Warhol Black and White AD Series

From the Catalog:

Excerpts from Vincent Fremont’s essay Andy Vision;

Andy was able to reduce the ever growing glut of images and words in our culture with insightful editing resulting in simple but powerful images. It is the subject matter he chose for paintings and drawings that more often than not underscores what a true visionary Andy Warhol was and remains.

A number of the black and white paintings were first exhibited at the Gagosian Gallery on Woodster Street in 1992, five years after Andy’s death. The 1985 paintings reflect life in America both from the past as well as the present.

Today one realizes how these paintings were also a view to the future that is now our present. Andy’s paintings “Are You Different? Energy-Power-Stress! Repent and Sin No More! follouw us in the twenty-first century with the same timeless urgency as when they were painted. When Andy Warhol created this series no one realized just how prophetic the images would prove to be. This group of paintings continues to bluntly reflect the world we live in today.