Pop & Op : Mid-Century Prints
Dates: October 8 – December 20, 2025
Location: The Arts Center West Gallery
About the Artists
JOSEF ALBERS is a German born Yale University art teacher who was a pioneer in color theory, and his Homage to the Square series of paintings, reproduced partially in this exhibit as serigraphs, is his best known. The series is comprised of more than 1000 works, begun in 1950 and continuing into the 1970s.
Josef Albers with an Homage to the Square painting, New Haven, Connecticut, ca. 1965. Photo: John Hill © 2025 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
ANDY WARHOL pioneered social media by becoming the first artist who was simultaneously a celebrity and star on camera- friends with celebrities and closely tied to media & marketing. A wide breadth of art was created by Warhol: photographs, prints, paintings, and film. Andy Warhol was the leader of the Pop Art movement- his work becoming the most influential in the second half of the 20th century.
VICTOR VASARELY fathered the Op-Art movement, which focused on issues of perception usually in the second dimension. His early career as a graphic artist developed into iconic screen-printed optical illusions. Vasarely’s work also abstracted geometry in an attempt to highlight perspective through the relationship of the composition.
Andy Warhol in from of Brillo Products, Stockholm, Sweden, 1968. Photo: Lasse Olsson / Pressens bild. Public Domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andy-Warhol-Stockholm-1968.jpg Accessed October 6, 2025.