Marisol and Warhol
Take New York

For the exhibition Marisol and Warhol Take New York, I worked closely with Jessica Beck, Milton Fine Curator of Art at The Andy Warhol Museum, on the development, design, and production of all didactic texts and object labels as well as the show’s groundbreaking catalogue, which reasserts Marisol’s importance to the origins of Pop Art. Published by the museum, the catalogue includes thoughtful and incisive essays by Beck, Angie Cruz, Jeffrey Deitch, Eleanor Friedberger, and Jennifer Josten, as well as an interview with Franklin Sirmans, director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, which hosted the second iteration of the exhibition.

Early on we decided that the look and feel of the exhibition would echo the aesthetic of the catalogue—clean and modern with brilliant color. We found an excellent design team in Adam Michaels and Marina Kitchen of IN-FO.CO. The pair helped us strike the right balance between intellectual and playful, a look and feel that was threaded through all aspects of the exhibition and catalogue.

Working alongside Jessica Beck and Danielle Linzer, the museum’s Director of Education, I helped devise interpretive strategies that guided how the didactic texts and object labels for the exhibition would be crafted. In addition to project-managing all editorial and design elements, I edited all in-gallery texts as well. Included below is a closer look at the book and exhibition.