Lady McCrady

Power and Light, Burning Flashing and Steaming Painting Installations

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Danger, Wet Floor 0564. 24h x22w x13d in. Plaster 

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Danger, Wet Floor 0564. 24h x22w x13 in. Plaster. View 2

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Astro Ray Playground 0581. 8h x10w x4d in. Plaster, hydrocal, steel.

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Danger Sprout 0600. 25h x25w x 15d. Plaster, Foam.

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Carnival Cruise Coronavirus 0586. 7h x10 x5inches. Plaster, foam

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Milkman Drifter 0590. 22h x12 x10inches. Plaster, foam. https://www.artsy.net/artist/lady-mccrady

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Drifter, Ship of Fools 0588. Plaster. 62h x13 x11″. https://www.artsy.net/artist/lady-mccrady

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AT THE WHITNEY, CHRYSSA DIGS INTO THE PHOTOGRAPHIC APPROPRIATON THAT WARHOL RAN WITH

THE DAILY PIC is “Untitled (March 26, 1962),” by the Greek artist named Chryssa and now in the Whitney Museum’s collection. I’ve written (here and in my Andy Warhol bio) about Chryssa as one of several female artists who might have had an influence on Warhol. He started to do repeated, allover photo-silkscreened appropriations of printed sources — dollar bills, for instance — shortly after Chryssa was appropriating and repeating passages from newspapers, as in this lithograph, which I was pleased to come across for the first time in the Whitney’s current show called “Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019″. Like Warhol with his silkscreens, Chryssa must have used a photographic technique to get the newspaper image onto her litho stone. (If the Whitney is right about the medium that Chryssa used for this print.)

Something else that struck this Warholian: Chryssa’s litho is printed onto cloth, and (in my bio and here) I’ve argued for the importance of textile traditions and technologies, and Warhol’s knowledge of them, in understanding the source and significance of his silkscreening.

For a full survey of past Pics visit blakegopnik.com/archive.

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Andy was open to exchanging ideas from young and other artists. He was surprisingly conversational. He told me he had his wig cut to match my assymetric London cut. I was making cliche verre drawing prints with silver dust, we discussed his piss paintings (chemical reaction with maybe copper?) and he threw diamond dust on his silk screen prints of the Wicked Witch from the Wizard of Oz.