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"a good picture is … of a famous person doing something unfamous. It’s about being in the right place at the wrong time"
Andy Warhol

Basquiat was a very interesting, soft-spoken, young African-American artist. The picture
that I have of Basquiat holding the globe: it’s no accidet that he’s holding Africa in the
picture because in many ways, he felt like he was the token black artist. He understood that
he was the black artist that everybody wanted but he wasn’t sure if they wanted him or his
work.

To open the Fall art season in Los Angeles, a exhibition specially curated by David Fahey, with a studio visit in New York City, is where this exhibition began, and will be showing over 40 works, among many disciplines, from classical Black and  Photos, to a series of "Sewn Photos, along with a number of darkroom collages, spaning the years from the early 70's up to the current day.

This exhibit is Warhol away from the Factory, away from New York, enjoying a restorative and deep engagement with the natural environment, at the beach, in the woods and in the Colora-do mountains. The exhibit challenges the caricatured image of the commercial, caracturized And Warhol as a plastic figure obsessed with consumerism, advertising and shallow society.

In this work a more gentle Warhol emerges. He is seen relaxing at Eothen, his Montauk, Long Is-land, seaside home; enjoying Central Park where he found tranquility in the middle of Manhattan’s madness; and skiing on the slopes and through the forestss in the Colorado mountains. Warhol’s connection to nature, as surprising and unexpected as some may find it, ultimately led him to be-queath his multi-million dollar Montauk property to The Nature Conservancy, which established a preserve and visual arts program in his honor.

Daniel Cooney Fine Art is pleased to announce our second solo exhibition by Christopher Makos titled MONEY. A career montage featuring unseen vintage work from every stage of the artist’s life, MONEY features a selection of over 60 unique photographs, collages, and assemblages that celebrate the money shot: daring, climactic and outrageous.

Join us for a discussion with artist Christopher Makos and Jessica Beck, Milton Fine curator of art, to celebrate the release of his new book Andy Warhol Modeling Portfolio Makos—a photographic portrait of Andy Warhol’s early modeling career.

In celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the Wahrol trip to China, which started in Hong Kong, and then as a surprise to our party, the art dealer Jeffrey Deitch, organized a 3 day trip to Beijing. This exhibition, is a visual celebration of that trip

This exhibit has now been moved to Noon Consulting art and will be exhibited there until April 25th Please visit the exhibition at Chaussée De Louvain 803 1140 Bruxelles

Echo to the exhibition « Warhol – The American Dream Factory » organised by Tempora in La Boverie Museum of Liège

PRESS RELEASE

Christopher Makos, né en 1948 dans le Massachusetts, grandit en Californie et s’installa à New York après sa scolarité. Dans les années 70, il part à Paris pour suivre des études d’architecture et travaille comme apprenti auprès de Man Ray.

This exhibition has already opened, and is still availble to view in person, or online

A special curated selection of unique silver gelatin print curated in collaboration with Daniel Cooney. Some "Sewn Photo", some collage images, and all Silver Gelatin prints from the Makos archives

This exhibition of Warhol's work comes directly from the TATE MODERN in London, where I participated with my Altered Images works that Andy and I colaborated on, these same works will be show at this venue

This exhbition is about the "American-ness" of Warhol, and how he was the ultimate American artist, finding his inspiration in everything American. I am participating in this show with my photographs which show and support Andy being that American artist that he is, and was.

The 25 giclee prints in this exhibition document the 1980s in America and Germany, particularly the generation of New York artists and musicians who came to fame then. Makos had a column in Warhol’s magazine Interview, where many of these images first appeared. Most of the Berlin images were taken during Makos’ and Warhol’s trips to Germany during this period. These Makos images reflect the very rich cultural texture of this period on both sides of the Atlantic