POP! Andy Warhol and Artists from the Collection of the Housatonic Museum of Art

The Housatonic
Museum of Art presents Pop! Andy Warhol
and Artists from the Collection of the Housatonic Museum of Art on view in
the Burt Chernow Galleries, 900 Lafayette Blvd., Bridgeport, Connecticut, from
March 6-28, 2014 (closed Mar. 22nd
and 23rd.)  
Visit the website, www.HousatonicMuseum.org
for gallery hours.

This
exhibition features works on paper by Andy Warhol and notable Pop Art era
artists, including: Arman, Christo, Chryssa, Roy De Forest, Jim Dine, Sherman
Drexler, Philip Guston, Alex Katz, Claes Oldenburg, Michelangelo Pistoletto,
Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Ed Ruscha, John Wesley, and Tom
Wesselmann.

Andy
Warhol is widely regarded as an innovative contemporary artist and principal figure of the Pop Art movement with the incorporation of popular culture
imagery and utilization of mass production techniques in his artwork. This
exhibition will bring together iconic works on paper from throughout his
career: Campbell’s soup cans and portraits of American royalty (Elizabeth
Taylor and Jackie Kennedy) from the 1960s, repeating flowers from the 1970s,
and colorful, expressionistic iconographic prints from the 1980s.

The
Housatonic Museum of Art’s collection contains over 5000 works of art spanning
ancient through modern times and is one of the largest permanent collections of
any two-year college in the Northeast.  Exhibition
and programs are funded in part by the Werth Family Foundation, Institute of
Museum and Library Services, Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism,
Fairfield County Community Foundation, Target, Housatonic Community College
Foundation, and other individual donors. If you are
interested in supporting HMA exhibitions and programs by donating to the
Housatonic Community College Foundation, contact the Museum at
www.HousatonicMuseum.org.

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