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Dionne Custer
Wexner Center for the Arts

Andy Warhol: Other Voices Other Rooms

For our visual arts experience, we will explore Andy Warhol's current exhibition here at the Wexner Center. Many of you may be familiar with some of Warhol's work by way of his influences on today's popular culture and media. You may have seen the Marilyn Monroe or Cambell's soup can prints. For instance, the image above is a recent example of Warhol imagery in the front window of the clothing store The Gap.

Most of you are familiar with Polaroid instant camera images or photo booth images, two ways of producing interesting and instant images that Warhol used and manipulated as he captured the portraits and personalities of himself, friends, and famous people far and wide for decades. Interview magazine, a publication Warhol created, is also still in print and just recently celebrated 80 years of Andy Warhol's influence on American mainstream culture in its June/July 2008 issue.

Warhol was not only fascinated with popular culture, his work in some ways began to translate and define American popular culture as he rose to his own respective celebrity and artistic fame during his career that spanned from the late 1940's to his death in 1987.

During your tour at the Wexner Center, you will see the only American exhibition encompassing many previously unreleased footage, imagery, and objects from Warhol's work with film and video including: films produced in Warhol's infamous "Factory" in New York City, and a range of episodes from Warhol's cable television network series. Additionally, you will see glimpses of objects from Warhol's time capsules, photographs and biographical information, and finally Warhol's magical "Silver Clouds", a room filled with inflated mylar balloons (shown above).

I have included resources for this experience along the right side of the page. You can click on the links and start exploring.

You will work with writer Kelli Trinoskey, as she helps you explore character development in fiction writing.

As always feel free to share interesting things that you find or think about while learning about Andy Warhol. Click on the comment link below to share with other students.

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Dionne Custer
Wexner Center for the Arts