Kim Gordon: Lo-Fi Glamour Public Programs

For immediate release

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Kim Gordon: Lo-Fi Glamour, will mark the first solo, North American museum exhibition for Kim Gordon. A veteran of the avant-garde music scene and the co-founder of Sonic Youth, Gordon is hailed as a music icon. Her work as a visual artist, which has run parallel to her music career, has yet to be fully explored. This exhibition features painting, sculpture, a new series of figure drawings and a commissioned score for Andy Warhol’s 1963–64 silent film Kiss.

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.

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

Exhibition-Related Programs

The exhibition programming consists of a public exhibition opening that includes the Sound for Andy Warhol’s Kiss world premiere/album release, a talk with Kim Gordon and bestselling author Rachel Kushner, and a film screening of Raymond Pettibon’s 1989 film, Sir Drone, selected by Kim Gordon.

Kim Gordon: Lo-Fi Glamour Opening and Sound for Andy Warhol’s Kiss World Premiere/Album Release
Thursday, May 16, 2019
7–9:30 p.m.

Join The Warhol as we celebrate the opening of the Kim Gordon: Lo-Fi Glamour exhibition and present the world premiere and album release for Sound for Andy Warhol’s Kiss, a live performance/film commission. Accompanied by collaborators Bill Nace, Steve Gunn and John Truscinski, Kim Gordon will premiere a partially improvised continual soundtrack for Warhol’s hour-long film Kiss, 1963-64, that captures close-ups of fourteen couples kissing. The performance paired with the Kim Gordon: Lo-Fi Glamour exhibition of paintings, sculpture and drawings, provides a platform to engage with both the visual and sonic work of an artist who cites Warhol as a key influence, and whose own work with Sonic Youth has been highly influential to younger generations.

Sound for Andy Warhol’s Kiss will be performed at 7:30 p.m.

Kim Gordon: Lo-Fi Glamour is generously supported by Alexa and Adam Wolman.
Free; Registration is required. Visit warhol.org

The Artist Up Close: Kim Gordon with Rachel Kushner
Friday, May 17, 2019
7 p.m.
The Warhol Theater

Kim Gordon discusses her work, career and practice with bestselling author, friend and collaborator, Rachel Kushner. This event serves as an opening dialogue for the exhibition, Kim Gordon: Lo-Fi Glamour.

Kim Gordon studied at the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles in the late 1970s. Her first solo exhibition, Design Office, took place at New York’s White Columns in 1981. For the past thirty years, Gordon has worked consistently across disciplines and across distinct cultural fields: art, design, writing, fashion (X-Girl), music (Sonic Youth, Free Kitten, Body/Head) and film/video (both as actress and director).

Rachel Kushner is the bestselling author of The Flamethrowers, a finalist for the National Book Award and The New York Times Top Ten Books of 2013; Telex from Cuba, a finalist for the National Book Award; and The Mars Room. Kushner’s fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s and The Paris Review. She lives in Los Angeles.

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Kim Gordon: Lo-Fi Glamour.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Free; Registration is required. Visit warhol.org

Screening of Sir Drone
Friday, June 14, 2019
7 p.m.
The Warhol theater

Join The Warhol for a special screening of Raymond Pettibon’s 1989 film, Sir Drone, selected by Kim Gordon. Described by Gordon as “epic”, Sir Drone follows teenagers from the industrial part of Los Angeles as they try to form a punk band in Hollywood. The film features artist Mike Kelley, bassist Matt Watt, and even a character named “Goo”. Shot in two days on home-video equipment with dialogue read off cue cards, Sir Drone is part of a series of feature-length, low-tech video narratives that Pettibon made in the late 1980s focused on West Coast American radical subjects of the 1960s and 1970s. The screening will feature a personal video introduction from Kim Gordon.
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Kim Gordon: Lo-Fi Glamour.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Free; Registration is required; Visit warhol.org

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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