PAST EXHIBITION

Christopher Makos - Warhol: Vintage Portraits

May 10, 2007—June 29, 2007

Yancey Richardson Gallery is pleased to present Warhol: Vintage Portraits, an exhibition of photographic portraits of Andy Warhol taken by Christopher Makos over a period of two days in 1981 as a collaboration between the two artists. Titled Altered Images, the project resulted in 349 different images featuring Warhol posed against a plain white studio background wearing women's makeup and wigs. The project, inspired by Man Ray’s famous portrait of Marcel Duchamp posing as his alter ego Rrose Sélavy, coincides with explorations of identity, gender and role-playing by other artists such as Robert Mapplethorpe's feminized self-portraits and Cindy Sherman's Film Stills.

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