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Andy in Nature

Andy Warhol at Philip Johnson’s Glass House, 1981.

Sept 23 – Oct 23, 2022
214 Broad St. Milford, PA 18337

The “king of Pop art” was one of Christopher Makos’s favorite subjects. “Andy just wanted to be pretty. He wanted to be one of the cool kids,” Makos told AIR MAIL. “He wanted to fit in, and he never considered himself attractive or handsome, or pretty, so in the case of the modeling, he was really great … you could see his naïveness in front of the camera.” Occasionally, Makos would shoot Warhol outside his New York City beat. Indeed, Warhol’s relationship with nature, largely unexplored, is at the heart of this new exhibition. Makos’s images of Warhol in the wilderness will be placed alongside Paul Solberg’s well-known flower works. Fittingly, the show takes place at Forest Hall, the 19th-century bluestone building in Milford, Pennsylvania, which is known as the birthplace of the American Conservation Movement. —Clara Molot

Photo courtesy of Christopher Makos