MK Gallery presents Andy Warhol: Portrait of America, an ARTIST ROOMS Partnership Exhibition with Tate and National Galleries of Scotland.
Almost 25 years since Andy Warhol: Cars was shown in 2001, MK Gallery is exhibiting the seminal pop artist’s work once again in Milton Keynes. This exhibition is a survey of over 130 of Warhol’s most iconic artworks, including two paintings of British art duo Gilbert & George, who were the focus of MK Gallery’s inaugural exhibition in 1999.
The British artistic duo Gilbert & George (b. 1943, b. 1942), like Warhol, explored the interplay of personal and public identity, often blurring the lines between performance and life. They met Warhol when they first performed The Singing Sculpture in New York in 1971. Painted silver, they stood on a table in suits and sang Underneath the Arches. Unlike other portraits of this period, the paint here is applied uniformly and the screenprints are applied evenly, echoing Gilbert & George’s own graphic style. Gilbert recalled that Warhol made them scrambled eggs even if George remembered that it was, in fact, Robert Rauschenberg.
🎨 Andy Warhol: Portrait of America is on view until 29 June 2025.
📍MK Gallery, Milton Keynes
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Image credit: Andy Warhol (1975) Gilbert and George, ARTIST ROOMS Tate and National Galleries of Scotland © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York and DACS, London 2024. Photo © Tate
An ARTIST ROOMS exhibition, a partnership between Tate and National Galleries of Scotland.