Karen Bystedt x Ron Bass "Pink Andy Pop" The Lost Warhols Collection
Karen Bystedt and Ron Bass "Pink Andy Pop" 2015
Collaboration with artists Karen Bystedt (Photograph) and Ron Bass (Artwork)
Mixed Media, Photography, Krink Markers, Acrylic Paint, Framed.
Dimensions 39 x 39in
Unique
Signed by both artists and includes certificate of authenticity.
ABOUT ARTIST RON BASS
Ron Bass is a free spirited individual born and raised in Brooklyn, NY with an unwavering inspiration of all things emitting Love. A thriving student to the creative world who found his passion and purpose after the loss of his beloved parents. With his distinct love for Pop Art and Fashion, Ron has created works of art and apparel drawing inspiration from his upbringing in Brooklyn, the legendary Jean-Michel Basquiat, Spirituality, African Culture and Textile. His bold and colorful pieces has made its way to the likes and homes of Jay-Z, Beyonce, Blue Ivy, Dave Chapelle, Ellen Degeneres, Swizz Beatz, P.Diddy, Missy Elliot, Cara Delevingne and Chris Brown to name a few. Ron has also secured global partnerships with brands such as Forever 21, Chevrolet, Essence Magazine, Infinity, Three Olives Vodka and Afrika Fifty6. Ron’s ultimate goal is to leave a profound mark in art culture by showcasing love for thyself and others, all while creating art that will inspire and uplift the masses.
ABOUT ARTIST KAREN BYSTEDT
Karen Bystedt is an internationally acclaimed, highly prolific photographer and mixed media artist currently based in Miami, Florida. She has published four photography books including Not Just Another Pretty Face (NAL, 1983), The New Breed (HOLT, 1989), Before They Were Famous (GPG, 1994) and They Dared To Dream (OSLO PROD, 1998). She has photographed film stars and rock and roll icons such as Slash, Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt, Drew Barrymore, Eddie Van Halen, and Jon Bon Jovi. Her work is exhibited in museums across the globe including The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburg, The Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo, and The Armenian Museum of Modern Art., and her images have appeared in dozens of publications including Italian Vogue, Vanity Fair, Connoisseur Magazine, The Peninsula Magazine, Fabrik Magazine, InStyle and People. Her work has been exhibited and sold at Art Basel at Scope, Red Dot, Art Houston, LA Art Fair, Art Hamptons, and at Port Authority in NYC.
ABOUT THE LOST WARHOLS:
In 1983, Karen Bystedt, then a young film student, cold-called Andy Warhol at Interview Magazine and asked him to pose for her book-in-progress featuring the era’s top male models. She had come across an image of the legendary artist modeling for Barney’s and hoped to capture the icon in this unique context. Warhol asked Bystedt whom else she intended to include in this book, upon hearing her answers, he swiftly agreed to join the fold. The resulting images materialize a rare and remarkable sense of vulnerability; in this portrait session, Bystedt captures a soft and submissive Warhol, a man who spoke much of beauty, and its essential mystery, and as is suggested in his rigid pose, his bewildering gaze, and simply, his participation in her project, seemingly so wanted to be seen as beautiful himself.
Bystedt included two of the thirty-six photos shot that afternoon in her book "Not Just Another Pretty Face" published by NAL, and placed the negatives in storage, where they lived untouched for twenty-five years. In 2011, Bystedt felt compelled to revisit her representations of Andy and unearth the images captured that afternoon. She was able to locate ten of her original negatives, yet time and its offspring, reality, had taken its toll on her spellbinding photographs. She dedicated the preceding four months to restoring her Andy, pixel-by-pixel, infusing new life, breath by breath, into her images.
Over the last ten years, this canon has developed and expanded; the work is definitively diverse, representing an eclectic array of artistic identities, thus promoting inclusion whilst positioning the artwork in the realm of the accessible with which Warhol himself toyed. The Lost Warhols live as a testament to the intrinsic value of eclecticism in visual perspective, honoring individuality in interpretation, and allowing the self to shine in position as part of a greater whole.
Works from The Lost Warhol collection are featured in The Andy Warhol Museum, MoMA Olso, Hearst Tower, and many other museums and private collections around the world. They have been auctioned in benefits for AMFAR, Gods Love We Deliver, and recently featured at Red Dot Art Fair for Art Basel Miami 2022.
The Lost Warhols collection has been featured in countless magazines and newspapers, including Vogue, The Times, W Magazine, Architectural Digest, Interview Magazine. NY Post, WWD, LA Weekly and The Huffington Post, among many other international publications.