Deborah Kass, Feminist Warhol Appropriator, Getting Major Retrospective at Warhol Museum

Deborah Kass, “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,” 1994, courtesy of the artist. (click photo for larger image)Pop Art was an art movement that had its origins in England in the 1950s, and made its way to the United States during the 1960s. Pop artists focused their attention on familiar images of popular culture, such as billboards, comic strips, magazine, ads, and supermarket products. One of the leading exponents was Andy Warhol.

“For eight years, from 1992 to 2000, Deborah Kass pursued “The Warhol Project,” a series of feminist appropriations of the Pop artist’s iconic self-portraits and images of celebrities like Elvis and Marilyn Monroe, in which she was often her own subject, while some pieces featured Barbara Streisand, Cindy Sherman, Linda Nochlin and others. It seems fitting, then, that Kass should be having a major retrospective at Pittsburgh’s Andy Warhol Museum in the fall.”

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