Revolver Gallery
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Revolver Gallery is based in Los Angeles, California, and focuses on Andy Warhol's pop art[1] career. Revolver Gallery hosted Canada's largest exhibition of Andy Warhol's original works [2], and was the first gallery to put Warhol's 1974 Rolls Royce Silver Shadow on display for the public.[3]
The gallery was originally founded in 2012 by entrepreneur Ron Rivlin[4]. With over 200 original works, it is home to the largest "gallery-owned" collection of Andy Warhol worldwide. [5]
Artists
Revolver Gallery deals almost exclusively in the life and works of Andy Warhol.
However, their newest Bergamot Station location showed a collaboration with Keith Haring, a homage by Deborah Kass, and a reproduction by Warhol's printmaker, Rupert Jasen Smith.
Exhibition Locations
Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
Beverly Hills, California
Toronto, Canada
Revolver Gallery ran an exhibition titled Andy Warhol Revisited: A Mirror For Today in the Yorkville neighborhood of Toronto, Canada. The exhibition was on display from July 1st to December 31st, 2015. [6] By collaborating with museums, the Andy Warhol Foundation, Christie's, and private collectors, Revolver Gallery exhibited over 120 original works of Andy Warhol. This exhibition stands as the largest grouping of Warhol's work ever shown in Canada. [2]
Vancouver, Canada
Revolver Gallery, in collaboration with the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, showed the A Different Idea of Love exhibition in Yaletown, Vancouver. [7] The exhibition was located in the Maison A1 Warehouse, and co-presented with Maison A1's Christopher Dohm. [8] With around 80 of Warhol's works, this exhibition was considered the largest Warhol collection ever displayed in Canada--until Revolver Gallery surpassed itself with its next show in Toronto. It was originally scheduled to be shown for the month of March, 2015, but was extended by popular demand to April 28, 2015. [9]
Notable Pieces Shown
1974 Rolls Royce Silver Shadow
Keith Haring's Andy Mouse
Four original screenprints by Keith Haring, depicting Andy Warhol as Mickey Mouse on a dollar bill. The screenprints are 38 x 38" each, made with Andy Warhol in 1986. [10] A quote by Haring, equating Warhol to the cultural symbol of Mickey Mouse:
It’s like treating him [Warhol] like he was part of American culture, like Mickey Mouse was. That he himself had become a symbol, a sign for something complete, universally understandable. He sort of made this niche for himself in the culture. As much as Mickey Mouse had…putting him on a dollar bill was just making him even more like an icon or part of the American dream.
–from Haring, Warhol, Disney [11]
Campbell's Soup Wooden Box
John Giotti Unique Portfolio
Marilyn Monroe Full Suite
Campbell's Soup II Full Suite
Press
References
- ^ https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/themes/pop-art
- ^ a b https://m.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-canada-s-largest-andy-warhol-exhibition-ever
- ^ https://www.artsy.net/show/revolver-gallery-andy-warhol-revisited-thirty-years-later-los-angeles
- ^ http://artillerymag.com/events/revolver-gallery-presents-andy-warholrevisited/
- ^ http://www.laweekly.com/event/revolver-gallery-presents-andy-warhol-revisited-7868325
- ^ http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwart/article/Revolver-Gallery-to-Bring-ANDY-WARHOL-REVISITED-Exhibition-to-Toronto-July-1-20150519
- ^ http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/rare-andy-warhol-originals-on-display-in-vancouver-1.2976794
- ^ http://m.digitaljournal.com/a-and-e/arts/andy-warhol-exhibit-a-different-idea-of-love-to-visit-vancouver/article/426364
- ^ http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2015/04/free-andy-warhol-exhibition-extended-april-28/
- ^ http://www.haring.com/!/art-work/576#.WPf4r_QrLrc
- ^ http://www.christies.com/features/Haring-and-Warhol-5831-1.aspx