Pop Art visionary Marisol was all but forgotten. Now, a new exhibition places her on equal footing with her pal Andy Warhol:
Pop art sculptor Marisol Escobar, known as Marisol, in her studio, 1963. Photograph by Ben Martin/Getty Images.
Her piquant wooden figures with their endearingly boxy forms delighted the art world. The characters Marisol portrayed were often archetypal, women with children and families, but recognizable figures like President Kennedy, John Wayne, and the art dealer Sidney Janis also made appearances. Her work was included in theShe was commissioned to create three covers forhe artist Rolando Peńa declared Marisol, in her heyday, the “undisputed queen of Pop art.”. Detail.
” a playful and daring new exhibition that pairs the two artists’ works as parallels and counterpoints.was curated by Andy Warhol Museum curator Jessica Beck and organized by Maritza Lacayo of PAMM1960 to 1968, the exhibition brings together a remarkable set of Marisol’s works from major global collections, alongside films and archival materials from the Warhol Museum.
Warhol and Marisol met sometime in the early 1960s, and quickly became central to each other’s artistic imaginings. In 1962, Certain artistic subject matter overlaps between the two as well—both make references to the Kennedys and Coca Cola.
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