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Gahlberg Gallery College of DuPage 425 Fawell Blvd. WAR HO L Glen Ellyn, IL 60137-6599 www.cod.edu/gallery (630) 942-2321 PHOT OGRAPHS Warhol’s Fascination

In the mid-’70s, Andy Warhol (1928-1987) would always be seen with a camera in hand. The pioneer of pop art used the camera as his visual diary, his recorder of life. Almost everything fascinated Warhol – from everyday things like shoes, bathrooms and consumer products to more glamorous club scenes, black-tie events and celebrity culture.

This exhibition contains never before exhibited photographs taken by Andy Warhol between 1971 and 1986. It includes a selection from the “Photographers feel guilty 106 Polaroids and 51 black and white photographs donated to the College by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Photographic Legacy that all they do for a living Program in 2008, marking the foundation’s 20th anniversary, and three is press a button.” large screen prints on loan from The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. The 1970s and ’80s found Warhol involved in many profitable ventures: Interview magazine, three cable TV series, fashion promo videos, music videos and a1985 guest appearance on The Love Boat . Warhol’s studio, The Factory, was the famous hangout for artists, musicians, actors and models, and was very active producing films, portrait commissions and an assembly line of silk screens. His status as a media icon skyrocketed during this period.

Warhol began taking Polaroids as a means to quickly capture imagery for his portrait commissions. He would take multiple images of his subject from different angles. They were not meant as artworks in themselves but rather as a reference in creating large paintings and screen prints. Warhol’s Polaroid portraits were often of models curiously caked with “My idea of a good picture thick, light-colored make-up. The make-up flattened the features, creating is one that’s in focus and of contrast and making it easier to translate the image into separate color screens for print. a famous person.” Warhol was infatuated with fame and through his Polaroid portraits he produced screen prints of many celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe, Liz Taylor and Princess Caroline of Monaco. Several “star” athletes also sat for Warhol’s camera. In 1977, he was commissioned to make portraits of Kareem Abdul- Jabbar, Muhammad Ali, , Rod Gilbert, Dorothy Hamil, Jack Nicklaus, Willie Shoemaker, Pele’, Tom Seaver, O.J. Simpson and Pete Rose.

1 Warhol produced a series of mythic figures that included Mickey Mouse, Superman, Dracula, Uncle Sam, Santa Claus and a few others. His Santa Claus Polaroid was made into a silk screen with diamond dust.

Warhol also produced less iconic images like Fiesta Pig , 1979, named accordingly because the pig is eating what appears to be Cheerios on Fiestaware plates. The pet pig named “Baby Jane” was a gift to Warhol from “Baby” Jane Holzer, an actress, model and Warhol superstar in the ’70s. Warhol took numerous Polaroids of the pig and then converted these to an image showing a pig with red, blue, yellow and green plates and glasses. 1

Warhol’s black and white photographs served as an archive for his social activities, travels and daily curiosities. He captured everything from tabletops, bathrooms, landscapes, fashion shows and dinner parties. Many of these black-and-whites reveal the company he shared time with “A picture means I know – artists Keith Haring, Leroy Neiman, musician Holly Johnson, and the famous and fashionable Stephen Sprouse, Calvin Klein and Bianca where I was every minute. Jagger, among others. Landscape, Skyline, Bathroom and Tabletop are That’s why I take pictures. visually compelling in their composition and provide us a glimpse of Warhol’s fascination with life through his camera lens. It’s a visual diary.”

Barbara Wiesen Left: Willie Shoemaker , 197 7, Polacolor Type 108 Director and Curator William Lee Shoemaker (Aug. 19, 1931 – Oct. 12, 2003), a famous Gahlberg Gallery American jockey, weighed 2.5 pounds at birth and was not expected to survive the night. He was placed in an oven within a box to stay warm and survived. Shoemaker grew to be only 4 foot 11 and weighed less than 100 pounds. His small stature proved to be an advantage, as he became one of the greatest thoroughbred horse racers of his day. 1Described in Joyce Hill Stoner’s catalog essay for the traveling exhibition, FACTORY WORK: Warhol, Wyeth, Basquiat at Brandywine River Museum, PA. 2006. Stoner was the guest curator. The show traveled to McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX, Right: Rod Gilbert , 197 7, Polacolor Type 108 and Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME. Rod Gilbert (b. Rodrigue Gabriel Gilbert, July 1, 1941 ) is a retired Canadian professional forward who played for the in the . He was inducted into the in 1982 and was the first player in New York Rangers history to have his number retired.

2 3 “The best thing about a picture is that it never changes even when the people in it do.”

Giancarla Berti, 6 /19 79, Polacolor Type 108 Giancarla Berti and her husband Luciano Berti are distinguished patrons of the arts.

