Andy Warhol’s
Social Network

For the exhibition Andy Warhol’s Social Network, I worked closely with Jessica Beck, then-Chief Curator at The Andy Warhol Museum, on the development, design, and production of all didactic texts and object labels. The exhibition examined the intersections between Warhol’s longest running project, Interview magazine; his ventures in television with his original series Fashion, Warhol TV, and Warhol’s Fifteen Minutes; and his portrait commissions of the 1970s and 1980s. It also spotlighted the work of Richard Bernstein (1939–2002), the artist responsible for the iconic covers of Interview from 1972 to 1989, presenting over seventy of his original collages installed against a backdrop of Warhol Wallpaper (1973), produced and displayed for the first time.

Alongside Beck and Danielle Linzer, the museum’s Director of Education, I devised interpretive strategies that guided how the didactic texts and object labels for the exhibition would be crafted. We found an excellent design partner in Frank J. Mondragon, a Brooklyn-based designer whose past clients include The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Walker Art Center, DesignWorks, and Pitchfork Media, among others. We collaborated closely on the look and feel of intro and section texts, as well as the design of object labels including tombstones, chats, and vitrines.

In addition to project-managing all editorial and design elements, I edited all in-gallery texts. Included below is a closer look at the exhibition and its interpretive elements.