and enamel on canvas, 182,9 x 182,9 cm (72 x 72 in.).
PARIS
.-Galerie Nathalie Obadia is presenting Next Year at Marienbad, California-based artist Rosson Crows fourth exhibition. Her last show in Paris had taken place in 2013. Born in Dallas, in 1982, the artist graduated from the New York School of Visual Arts (2005) and Yale University (2006), and lives in Los Angeles, where she has been developing a pictorial work that has always been considered to be a powerful and pertinent contribution to the West Coasts artistic scene.
Art Industry News: Jeff Koons Has Joined MasterClass to Teach His Uniquely Cosmic Perspective on Making Art + Other Stories
Plus, the staff at Pittsburgh s Carnegie Museums vote to unionize and the Mapplethorpe Foundation is under scrutiny for taking a PPP loan.
Jeff Koons, mid-lesson. Courtesy of MasterClass.
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Carnegie Museums Staff Vote to Unionize – Employees at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museums are the latest in a wave of museum workforces to vote in favor of joining a union. Full-time and part-time staff at the Andy Warhol Museum, Carnegie Science Center, and Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History voted 278 to 75 to join the United Steelworkers’ 500-member United Museum Workers unit. (
Clarksville Now
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – The Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts (CECA) is pleased to announce Benjy Russell, from Dowelltown, and Karen Seapker, from Donelson, as the 2020-21 recipients of the Tennessee Artist Fellowship.
The CECA Tennessee Artist Fellowship celebrates contemporary art and supports the continued creative work of exceptional Tennessee artists. Unlike other fellowships, nominations and applications from artists are not solicited. A committee of APSU faculty compiles a list of outstanding artists from across the state and selects the fellowship recipient. Through the generous support of CECA, the selected artists receive $5,000 to aid in the creation of new artwork and $1000 for an artist lecture.
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