Upcoming Exhibitions
Front Room: Guyton\Walker
September 22, 2010 - January 16, 2011
Free exhibition
In conjunction with the BMA’s presentation of Andy Warhol: The Last Decade, the New York-based collaborative Guyton\Walker is presenting a sprawling installation with energetic and colorful components that demonstrate how Warhol’s artistic legacy impacts a new generation of artists. Artists Wade Guyton (b. 1972) and Kelley Walker (b. 1969) are known for producing lively visual environments from digitally manipulated screen-printed images and sculptural elements such as paint cans, drywall, and tables. Their installation at the BMA will extend into various spaces in the West Wing for Contemporary Art, combining image and pattern, and aspects of fine art and graphic design.
Andy Warhol: The Last Decade
October 17, 2010 – January 9, 2011
The first U.S. museum exhibition to explore the late works of American artist Andy Warhol (1928-1987) brings together more than 50 works that reveal the artist’s energetic return to painting and renewed spirit of experimentation during the last decade of his life. This period shows the celebrity Pop icon creating more paintings and on a vastly larger scale than at any other moment of his 40-year career. Highlights drawn from national and international public and private collections include psychologically revealing self-portraits, Rorschach and camouflage paintings, and three variations on Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper that stretch 25 to 35 feet in width, immersing the viewer in dramatic fields of color.
This nationally traveling exhibition also shows Warhol incorporating and pushing beyond his earlier screen-printed images of soup cans and celebrity icons and reengaging in the physical act of art making. A selection of collaborations with younger artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat mix graffiti and street imagery with Warhol's own Pop vocabulary.
