The Andy Warhol Foundation

#WarholWednesday⁠ Before achieving international fame as a Pop artist and cultural icon, Warhol was a highly successful commercial illustrator for a variety of clients including Harper’s Bazaar, Tiffany & Co. and Vogue, among others. Throughout his career, Warhol pursued a number of different business ventures that included music production and promotion, films, books, magazines, endorsing products, real estate. He famously stated, “Business art is the step that comes after art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist. Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art.” ⁠ ⁠ In 1985 Warhol became the first artist commissioned to collaborate with Absolut Vodka resulting in one of the most successful ad campaigns of the 20th century. Encouraged by Absolut to suggest other artists to collaborate, Warhol recommended two upcomers of the time, Keith Harring and Kenny Scharf. Warhol's iconic brand collaboration would eventually inspire other brand collaborations that has included artists like Ed Ruscha, Louise Bourgeois, Nam June Paik, Sylvie Fleury and many others. ⁠ .⁠ ⁠ 1. Andy Warhol, Absolut Vodka, 1985. Synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen ink on canvas, 54 x 42 inches. ©The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.⁠ ⁠ 2. Andy Warhol, Absolut Vodka (double), 1985. Synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen ink on canvas, 40 x 40 in. ©The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.⁠ ⁠ 3. Andy Warhol, Absolut Vodka, 1985. Polacolor ER, 4 ¼ x 3 5/8 inches (top left and bottom right). Black and white silver gelatin prints, 10 x 8 in (top right and bottom left). ©The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. (all)⁠ ⁠ 4. Andy Warhol, Absolut Vodka, 1985. Synthetic polymer paint on HMP paper, 32 x 23 ½ in. ©The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.⁠ ⁠ 5. Andy Warhol, Absolut Vodka, 1985. Vintage poster, 45 ¼ x 37 in. ©The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ @AbsolutVodka #AbsolutVodka #AbsolutArt #WarholFoundation #AndyWarhol #Warhol #BusinessArt #Artist #ArtistCollaboration @Polaroid #Polaroid #Photography #Painting #VintagePoster⁠

Closing on July 3rd is Monica Martinez-Diaz's exhibition "A Trajectory of Grief" at #WarholGrantee Women and Their Work. Through large-scale photographic installations and series of photographs the artist explores her grief of losing of her grandfather. Martinez-Diaz's images reflect on the concepts of life and loss while fostering a dialogue between domestic spaces, objects, and mourning, and presenting beauty tinged imagery with an undertone of sadness.⁠ ⁠ The Foundation supports Women and Their Work for advancing new ideas in contemporary art created by woman that live and work in Texas and beyond.⁠ .⁠ Monica Martinez-Diaz, I felt the love of my ancestors, when he became one of them, 2023. Inkjet print, 37 x 25 inches.⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ @monicamartinez_studio #MonicaMartinezDiaz @WomenandTheirWork #WomenandTheirWork #WarholFoundation #AndyWarhol #Warhol #Philanthropy #WomenArtists #Photography #ContemporaryPhotography #grief

