untitled, Betsey Johnson

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Betsey Johnson, untitled
Betsey Johnson, untitled
Betsey Johnson
untitled
circa 1980
untitled, circa 1980
Portfolio/Series title: Artifacts at the End of a Decade
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: offset lithograph; wove paper
Dimensions:
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): 1287 x 391 x 100 mm
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): 50 11/16 x 15 3/8 x 3 15/16 in
Credit line: Museum purchase: National Endowment for the Arts and Mr. and Mrs. Francisco Drohojowski
Accession number: 1989.0005.08
Not on display
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Exhibition Label: “Big Shots: Andy Warhol, Celebrity Culture and the 1980s,” Aug-2009, Susan Earle Johnson is a fashion designer and was a frequenter of the Factory. Warhol had many connections to fashion, including shoe illustrations and a series of silkscreen dresses that he made. Betsey Johnson has a reputation as fashion’s wild child, creating clothing with flowing fabrics and whimsical details, and also has connections to The Velvet Underground’s musicians. She described the work displayed here as: Striped-strong-second skins... Timeless- ageless-almost sizeless... Washable- packable-mixable-stackable... Affordable- affectual-not intellectual... Black to white-punk to petticoats-neon to niceness- plastic to natural to plastic-new to old to new... 1-2-1-2-1-2 ...Cycles-life in fabric. My face = my life: Short-long... Soft- hard... Old-new... Happy-sad... Black- white. My world is of OPPOSITES.