by Michael Winters
Sojourn Arts interns at the exhibit . “Eggs,” 1982. Andy Warhol.
The Speed Museum is now exhibiting Andy Warhol: Revelation, “the first exhibition to comprehensively examine the Pop artist’s complex Catholic faith in relation to his artistic production.”
When the exhibit was shown previously at The Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, artist and art critic Jonathan Anderson gave a talk, sponsored by the Beatrice Institute, titled “Religion in the Age of Mass Media: Andy Warhol’s Catholicism”. This talk gives a lot of additional background information and insight into the exhibit.
The Sojourn Arts team watched this video before we went and it really helped us appreciate the experience, so we recommend checking out both this video and the in-real-life exhibit.
In addition to giving this insightful talk, Jonathan Anderson is an artist. Back in 2008 or so, we exhibited paintings from his series Groundings.
His writings have also shaped the ways in which we think about our work as Sojourn Arts, especially the book Modern Art and the Life of a Culture: The Religious Impulses of Modernism, which he co-authored with William Dyrness. He’s a go-to figure to follow for the intersection of contemporary art and faith. His instagram account leads to fascinating contemporary art you might not come across elsewhere.