Rebecca X Warhol

"As you enter the very small, glass-fronted and brightly lit 67 York Street Gallery in the Marylebone area of London, you are greeted by three historic photographs: some of the earliest portraits of Andy Warhol, taken in the early 1960s at the very beginning of the Pop Art Movement, which Warhol was instrumental in creating. This is a very young, characteristically unsmiling Warhol, with his recognisable mop of platinum hair,"

"In the image that really grabbed me, Warhol, asked to show one of his works, raises a Marilyn', one of the earliest images of the glamorous film star to whom he would return again and again during his career; but, as the medium is transparent, you can see the artist standing behind it, so that the photograph is an arresting composite of artist and art."

"Rebecca Walker's work on show, a dozen pieces altogether, attests to her love of and fascination with London. This is not, however, London as you know it Rebecca Walker doesn't do portraiture. It is, rather, London as seen by her and depicted in pen and ink drawings with the finest, most delicate touch that create compositions the minute detail of which will keep you absorbed for a long time."

Three early 1960s portraits of Andy Warhol by William John Kennedy appear in a small Marylebone gallery, including a translucent Marilyn image revealing the artist behind his work. Those Warhol photographs remained in storage for nearly fifty years before release. The exhibition centers on Rebecca Walker's first public showing, featuring a dozen pen-and-ink drawings that reinterpret London with minute, delicate detail. Walker avoids portraiture and instead layers composed public scenes into intricate, absorbing tableaux. One work, 'Gathering for Christmas', juxtaposes familiar urban landmarks with Walker's distinctive compositional reimagining.

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