The #WarholFoundation funded exhibition, “Firelei Baez”, on view at the ICA Boston, is the first North America survey of Dominican Republic-born, multidisciplinary artist, Firelei Baez. Drawing on the disciplines of anthropology, geography, folklore, fantasy, science fiction, and social history, Baez disrupts fixed notions of race, gender, and nationality. The artist’s paintings feature layered uses of pattern, decoration, and saturated color, frequently combining gestural mark-making with precise draftsmanship and often featuring maps mase during colonial rule of the Americas. Baez’s considerations of hybridity, alternate histories and proposed futures are elevated even further in her installations that create three dimensional multisensory environments.⁠ ⁠ The Foundation supports this exhibition for highlighting the work of an artist whose explorations of abstraction and figuration within the politics of race, national identity, and cultural heritage has made her work increasingly resonant in conversations on the power of contemporary art to articulate alternative histories.⁠ .⁠ 1. Firelei Báez, Sans-Souci (This threshold between a dematerialized and a historicized body), 2015. Acrylic and ink on linen, 108 × 74 inches. Photo by Oriol Tarridas. © Firelei Báez⁠ ⁠ 2. Firelei Báez, Untitled (Temple of Time), 2020. Oil, acrylic, and inkjet on canvas, 94 1/2 × 132 3/8 × 1 5/8 inches. Photo by Phoebe d’Heurle. © Firelei Báez.⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ @FireleiBaez #FireleiBaez @ICABoston #InstituteofContemporaryArt #ICABoston #WarholGrantee #AndyWarhol #Warhol #Philanthropy #ContemporaryArt #Contemporarypainting #DominicanArtist #MultidisciplinaryArtist ⁠

Opening today, Sunday, June 30th at #WarholGrantee PARTICIPANT INC. is “Polaris” a solo exhibition of silver gelatin prints by artist Patrice Aphrodite Helmar. This exhibition focuses in on a fragment of a larger series of portraits and landscapes created in the artist’s hometown of Juneau, Alaska between the years 2020 and 2023. Helmar describes these photographs brimming with candor and care as explorations of “the dramatic potential and complexity of returning home.” The artist challenges both known interpretations of the unique capital city and historically prevalent methods of photography at large— rejecting the voyeuristic tendencies of image makers from upper class backgrounds with little to no connection to the people and places they capture. Instead, opting not to document or sensationalize working class and queer life but rather referencing their own background to author alternative framings of how their communities can exist in contemporary culture. ⁠ ⁠ The Foundation supports PARTICIPANT INC. for its over twenty-year commitment to bringing radically marginalized art into public view.⁠ .⁠ 1. Patrice Aphrodite Helmar, Shaft, 2020, gelatin silver print, 20 x 24 inches. ⁠ 2. Patrice Aphrodite Helmar, ⁠ Dolly Beach, 2020, gelatin silver print, 20 x 24 inches.⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ #PatriceAphroditeHelmar @PatriceHelmar #PARTICIPANTINC @participantafterdark #WarholFoundation #AndyWarhol #Warhol #Philanthropy #ContemporaryArt #ContemporaryPhotography #Alaska #blackandwhitephotography #darkroom #largeformatphotography #selfportrait ⁠

The #WarholFoundation funded exhibition “Taking Care: The Black Angel of Sea View Hospital” on view at the Staten Island Museum highlights the work, lives, and legacy of the Black nursing staff who were at Seaview Hospital when a breakthrough treatment for tuberculosis was tested in 1951. This group of nurses—who came to be known as the “Black Angels”—broke racial barriers and risked their lives to care for patients and administer the clinical trials that forever changed the trajectory of the disease. In addition to their pioneering work in the hospital, they also created professional, religious, and activist organizations throughout the region. Presented concurrently is Back and Song, a meditative film installation by artists Elissa Blount Moorhead and Bradford Young. This installation considers the labor and care provided by generations of Black healers and their histories of contribution to and resistance against Western medicine’s flawed and discriminatory structures.⁠ ⁠ The Foundation supports this exhibition for presenting an artist-driven investigation into local history that makes an important contribution to national conversations on Black history, healthcare, and the labor of Black healers.⁠ .⁠ 1. Back and Song, Installation Detail. 2022, Elissa Blount Moorhead, and⁠ Bradford Young.⁠ ⁠ 2. Seaview Hospital, December 1961, Collection of NYC Municipal Archives.⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ @StatenIslandMuseum #TakingCare #BlackAngels #SeaViewHosptial #WarholGrantee #AndyWarhol #Warhol #Philanthropy #HealthcareWorkers #Nurses #BlackNurses #ImmersiveFilm #InstallationArt⁠

