«IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE»

MADRID— While the idea of the painfully self-conscious Pop artist and inveterate voyeur Andy Warhol cavorting on stage clad in head-to-toe spandex seems absurd, the artist did in fact belong to Carnegie Tech's modern dance club when he was a student there. And, as the inaugural exhibition at Ivorypress Art + Books' new Madrid space shows, Warhol certainly did not leave his appreciation of dance behind in Pittsburgh. On view in the small survey is a 1950s series of appreciative drawings that the artist made of the dancers, choreographers, and dance critics gamboling around New York at the time. Running through November 11, "Warhol & Dance, New York in the 50s" features the men and women who defined the way we understand dance today as reduced to a few simple, flowing lines on stark white backgrounds — many in silhouettes, presented as if living, hollow-eyed dramatic masks.

-Art Info
Oct 29 2010