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Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Exhibitions

Devan Shimoyama: Cry, Baby
Through March 17, 2019

Devan Shimoyama: Cry, Baby marks the first museum solo exhibition of Devan Shimoyama, Philadelphia-born painter and professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Spanning his burgeoning career, this exhibition includes painting, photography and sculpture, and a series of new works that will be on view for the first time. In figurative painting and self-portraiture, Shimoyama creates vulnerable yet resilient depictions of African American boyhood and masculinity. His work challenges cliché with daring and personal representations of the complexities of race and sexuality. In his recent barbershop paintings, Shimoyama transforms the hyper-masculine social space into queer fantasy where feminine glamour and fashion take over, and tender depictions of boys don floral capes and glitter-encrusted hair.

This exhibition makes a unique connection to The Andy Warhol Museum’s permanent collection and brings to light contemporary insight into one of Warhol’s largest and yet most overlooked painting commissions, the Ladies and Gentlemen series of 1974-75. Visitors will find Shimoyama’s work in dialog with Warhol’s portraits of drag queens on the fourth floor of the museum’s permanent collection. Shimoyama’s confident and daring depictions of sexuality, race and queer performance help reclaim the agency and visibility that Warhol’s models have been denied and bring these paintings out from the shadows.

Devan Shimoyama: Cry, Baby is curated by Jessica Beck, The Milton Fine Curator of Art at The Warhol.

Generous support of Devan Shimoyama: Cry, Baby is provided by the Quentin and Evelyn T. Cunningham Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation, The Fine Foundation, Arts, Equity, & Education Fund, Karen and Jim Johnson, De Buck Gallery, Jim Spencer and Michael Lin, with additional support from Stacy and Samuel Freeman, V. Joy Simmons M.D., Mrs. Ellen and Mr. Jack Kessler, The Plastino Family Charitable Fund, and Mr. Howard C. Eglit.

Youth Art Exhibition
April 5 – April 20, 2019

Immortalizing the images of celebrities and commercial products, alike, Andy Warhol embraced and challenged the traditional ideas of portraiture throughout his career. Commemorating popular culture in the subjects he chose, Warhol created a narrative to the American Dream.

Contemporary artists, such as Yasuamasa Morimura, Firelei Baez, Farhad Moshiri, and Devan Shimoyama,have used portraiture as a way to visualize their lived experience and allow multiple facets of their identity intersect on the canvas. This exhibition, presented by The Warhol’s Youth Arts Council, is a visual exploration of identity and representation. Like Warhol, today’s youth are no stranger to the conscious act of curating the private and public self on daily basis. Pittsburgh area youth were encouraged to challenge the definition of self and identity and submit work that falls into the genre of portraiture in any medium of their choosing. Presented in conjunction with Youth Invasion 2019.

Kim Gordon: Lo-Fi Glamour
May 17 – September 1, 2019

Kim Gordon: Lo-Fi Glamour, the artist’s first North American museum solo-exhibition, features painting, sculpture, a new series of figure drawings, and a commissioned score for Andy Warhol’s 1963–64 silent film Kiss.

Celebrated for her work as a founding member of the experimental post-punk band Sonic Youth, Kim Gordon is a multi-disciplinary artist and thinker who has worked in fashion, publishing, film and music. In the 1980s, it was through art that she found music, coming to Sonic Youth from an early interest in art, aesthetics, and performance. She went to art school at the Otis College of Art and Design. In 1980, just a year after moving to New York, Gordon staged her first exhibition, Design Office, and a year later co-curated an exhibition of musicians for Noise Fest both at the artist led, White Columns. In the early 2000s, she returned to her artistic pursuits with new gusto, developing a series of canvases she refers to as Noise Name paintings, which are inspired by her musical roots. Her sculpture of silver glitter takes inspiration from the lo-fi aesthetic of Warhol’s Silver Factory and her paintings echo the raw, graffiti-aesthetic of noise bands of the 1980s. The exhibition will also feature figure drawings and erotic sculptures, paring intimate works that compliment the elegance and intimacy of Warhol’s Kiss.

Gordon sites Warhol as one of her artistic influences, particularly the lo-fi aesthetic of Warhol’s studio, as well as his involvement with the Velvet Underground, and his multi-disciplinary practice in fashion, painting, music, publishing, and performance. The exhibition and commissioned score, Sound for Andy Warhol’s Kiss honors Gordon’s early interests in Warhol while also spotlighting the development of her artistic voice.