#PhilosophyFriday⁠ “I think everybody should like everybody.” – Andy Warhol⁠ .⁠ Andy Warhol, Self-portrait with Jade Jagger, 1973. Polaroid Type SX-70, 4 ¼ x 3 3/8 inches. ©The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. ⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ #WarholFoundation #AndyWarhol #Warhol @JadeJezebelJagger #JadeJagger @Polaroid #Polaroid #Photography #Artist #1970s

Now on view at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) is #WarholFoundation funded exhibition, “Like Magic”. This exhibition brings together artists who employ technologies of magic to resist systems that attempt to surveil and control people’s lives and stories, often because of their race, ability, sexuality, gender identity, indigeneity, or immigration status. The ten artists in Like Magic explore their own relationships to what I think of as technologies of magic—including devices, talismans, rituals, and incantations—and the points at which technology and magic converge. These technologies are not the props used for stage magic (rabbits in hats, scarves hidden up sleeves) but rather are tools created by humans to help them survive and thrive in a chaotic world. The title "Like Magic" is a bit of a pun: it can be read as an affinity for magic, or as an effect that seems to be, but perhaps isn’t actually, magical.⁠ ⁠ The Foundation supports this exhibition for amplifying the voices of artists concerned for the well-being of their communities, and whose work relies on a curious alchemy to achieve it.⁠ .⁠ 1. Tourmaline, Atlantic is a Sea of Bones, 2017.⁠ ⁠ 2. Simone Bailey, Hometraining (Early Sketch), 2020.⁠ ⁠ 3. Gelare Khoshgozaran, US Customs Demands to Know, ongoing. ⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ #SimoneBailey @Tourmaliiine #Tourmaline #GerlaneKhoshgozaran @massmoca #MASSMoca #LikeMagic #WarholGrantee #AndyWarhol #Warhol #Philanthropy #contemporaryart #mixedmedia #Magic ⁠#tarot #astrology⁠

#WarholWednesday⁠ From Liz Taylor and Jackie O to his own Superstars Candy Darling, Jackie Curtis, and Holly Woodlawn to the subjects of his “Lady and Gentlemen” series to Princess Caroline, Warhol had an enduring interest in queens and drag queens in particular. His interest also lay in the idea of artifice, role-playing and the construction of identity. Inspired by Rrose Sélavy, Duchamp’s female alter-ego famously photographed by Man Ray, Warhol embarked on a collaborative project with photographer Christopher Makos in the early 1980s. ⁠ ⁠ They used eight wigs and two professional make-up artists for two days to capture over 300 images of Warhol with facial make up and dramatically styled wigs, contrasted by his “uniform” of a tie and jeans. This mixture of stylistic elements expressed an ambiguous sexuality, casting an eye at gender confusion and alternative, non-conformist lifestyles that were beginning to emerge in New York in the late 1970s.⁠ ⁠ “He didn't want to look like a beautiful woman, He wanted to show the way it felt to be Beautiful," said Makos. In his numerous self-portraits, Warhol was less interested in revealing himself than in presenting a mask, just as he carefully crafted a superficial persona in life. Nevertheless, in these images, his masculine features are barely disguised behind his wigs and make-up. Makos entitled his photos from the collaborative project "Altered Images".⁠ .⁠ Images 1 - 4. Andy Warhol, Self-portrait in Drag, 1981. Polacolor 2, 4 ¼ x 3 3/8 inches. ©The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. ⁠ ⁠ Image 5. Andy Warhol, Self-portrait in Drag, 1981. Black and white silver gelatin print, 8 x 10 inches. ©The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. ⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ @ChristopherMakos #ChristopherMakos #WarholFoundation #AndyWarhol #Warhol #Drag #Selfportrait @Polaroid #Polaroid #Photography #Blackandwhitephotography #Pride #PrideMonth #lgbtqhistory

