Russell Tovey Instagram – 🎉🎨 New @TalkArt! We meet @KAWS aka Brian Donnelly to discuss his three major institutional exhibitions all opening in 2024. The first show has just opened at @TheWarholMuseum, Pittsburgh and is the first time that KAWS’ work has been aligned with #Warhol. Followed by the @ParrishArtMuseum this summer, and The @DrawingCenter, set to open in Autumn.
In celebration of its 30th anniversary, The Warhol presents KAWS Warhol, the first exhibition to examine the dark themes present in the work of both artists. From skulls to car crashes, both artists deploy their signature bright colors and pop culture references while also presenting the lurid spectacle of death. The dark undercurrents in the work of KAWS and Warhol are magnified and brought into plain sight by presenting the two artists together for the first time.
In July, The Parrish Art Museum will be presenting a major solo exhibition devoted to the artist KAWS, including a wide array of sculptures and paintings. This exhibition marks the first KAWS survey on the East End of Long Island.
In October, The Drawing Center, New York will open ‘The Way I See It: Selections from the KAWS Collection Since’. Since the mid 1990s, the artist KAWS has collected over 3,000 works on paper by a wide variety of artists, ranging from Abstract Expressionist painter Willem de Kooning to graffiti writer Dondi. His collection is particularly rich in drawings by self-taught artists, historical and contemporary, comic artists, and graffiti artists. It contains masterpieces by Adolf Wölfli, Martín Ramírez and Helen Rae, extraordinary sketchbooks pages by legendary graffiti writers like Lee Quiñones, comics by Robert Crumb and Rick Griffin, and a cache of drawings by Chicago Imagist artists including Jim Nutt, and Gladys Nilsson, among many others.
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🎨 Visit @TheWarholMuseum, @DrawingCenter and @ParrishArtMuseum | Posted on 31/May/2024 13:41:11
