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  Ashland • Schneider Museum of Art at Southern Oregon University
 
  Coos Bay • Coos Art Museum
 
  Eugene • University of Oregon Museum of Art
 
  Marylhurst • The Art Gym at Marylhurst University
 
  Portland • Portland Art Museum
    • Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
 
  Salem • Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University

 

University of Oregon Museum of Art

One Step Big Shot: Portraits by Andy Warhol and Gus Van Sant

May 16 through September 5, 2010 

 

Behind a Polaroid camera Andy Warhol and Gus Van Sant probed innumerable acquaintances and strangers in the process of crafting their art—Warhol’s paintings and screenprints of people and objects and Van Sant’s characters in film.  Warhol’s portraits were transformed into iconic Pop images.  Van Sant’s Polaroid pictures helped him cast characters for his films. In reflection these one-step photographs became indelible images. 
 

 

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