Now on view at #WarholGrantee the Leslie Lohman Museum of Art is “I'm a thousand different people—Every one is real”. Titled after a drawing by artist, queer icon, and Warhol superstar Candy Darling, this exhibition brings together a selection of works across various media and representational styles in an effort to compliment the sentiment Darling’s words evoke — the multidimensionality of queer and trans life and artistic practice that insist on defining art and life entirely on one’s own terms. The exhibition embraces a spectral, prismatic approach to rendering LGBTQIA+ existence. Combining both the contemporary and the historical, the works elide the demand for authenticity and easy legibility, instead holding space for plurality, reinvention, and fantasy. ⁠ ⁠ The Foundation supports the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art for its commitment to catalyzing change by modeling a culture of inclusivity, care, and resilience.⁠ .⁠ Tommy Kha, Exchange Place VI, Midtown Memphis, 2019. Pigment print, 27 x 21 5/8 in. © Tommy Kha.⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ @LeslieLohmanMuseum #LeslieLohmanMuseum @TommyKha #TommyKha #WarholFoundation #AndyWarhol #Warhol #Philanthropy #ContemporaryArt #PrideMonth #LGBTQart #Photography #LGBTQIA #Pride #LGBTQHistory⁠

The #WarholFoundation funded exhibition "In Conversation with the Cosmos" is the first comprehensive survey in the United States dedicated to the late Filipino artist David Medalla (1938–2020). The exhibition contextualizes the elusive and experimental practice of an artist whose pioneering work spanned kinetic, performance, and participatory art movements. ⁠ ⁠ The Foundation supports this exhibition for highlighting the artist’s driving curiosity, collaborative spirit, and pioneering point of view - and moving him to a more visible position in contemporary art history.⁠ .⁠ 1. David Medalla, Self Portrait,1984. Mixed media on paper mounted on wood. 57 × 45 in. Photo: MM Yu.⁠ ⁠ 2. Adam Nankervis, David Medalla in conversation with the cosmos, 2017. C-print, 31 7/16 × 23 5/8 in. Courtesy of another vacant space, Berlin.⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ #DavidMedalla #AdamNankervis @Hammer_Museum #HammerMuseum #WarholGrantee #AndyWarhol #Warhol #Philanthropy #Filipino #Artist #Experimental #Soloexhibition #ContemporaryArtHistory #Pride #PrideMonth #LGBTQHistory

The #WarholFoundation funded exhibition “Sonya Clark: We Are Each Other” now on view at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, is the first international survey of the artist's work whose interactive installations use everyday materials to highlight aspects of Black history and culture that are frequently suppressed or invisible. For thirty years Clark has been making art dedicated to the Black experience in America and this exhibition highlights the communal art projects that form the heart of the artist’s creative practice. With this selection including photographs, prints, sculptures, and five large-scale collaborative project, Clark encourages the audience to conform the country’s historical imbalances and racial injustices through material transformation. ⁠ ⁠ Co-organized by the High Museum of Art, the Cranbrook Art Museum in metro Detroit, and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, the Foundation supports this exhibition for recognizing Clark’s dedication to raising public awareness of African American culture and history, helping bring it from the margins of public discourse to the center.⁠ .⁠ Sonya Clark, Madam C. J. Walker, 2008. Combs, 122 × 87 inches.⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ @MADMuseum @sysclark #SonyaClark @HighMuseumofArt @CranbrookArtMuseum #WarholGrantee #AndyWarhol #Warhol #Philanthropy #ContemporaryArt #CommunityCentric #Haircombs #Comb #MadamCJWalker⁠

“I’ll paint anybody. Anybody that asks me.” – Andy Warhol.⁠ .⁠ Andy Warhol, Self-portrait, 1980s. Photographic reproduction from 35mm negative. ©The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. ⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ #WarholFoundation #AndyWarhol #Warhol #Selfportrait #Photography #Blackandwhitephotography #Painting #Artist #1980s #Portrait #Portraiture ⁠