Kim Gordon: Lo-Fi Glamour is curated by Jessica Beck, Milton Fine curator of art and Ben Harrison, curator of performing arts & special projects at The Warhol. A limited-edition vinyl record of Gordon’s commissioned score, performed with fellow musicians Bill Nace, Steve Gunn, and John Truscinski, and a booklet of essays that contextualize her artistic practice accompany the exhibition.

Kim Gordon: Lo-Fi Glamour is generously supported by Alexa and Adam Wolman.

Programs

Dandy Andy: Warhol’s Queer History
Saturday, February 23, 2019
3 p.m.

Join artist educators for Dandy Andy, a monthly tour that focuses on Warhol’s queer history. While his sexuality is frequently suppressed or debated, Warhol was a gay man who had several partners throughout his life. Warhol’s boyfriends, including Edward Wallowitch, John Giorno, and Jed Johnson, were also his colleagues and collaborators, helping to shape and define his career as an artist. This tour traces Warhol’s romantic relationships and queer identity against the backdrop of the historical gay rights movement in the United States. Tours meet on the museum’s seventh floor.
Free with museum admission

Sound Series: Jonathan Wilson
Monday, February 25, 2019
8 p.m.
The Warhol theater

The Warhol welcomes songwriter, guitarist and producer Jonathan Wilson for a special acoustic performance in the Museum’s intimate theater, on a tour supporting his fourth album, Rare Birds on Bella Union. Wilson has recently been touring as a guitarist with Roger Waters, and also produced and recorded Waters’ Is This the Life We Really Want? at his Five Star Studio in L.A., which featured guest appearances by Lana Del Rey, Father John Misty, Lucius, and Laraaji. Wilson is often credited as being at the nexus of the Laurel Canyon music scene revival and has recorded and been a guitarist for wide range of artists such as Dawes, Erykah Badu, Phil Lesh, Elvis Costello, Jackson Browne, and Will Oldham.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $18/$15 members & students; Visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

Sound Series: Princess
Friday, March 1, 2019
8 p.m.
The Warhol theater

The Warhol welcomes the performance duo, Princess, comprised of Alexis Gideon and Michael O’Neill (JD Samson & MEN), who use music as the backbone of a multi-disciplinary practice that often explores issues of queerness and the concept of masculinity. Simultaneously gay, straight, queer, masculine, and feminine, Princess embodies the fluidity and coherence between the seemingly contradictory. The duo’s Out There is a concept video album and live performance. Released song-by-song, each episode stands alone and moves the narrative forward to a conclusion. Out There reclaims the original power of MTV by building on the long legacy of concept albums like Ziggy Stardust and Deltron 3030.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $12/$10 members & students; Visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

Sound Series: Mivos String Quartet
Saturday, March 2, 2019
8 p.m.
The Warhol theater

Co-presented with Music on the Edge series of the University of Pittsburgh Department of Music
The Mivos Quartet is devoted to performing works of contemporary composers and presenting new music to diverse audiences. Since the quartet’s beginnings in 2008 they have performed and closely collaborated with an ever-expanding group of international composers representing multiple aesthetics of contemporary classical composition. They have appeared on prestigious series such as the New York Phil Biennial, the Darmstadt Internationalen Ferienkurse für Neue Musik (Germany), Shanghai New Music Week (Shanghai, China), and Lo Spririto della musica di Venezia (La Fenice Theater, Italy). Mivos is also committed to working with guest artists, exploring multi-media projects involving live video and performing improvised music.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: advance $15/$10 students and seniors; door $20/$15 students and seniors; visit warhol.org or call the University of Pittsburgh Stages Box Office, 412-624-7529

Sound Series: Rafiq Bhatia: Breaking English
Thursday, March 7, 2019
8 p.m.
The Warhol theater

The Warhol welcomes composer, producer and guitarist, Rafiq Bhatia on a tour supporting his latest album Breaking English on Anti Records. Breaking English is an evening-length live performance, featuring Bhatia’s latest work for his electroacoustic trio transformed into an immersive multimedia experience by visual artist Michael Cina and video artist Hal Lovemelt. The electroacoustic trio includes Ian Chang (Son Lux, Joan As Policewoman) on electronic and acoustic drums and Jackson Hill (Xenia Rubinos) on bass and synthesizers. Following up on Bhatia’s two previous Sound Series performances, as guitarist with Son Lux, Breaking English pushes further at the boundaries of sound art and improvisation, while blending elements of both organic and mechanical, intimate and distant.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $20/$15 members & students; Visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

