Timothy Taylor Gallery

To date, Timothy Taylor Gallery has presented two exhibitions of works by one of the most celebrated artists of the 20th Century, Andy Warhol. Both exhibitions were curated by Steven Bluttal, an independent curator, archivist and photography editor based in New York. Bluttal is a former curator of the Estate of Andy Warhol, and the photo editor of Andy Warhol “GIANT” Size, published by Phaidon.

Our 2007 exhibition of rare early works on paper, Andy Warhol: 1948-1960, explored the symbiotic relationship between Warhol’s commercial portfolio and his own private expression. Drawing together a selection of work that predates Warhol’s graduation from The Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh and spanning the artist’s first decade in New York City, Warhol’s private drawings, including still-life, intimate portraiture, and documentation of his travels are contextualised by their exhibition alongside studies for his commercial work of the same period; for clients including Harper’s Bazaar, Doubleday (now Random House), Bourgois, Moss Rose and I. Miller. Extracts from his privately printed, hand-coloured books, Wild Raspberries and 25 Cats Name Sam, were also exhibited. The exhibition also charted the development of Warhol’s use of media, from his first signature aesthetic – the ‘blotted-line technique’ – to his use of gold leaf, spray-paint, intricate collage, ballpoint pen, Aniline dye and tempera.

In 2008 the gallery presented Andy Warhol: Portraits and Landscapes, an exhibition of over 200 unique 10×8” vintage silver-gelatin photographic prints. Shot during the last ten years of his life, between 1976 and 1987, they give a remarkable insight into Warhol’s photographic practice and his interest in the banal, portraying a collection of commonplace objects including dog-food, toilets, chairs, sidewalks, garbage, storefronts, shirts, teacups, mannequins, drunks, pigeons, sausages, toys, place settings and aeroplanes. As Warhol casts his eye over hotel mini bars, liquor bottles, empty chairs and emergency exits, he created non-figurative portraits and urban landscapes.

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