My view of Warhol is like a pendulum – constantly swinging back and forth between love and indifference. However this series – especially this presentation of this body of work is one of the true highlights of his work as a painter. The work consists of a number of presentations of the same two images with the only difference being the limited color palette and minor underpainting. While using these minimal tools to great effect, “Shadows” shows why someone once said that maybe only ten people in the world really know anything about painting at any given time – and Warhol was always one of those ten.
Shadows is On view through March 27, 2011 at Dia:Beacon and will be travelling to the Chicago Arts Club in April, 2011 and the Hirshhorn in October 2011.