Silk-Screen Goddesses

A NEW YORK GALLERY BRINGS ANDY WARHOL’S ICONIC PORTRAITS OF WOMEN TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME.

BY INGRID ABRAMOVITCH

THE MALE GAZE IN ART is controversial in the age of #MeToo, but then again, Andy Warhol was never your prototypical male artist. Indeed, “Warhol Women,” a new survey of his portraits at New York’s Lévy Gorvy gallery (through June 15), opens with a series of Christopher Makos photographs of “Lady Warhol”—the artist himself, in drag. “You realize he’s not hamming it up,” says gallery cofounder Brett Gorvy. “His love of women is sincere. He idealized them.” All kinds are represented in this stunning survey of Warhol’s halftone silk-screen portraits from the early 1960s through the 1980s. One wall showcases images of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, including Red Jackie, his iconic 1964 work based on a photograph taken right before her husband’s assassination. Another Warhol obsession, Marilyn Monroe, is represented in…

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ELLE DECOR (Digital) - 1 Issue, June 2019

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