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by JACQUELINE SCOTT
Intern Lifestyles Reporter
“I always thought I’d like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I’d like it to say ‘figment.’”
While Andy Warhol may have hoped to be remembered as a ‘figment,’ his contributions to the pop art movement have not gone forgotten.
Famous for his Campbell soup cans and bold, multi-colored art, rembrandts and figments of Warhol are now accessible on exhibit through Feb. 7 at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, TCVA, located on King Street.
 One hundred and two Polaroids and 50 black and white photographs were donated to the Turchin Center by The Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy program. The exhibit is on display through Feb. 7. Photo by Christy Bullins
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To celebrate its
20th anniversary, The Andy Warhol for the Visual Arts established a new
program, The Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy Program.
Appalachian
State University’s TCVA was one of 183 college and university art
museums across the country to receive original Polaroids and gelatin
prints.
Of the
28,543 original Warhol photographs, valued well over $28 million, “each
participant received around 150 original Polaroid photographs and
gelatin silver prints.
The
Turchin Center received 104 polaroids and 50 prints to add to its
Permanent Collection,” Assistant Curator of the Turchin Center for the
Visual Arts A. Brook Bower said.
“Our
goal was to showcase the works given to the center’s Permanent
Collection and to find new and interesting ways to get visitors excited
about learning more about Warhol’s life and work,” Assistant Vice
Chancellor for Arts and Cultural Affairs and Director and Chief Curator
for the TCVA, Hank T. Foreman, said.
Areas of the exhibition focus on a timeline of Warhol’s life, the Silver Factory, his films and the photo booth, Foreman said.
“The
installation plays off the larger-than-life persona that would surpass
art world influence to become a mass media and marketing phenomenon,”
Bower said.
Senior art management major Lorelle C. Rau worked alongside Bower in planning and installing the exhibition.
“I
conducted research and helped write portions of the text on Andy
Warhol's life and artwork,” Rau said. “I gained curatorial experience
assisting Brook in laying out the show and text in the gallery, as well
as helping to design the overall flow of the exhibition.”
Bower, Rau and two other art management majors framed all 154 Warhol photographs.
From
noon to 1 p.m. on Wednesday at the TCVA lecture hall, a presentation
will be conducted on 20th century masters, including the achievements
of Warhol and Robert Motherwell.
In
addition, assistant director of art Gayle M. Weitz will teach “Who’s
Andy Warhol: A Pop Art Workshop,” for children ages 6 through 12.
President
of the Andy Warhol Foundation, Joel Wachs, hopes to keep the legacy of
Warhol alive by “provid[ing] greater access to Warhol’s process and to
enable a wide range of people from communities across the country to
view and study this important yet relatively unknown body of Warhol’s
work.”
“Warhol’s
relevance to the 21st century is evidenced not only by numerous
critical research projects and exhibitions but by the continuous
fascination in the general public about his life and art,” Foreman
said. “As we move further away from the 20th century, Warhol continues
to be an increasingly pivotal artist and is touted by some historians
as possibly the most influential artist of his period.”
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