The Artist Up Close: Devan Shimoyama
Thursday, March 14, 2019
7 p.m.
The Warhol theater

Catalogue contributors, Jessica Beck, Emily Colucci, Alex Fialho, and Rickey Laurentiis, talk with Devan Shimoyama about his work and practice. This event serves as a closing dialogue for the exhibition, Devan Shimoyama: Cry, Baby, and offers a chance for the community to respond and meet the artist. Shimoyama and authors will be available to sign copies of the exhibition catalogue, which will be for sale in The Warhol Store.
Free; Registration is suggested; Visit warhol.org

Sound Series: Turning Jewels into Water, plus special guest, Soy Sos
Saturday, March 16, 2019
8 p.m.
The Warhol entrance space

Co-presented with PearlArts Studios
The Warhol welcomes Haitian electronic music composer/percussionist/turntablist Val Jeanty, and percussionist/composer, Ravish Momin with their new project Turning Jewels into Water, on a tour supporting their debut EP Which Way Is Home? on FPE Records. Their collaboration, rooted in improvisation shaped by ritual, evokes the esoteric realms of the creative subconscious. Drawing from the voodoo religion, Val recreates the ancient rhythm and pulse of Haiti through digital beats, while Momin, whose own musical background is rooted Indian, North African and Middle-eastern traditions, has developed an original blend of electro-acoustic beats, drawing together the improvisational traditions in Jazz and Indian music. Together they explore the capabilities of new technologies to create a seamless blend of multiple electronic and acoustic instruments. Pittsburgh-based DJ and producer, Soy Sos (aka Herman Pearl) opens the evening with a high energy set.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $12/$10 members & students; Visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

Sound Series: serpentwithfeet
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
8 p.m.
The Warhol entrance space

The Warhol welcomes vocalist and performance artist, serpentwithfeet (aka Josiah Wise) on a tour supporting his debut full-length album, soil, co-released by Tri Angle Records and Secretly Canadian. With a unique aesthetic that blends elements of gospel music of his youth and more minimal and ambient composition, Wise had this to say about the lyrical nature of the new record: “I remember growing up there was language for how men and women interact…I hate to say it, but I think there is still a lot of shame around two black men dating and loving on each other and I was very aware of that. While working on soil, i was exploring and trying to make sense of my needs and my love language… I’m excited about the way things naturally come out of my body. I am always going to embrace discipline and streamlining. But I’m in a space at the moment where I don’t need or desire the corset. It’s time for expansiveness.”
Doors open at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $18/$15 members & students; Visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

Sound Series: A Night of Deep Listening, featuring Joe McPhee, Claire Chase, and Peter Evans
Saturday, March 23, 2019
8 p.m.
Carnegie Music Hall

Co-presented with Carnegie International, 57th Edition, 2018
Organized in collaboration with Carnegie International, 57th Edition, 2018, this evening program is a musical synthesis of the exhibition-within-the-International-exhibition Dusty Groove II: Space Is a Diamond. Working in collaboration, John Corbett, Jim Dempsey, and artist Josiah McElheny have presented a gallery of artifacts anchored by sculptural portraits of four maverick musicians of the twentieth century: John Cage, Pauline Oliveros, Harry Partch, and Sun Ra, plus an homage to the “cosmic explorations” of the twenty-first century musical visionary, Joe McPhee. The performance brings together Joe McPhee himself, with Claire Chase, and Peter Evans, three giants of contemporary of music, in turn inspired by these four historical figures, and a revival of composer Lucia Dlugoszewski’s “Space is a Diamond”, performed for the first time in over 40 years.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $25/$20 members & students; Visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

Sound Series: Mdou Moctar
Thursday, March 28, 2019
8 p.m.
The Warhol entrance space

The Warhol welcomes Tuareg guitarist, Mdou Moctar, and his band who are originally from a small village in the Azawagh desert of Niger. Similar to past Sound Series Toureg bands such as Tinariwen and Imarhan, Mdou’s music has been an underground success with an international following, focused on blending Western blues and rock guitar sensibility with traditional West African polyrhythms. Mdou also wrote and starred in the first ever Tuareg language film, Rain the Color Blue with a Little Red In It, a Saharan remake of Prince’s Purple Rain, released in 2015.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $15/$12 members & students; Visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

Dandy Andy: Warhol’s Queer History
Saturday, March 30, 2019
3 p.m.

