Glenn Ligon on Andy Warhol's Shadows

Dia:Chelsea, December 3, 2007

This audio of Glenn Ligon on Andy Warhol's Shadows was recorded at Dia:Chelsea on December 10, 2007 as part of Dia's Artists on Artists Lecture Series.

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Twenty-five canvases hang edge to edge and low to the floor along a wall and in the corner of a gallery. Each painting features an identical abstract mark painted in black, gray, red, green, yellow, pink, purple, or blue. — Glenn Ligon on Andy Warhol's Shadows
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The corner of a gallery, with both walls lined with many iterations of the same vertically oriented print of an abstracted and vague shadow form that descends on the left and moves across the bottom edge. Each print is in black and one other color, either red, coral, peach, white, grey, shades of green, or deep purple. — Andy Warhol, Shadows (on tour)
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Identical multicolored paintings line the entirety of a gallery room in large open space with three walls depicted. — Andy Warhol, Shadows
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The corner of a gallery with a gray pillar in the center, with both walls lined with many iterations of the same vertically oriented print of an abstracted and vague shadow form that descends on the left and moves across the bottom edge. Each print is in black and one other color, either oragne, dark green, peach, light grey, or white, except for one on the left with a light grey background and a slightly darker grey shadow. — Andy Warhol, Shadows
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A black line rendering with cartoonish shadows of the Last Supper, with Jesus is the center of a long table, flanked by six animated men on either side, with a meal on the table. — Andy Warhol: The Last Supper Portraits
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A repeating image of a yellow cow head on a blue background. — Dia's Andy: Through the Lens of Patronage
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Photograph of a Brillo box and the lower part of a chair on a multicolored carpet. — Louise Lawler and Andy Warhol: In and Out of Place
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