Remains
The Warhol, Pittsburgh
November 2, 2016 – January 15, 2017

Remains, 2016
personal items from my life and Andy Warhol’s life, ambiguously mingled (mummified foot on paper; bees, hole-punched paper and fingernails in tin; bone; foam bone; unhatched eggs found in a chapel; bee; feathers; interior cast of naval in beeswax; photograph; burnt polymer clay; seashell; raw copper gifted to artist* on a first date; glove with paint; wishbone; crystal; artist’s fingernails; back scratcher; plaster cast of a stranger’s mouth; fingernails from a drag queen; artist’s fingers cast in plastic; polaroid of artist’s hand; artist’s hospital bracelet; impressions of artist’s boyfriend’s nipples in porcelain with glazes; party invitation; aluminum dental molds; beeswax casts of plastic taxidermy tongues; wax cast of artist’s teeth; wisdom teeth from someone the artist used to love; chewing gum; hair from the artist’s friend in acrylic box with portrait; telephone; glass taxidermy eyes; great-great grandfather’s eyeglasses with cloth; false eyelash from a drag queen; false eyelash from artist’s grandma, with mascara; artist’s wigs; cast bronze ear; pressed flower; hair from a friend with rubberband; deformed plaster cast of fingers; polaroids; metal shoe braces; plastic clown finger; 3D printed coral fragment in bronze and enlarged in plastic; artist’s underwear; cast bronze lips; pressed and dried fig leaf; cast plaster of artist’s fingers; rubber hand; interior cast of naval in plaster; crutch handle; ceramic with glaze; cast bronze toy hand; mannequin hand; gallstones in jar, gifted from a friend; artist’s watch; plastic taxidermy tongues; plaster cast of plastic taxidermy tongues; wind up chattering teeth toy; cherry stem tied by the mouth of a stranger; wisdom teeth from an ex-boyfriend of the artist; wisdom tooth cast in silver; impression of artist’s teeth in ceramic with glaze; plastic costume ear; artist’s sunglasses; moth; false eyelashes on plastic packaging; eye cream sample packaging; antique hair; artist’s grandma’s hairpiece; hair of unknown provenance; hair of the artist’s sister in rubberband; hair of the artist’s friend with archival bow; hair of the artist’s friend; artificial hair extension)


The Warhol Museum Blog: "The underwear were cuter than I thought..." by Adam Milner
Hyperallergic: Andy Warhol’s Self-Conscious and Perfect Bodies by Elisa Wouk Almino









