“Few people know and understand how wildly popular Marisol’s work was in the early 1960’s and how central she was to this explosive period in American art. This exhibition seeks to rewrite that history by recovering the artistic vision and singular voice of a woman whose legacy has been overlooked,” said Jessica Beck, Milton Fine curator of art. Over time, her work became marginalized, existing merely as a footnote to the movement that she inspired and shaped. “Although Marisol and Warhol overlapped for eight years and shared many parallel themes in their work, Warhol’s name is now synonymous with Pop, while Marisol’s was nearly eradicated from the American Pop history books. These never-before-realized juxtapositions of early works demonstrate Marisol’s clear influence on Warhol’s early career and reveal the sincerity of their artistic friendship. Integrated throughout the exhibition are Warhol’s silent films, produced in 1963–1964, that he made of Marisol and which capture intimate and magnetic sides of her otherwise reserved persona. The exhibition highlights shared themes in the artists’ works: iconic Pop subjects of Coca-Cola and the Kennedy family Warhol’s covertly queer early paintings with Marisol’s investigation of the female experience the artists’ roles as influencers in the New York gallery scene and expansive ideas of installation. By situating her work in dialogue with Warhol’s, this exhibition seeks to reclaim the importance of her practice reframe the strength, originality, and daring nature of her work and reconsider her as one of the leading figures of the Pop era. Over time, however, she was written out of the white male-dominated Pop narrative. The exhibition features key loans of Marisol’s work from major global collections, along with iconic works and rarely seen films and archival materials from The Warhol’s collection.īorn in Paris to Venezuelan parents, Marisol (María Sol Escobar) held a central position in the New York art scene and American Pop movement. Marisol and Warhol Take New York explores the artists’ parallel rises to success, the formation of their artistic personas, their savvy navigation of gallery relationships and the blossoming of their early artistic practices from 1960 to 1968. This exhibition will chart the emergence of Marisol (1930–2016) and Andy Warhol (1928–1987) in New York during the dawn of Pop art in the early 1960s. The Andy Warhol Museum announces Marisol and Warhol Take New York, on view Octo– February 14, 2022.
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