Four Marilyns (Yellow/Orange/Pink/Blue)
Artist: WarHo™
Year: 2024
Medium: Four screenprints on canvas with acrylic polymer paint and silkscreen ink. Signed on verso.
Size: 44 x 44 in.
WarHo™ is an artist who emerged from outside the traditional corridors of formal art training to become a devoted experimenter of the screenprinting medium. WarHo's work is both a homage and a deep dive into the methods of Andy Warhol.
Driven by a documentarian's impulse, WarHo began his artistic journey by reconstructing Warhol's techniques to understand the nuances of his process. His work is characterized by a meticulous approach to sourcing photographs, creating original screens, and hand-pulling each silkscreen print. This hands-on method allows him to replicate not just the aesthetic, but the very essence of Warhol's art—complete with its imperfections and idiosyncrasies.
Walking the line between admiration and imitation, WarHo places himself in the lineage of artists who, inspired by Warhol, seek to bring his images into new contexts. In doing so, WarHo reintroduces Warhol’s imagery while offering works at a scale and price that democratizes the work of Warhol for modern audiences.
In his latest collection of Marilyns, WarHo offers 12" x 12" and 40" x 40" unique pieces that that echo the grandeur of Warhol’s celebrity portraiture, yet remain accessible to modern audiences. Each piece is a testament to WarHo's reverence for Warhol’s methodology, a love letter to the original, and an exploration of the thin boundary between flattery and forgery.