Brigid Berlin, a fixture of the downtown art world in the ’60s and ’70s, will be forever associated with Andy Warhol — the Factory superstar played Duchess, a version of herself as a lesbian drug dealer, in Warhol and Paul Morrissey’s 1966 film “Chelsea Girls” — but three years after her death in 2020, a new exhibition considers Berlin’s art in its own right.
“Brigid really was an innovator when you think of the way she used persona as a medium,” says Alison M. Gingeras, who has curated “Brigid Berlin: The Heaviest,” at New York’s Vito Schnabel Gallery, which examines the artist’s life, from her tony uptown upbringing to her secluded later life, with the wild times in between.
“For too long she has been pushed into the footnotes.” In a room that features the same wallpaper as Berlin’s Murray Hill apartment, visitors can peruse photos and letters from her childhood.
“Brigid Berlin: The Heaviest,” is on view through Aug. 18, vitoschnabel.com.
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Brigid Berlin, Andy Warhol, Warhol, Paul Morrissey’s, “ Brigid, ”, Alison M, Gingeras, New York’s Vito Schnabel, tony, Murray, Honey Berlin, Robert Rauschenberg, Willem de Kooning, Larry Rivers, “ Brigid Berlin
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New, Max’s Kansas City, Seoul