Join artist educators for Dandy Andy, a monthly tour that focuses on Warhol’s queer history. While his sexuality is frequently suppressed or debated, Warhol was a gay man who had several partners throughout his life. Warhol’s boyfriends, including Edward Wallowitch, John Giorno, and Jed Johnson, were also his colleagues and collaborators, helping to shape and define his career as an artist. This tour traces Warhol’s romantic relationships and queer identity against the backdrop of the historical gay rights movement in the United States. Tours meet on the museum’s seventh floor.
Free with museum admission

Sound Series: Instruments of Happiness Guitar Quartet
Saturday, March 30, 2019
8 p.m.
The Warhol theater

Co-presented with Music on the Edge series of the University of Pittsburgh Department of Music
Instruments of Happiness is an electric guitar ensemble created by composer/guitarist Tim Brady. This ambitious project is dedicated to the performance of new music and includes a quartet, a professional orchestra of twenty guitarists and a 100-strong community-focused ensemble. “Electric guitarists Tim Brady, Gary Schwartz, Michel Héroux and Antoine Berthiaume give us tour de force performances, filled with precision, a flair for color, a total world of electric sounds that realize possibilities one might have dreamed about but rarely if ever experienced.” – Grego Appelgate Edwards, Gappelgate Classical-Modern Reviews.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: advance $15/$10 students and seniors; door $20/$15 students and seniors; visit warhol.org or call the University of Pittsburgh Stages Box Office, 412-624-7529

Youth Invasion 2019
Friday, April 5, 2019
5–10 p.m.

The Warhol is excited to present Youth Invasion! This program features teens’ unique take on Andy Warhol’s artwork, with their points of view, ideas, and creative expressions energizing the entire museum. The event highlights youth performers in the museum’s entrance space, theater, and galleries, as well as presents an exhibition of youth artwork from April 5-20, 2019.
Free with museum admission

Sensory Friendly Silent Disco
Saturday, April 6, 2019
6–10 p.m.

Co-presented with The Pittsburgh Center for Autistic Self-Advocacy and Autism Connection of Pennsylvania
The Warhol is proud to present a sensory-friendly social gathering for Autism Awareness/Acceptance Month. Join us for a silent disco experience at the museum designed specifically for individuals with autism spectrum disorders and those with sensory sensitivities. DJ Naeem will spin a live set of dance classics and will accept musical requests. Rather than playing loud music through speakers, wireless headphones will allow attendees to opt in or out of the soundtrack and control their own volume levels. The Warhol theater will be transformed into an enclosed sensory room for the evening and quiet areas will be provided. Guests are encouraged to wear comfortable, festive attire and to take portraits in the museum’s photo booth and do artmaking in the studio. Light refreshments will be served and a cash bar will be available. This event is open to teens and their families from 6-8 p.m. and is 21+ after 8 p.m.
Tickets: $12/$8 members, seniors & students/$5 access/EBT card-holder; Visit warhol.org

Screening of Making Montgomery Clift with Directors Robert A. Clift and Hillary Demmon
Friday, April 19, 2019
7 p.m.
The Warhol theater

The Warhol presents the Pittsburgh premiere of the documentary, Making Montgomery Clift (2018), about the accomplished and influential Hollywood actor. Known for bucking traditions on and off screen, countless biographies have reduced Clift to labels like “tragically self-destructive” and “tormented” because of his queer sexuality. Now, directors Robert Clift—Montgomery’s nephew—and Hillary Demmon rigorously re-examine these flawed narratives through the eyes of those who knew him. Drawing on interviews with family and loved ones, as well as a rich collection of unreleased archival materials from both Montgomery and his brother, Brooks Clift, this fresh portrait of the actor’s passions, contributions, and commitment to living and working in his own way gives one of Hollywood’s underappreciated legends his due. Following the screening, filmmakers Clift and Demmon will participate in a Q&A.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Tickets: $10 (includes museum admission); Visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

Dandy Andy: Warhol’s Queer History
Saturday, April 27, 2019
3 p.m.