Francesco Clemente , 19 81 , Polacolor 2 Francesco Clemente (b. March 23, 1952) is an Italian artist whose paintings reveal a fantastical expressionistic style. In the ’80s, he created paintings with Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol. Clemente spends his time between New York City, Italy and India, often collaborating with other artists.

4 5 “I take my camera everywhere. Having a few rolls of film to develop gives me a good reason to get up in the morning.”

Henry Gillespie, 2 /1985 , Polacolor ER Henry Gillespie is an Australian lawyer and arts advocate. He met Warhol in 1979 and later became the Australian editor for Warhol's Interview magazine.

Caroline, Princess of Monaco , 1983 , Polacolor ER Princess Caroline is the oldest child of the late Prince Rainer lll of Monaco and his wife, the former American film actress Grace Kelly. When Princess Grace died in a 1982 Monaco car crash, Caroline blossomed into the principality’s new first lady. At the request of her father, Prince Rainier, she took on a number of high-profile roles, including those she holds with the Princess Grace Foundation and the Red Cross. 6 7 Top left: Ryan O’Neal, 12/19 71, Polacolor Type 108 Ryan O’Neal (b. Charles Patrick Ryan O’Neal, April 20, 19 41 ) is an American actor best known for his role in Love Story , for which he received a Golden Globe nomination and an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. He is also known for his long-term relationship with the late Farrah Fawcett and starring in Paper Moon alongside his real-life daughter Tatum O’Neal.

Top right: R.C. Gorman, 1979 , Polacolor Type 108 Rudolph Carl Gorman (July 26, 19 31 – Nov. 3, 2005) was a well-known Native American artist from the Navajo Nation. The New York Times referred to Gorman as “the Picasso of American Indian art,” alluding to his use of vibrant colors and free-flowing forms.

Bottom left: Marilyn Karp, 8 /1974 , Polacolor Type 108 Marilyn Karp, artist and wife of art dealer Ivan Karp, a longtime friend of Andy Warhol, critic for the Village Voice and founder of the O.K. Harris Gallery in SoHo.

Bottom right: Stephen Sprouse, 1984 , Polacolor ER Stephen Sprouse (Sept. 12, 1953 – March 4, 2004) was an artist and fashion designer best known for pioneering a popular clothing style in the 1980s that mixed a pop art Calvin Klein and Bianca Jagger , 1982 , black and white print aesthetic with an edgy punk flair. Calvin Klein (b. Nov. 19, 1942 in New York) is one of America’s top fashion designers. He first made a name for himself by designing clean, uncomplicated sportswear. He kept his name popular with the public by creating sometimes shocking and always news-making advertising campaigns.

Bianca Jagger (b. Bianca Pérez-Mora Macias, in Nicaragua, May 2, 1945) is a human rights advocate for a variety of social issues, former actress and fashion model. In the 1970s and early 1980s, Jagger had a reputation as a partygoer and fashion icon with frequent visits to New York City’s nightclub Studio 54. She is also well known as the ex-wife of Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones.

8 9 LeRoy Neiman and Unidentified Women , undated , black and white print LeRoy Neiman (b. June 8, 19 21) is a commercially successful American artist known for his flamboyant colored paintings and screen prints of athletes and sporting events.

Opposite page: Tabletop , December 1980 , black and white print

11 Holly Johnson , undated , black and white print Holly Johnson (b. William “Holly” Johnson, Feb. 9, 1960) is an English musician, artist and writer best known as the lead singer of Frankie Goes to Hollywood, one of the biggest British dance acts of the mid-1980s.

Opposite page: Unidentified Model , undated , black and white print

“Sometimes the little times you don’t think are anything while they’re happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.”

13 Stephen Sprouse , c. 1985 , black and white print Stephen Sprouse (Sept. 12, 1953 – March 4, 2004) was an artist and fashion designer best known for pioneering a popular clothing style in the 1980s that mixed a pop art aesthetic with an edgy punk flair.

Opposite page: Keith Haring ,1984 , black and white print Keith Haring (May 4, 1958 – Feb. 16, 1990) joined New York’s art community in the 1980s and devoted his career to public art that often contained social messages. His first drawings in white chalk in New York’s subway system marked the beginning of his successful but short career. Haring obtained international recognition and popularized graffiti as an art form.

14 Gahlberg Gallery Warhol Photographs Thursday, June 2 to Saturday, Aug. 6, 2011

The works in this publication are a gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc. The three Warhol screen prints on exhibit, Princess Caroline of Monaco, Santa Claus and Fiesta Pig , are graciously on loan from The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA. All quotes throughout this publication are by Andy Warhol. “I like boring things.”

This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Cover: Fiesta Pig, 197 9, Polacolor Type 108

Inside front cover: Santa Claus ,1981, Polacolor 2

Inside back cover: Landscape , undated , black and white print

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