Join artist educators for Dandy Andy, a monthly tour that focuses on Warhol’s queer history. While his sexuality is frequently suppressed or debated, Warhol was a gay man who had several partners throughout his life. Warhol’s boyfriends, including Edward Wallowitch, John Giorno, and Jed Johnson, were also his colleagues and collaborators, helping to shape and define his career as an artist. This tour traces Warhol’s romantic relationships and queer identity against the backdrop of the historical gay rights movement in the United States. Tours meet on the museum’s seventh floor.
Free with museum admission

Sound Series: Orville Peck
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
8 p.m.
The Warhol theater

The Warhol welcomes the enigmatic, masked country singer Orville Peck, who will release his debut album on Sub Pop Records in early 2019. Combining the lulling ambiance of shoegaze with the iconic melodies and vocal prowess of classic American country music, outlaw cowboy, Orville Peck croons about love and loss from the badlands of North America. “Big Sky,” his first single, is a described as a “campfire lullaby of Orville’s past lovers”. He sings about his relationships with an aloof biker, an abusive boxer and an overly protective jailor in the Florida Keys, and the inevitable demise of each one, as Orville leaves them for the wide open big sky.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $15/$12 members & students; Visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

Sound Series: Valerie June with special guest Parker Gispert
Thursday, May 2, 2019
8 p.m.
Carnegie Lecture Hall (Oakland)

Co-presented with WYEP
The Warhol welcomes back Valerie June for an intimate solo performance at the Carnegie Lecture Hall. Deftly blending elements of folk, soul, blues, and Appalachian traditional sensibilities into a strikingly unique and timeless sound, Valerie June stands in a long and storied line of unique performers in Memphis, the city where she began to hone her craft. Her unique voice and vocal delivery have drawn comparisons to icons as varied as Billie Holiday, Dolly Parton, and the Carter Family. Parker Gispert opens the evening.
Doors open at 7 p.m.
Tickets: $25/$20 members & students; Visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

Sound Series: Jessica Pratt
Saturday, May 11, 2019
8 p.m.
The Warhol theater

The Warhol welcomes the mesmerizing songwriter and vocalist, Jessica Pratt, on a tour supporting her second album Quiet Signs on the Mexican Summer label. Blending elements of lush chamber pop ala The Left Banke and more minimal and breezy guitar arrangements reminiscent of Caetano Veloso on the first single, “This Time Around,” Pratt’s haunting vocals hover in the arrangements throughout the record. The album was written in Los Angeles and recorded at Gary’s Electric in Brooklyn, New York over 2017 and 2018. It features Al Carlson, who co-produced the album, on flute, organ and piano, and Matt McDermott on piano and string synthesizer.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $15/$12 members & students; Visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

Half-Pint Prints
Wednesday, May 15, 2019
10 a.m.–12 p.m.
The Factory

Families work with The Warhol’s artist educators to create silkscreen prints during this drop-in silkscreen printing activity for children ages 1 to 4 years old.
Free with museum admission; Registration is required; Visit warhol.org

Dandy Andy: Warhol’s Queer History
Saturday, May 25, 2019
3 p.m.

Join artist educators for Dandy Andy, a monthly tour that focuses on Warhol’s queer history. While his sexuality is frequently suppressed or debated, Warhol was a gay man who had several partners throughout his life. Warhol’s boyfriends, including Edward Wallowitch, John Giorno, and Jed Johnson, were also his colleagues and collaborators, helping to shape and define his career as an artist. This tour traces Warhol’s romantic relationships and queer identity against the backdrop of the historical gay rights movement in the United States. Tours meet on the museum’s seventh floor.
Free with museum admission

LGBTQ+ Youth Prom 2019
Saturday, June 1, 2019
6–10 p.m.
The Warhol entrance space

Join The Warhol for the sixth annual LGBTQ+ Youth Prom, the largest LGBTQ+ Youth Prom in Southwestern Pennsylvania. This inclusive celebration ensures that every young person can make their prom night a treasured memory. Entry to Prom includes a sit-down dinner, dancing, silkscreen printing, and other activities. Prom is open to youth ages 13-20 years old.
Free; Registration is required. Visit warhol.org
The Warhol LGBTQ+ Youth Prom is generously supported by FedEx Ground and The Keith Haring Foundation.

The Warhol receives state arts funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency; and The Heinz Endowments. Further support is provided by the Allegheny Regional Asset District.

The Andy Warhol Museum

Located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the place of Andy Warhol’s birth, The Andy Warhol Museum holds the largest collection of Warhol’s artworks and archival materials and is one of the most comprehensive single-artist museums in the world. The Warhol is one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh.

Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh

Established in 1895 by Andrew Carnegie, Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh is a collection of four distinctive museums: Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Carnegie Science Center, and The Andy Warhol Museum. The museums reach more than 1.4 million people a year through exhibitions, educational programs, outreach activities, and special events.

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