Adlib Gallery - Wimbleton, London

July 5, 2023 Karen Bystedt

THE LOST WARHOLS

Thursday, 18 May 202318:00
Monday, 19 June 202316:30

Ad Lib Gallery10 Church RoadLondon, England, SW19 5DLUnited Kingdom
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The Lost Warhols Presents

November 16, 2022 Karen Bystedt

Join Artist Karen Bystedt & The Lost Warhols for Red Dot Miami 2022!

To activate your complimentary Collector eTicket, please use this link.

Your Collector eTicket gives you unlimited access to all days and hours of the fair, including Opening Night Preview beginning at 6 p.m.

RED DOT Miami is a leading art show of Miami Art Week which will feature a curated collection by:

Artist KAREN BYSTEDT started her career as a photographer while she was a student at Tish School Of The Arts at NYU. She photographed, Andy Warhol at the 3rd Factory in 1983 for a book she published on Male models. Moving very often after graduating from Tisch, she lost the Negatives and was able to find 10 of 36 in 2011 in an old corrugated cardboard box. After restoring these, now iconic images ( they reside in several museums), Bystedt conceptualized THE LOST WARHOLS collection by making Warhol into the ART collaborating with contemporary artists around the world to paint on top of her images.

Introducing:

Artist NICO SOLIS, a Miami native excelled at engineering early his career. Working on Trap or Die and Let’s Get It: Thug Motivation 101 projects was his big break which led to working with Jazze Pha, Cee-Lo, T.I., Ciara, Nate Dogg, UGK, Beyonce, Snoop Dogg, Future, Kanye West, Jay Z, Dr. Dre among others. His passion for art both as an artist and a collector has led him to create this collection PAY2PLAY using OLD BILLS he has collected over the years from side hustles. Curator, Karen Bystedt, is curating Nico in his first show at Art Basel Miami, RED DOT.

Featuring: MAXIM, SERENA MAISTO, TREW LOVE & BRAYDEN BUGAZZI

BLING BLING Gallery featured in L.A. Times IMAGE

December 28, 2021 Karen Bystedt

**(Bling Bling Gallery)**
Art curator Karen Bystedt of the Lost Warhols has introduced the pop-up Bling Bling Gallery at Beverly Center with works by artist and Adult Swim network emcee-host Randall Byers. On display through Sept. 30 are 20 rhinestone-bedecked pieces by Byers in four rooms themed Future, Psychedelic, Exotic Jungle and Crystal & Mushroom Cave. Some sculptures are embellished with more than 100,000 rhinestones; a blinged-out wig can be tried on for selfies; and an interactive installation features pieces with built-in LED lights. Three times weekly, Byers offers Bling Academy classes where guests learn to bling out wine glasses, vases and more ($80 to $130). Gallery admission $10; sculptures $6,000 to $50,000; home decor $100 to $800. Bling Bling Gallery, Beverly Center, Heirs to the Throne Gallery, 8500 Beverly Blvd., Level 6, Los Angeles. *beverlycenter.com*

L.A. Times Article

VLOG: Artist Karen Bystedt to Install Art in 5 Public Walls at Port Authority NYC

August 23, 2019 Karen Bystedt

I am so excited to announce my upcoming collaboration with

Curator Myron Johnson.

Next week, I will be installing my art up at 5 public walls within

Port Authority NYC to the viewership of 225 thousand a week.

KING Andy and Basquiat, the Gold Queen, A MODERN CONVERSATION WITH BASQUIAT and my latest creation

Little Andy

will debut September 28th, 2019

Stop by and check out the live installation at NYC Port Authority on the 28th of September 2019 and thereafter

- January 31st.

Queen Karen

VLOG: ONE. TWO. ANDY - A PHOTO, TWO ARTISTS SERENA MAISTO & RAUL33 @ ARTRUST SWITZERLAND

August 1, 2019 Karen Bystedt

ONE. TWO. ANDY.
One photo, two artists, and the myth of Pop Art.

SERENA MAISTO, RAUL
in collaboration with KAREN BYSTEDT

16 September – 20 December 2019

Artrust
Via Pedemonte di Sopra 1
6818 – Melano (CH)

Monday to Friday from 10.00 to 18.00
Saturday from 14.00 to 18.00
other times on request, closed on holidays

FREE ENTRY

More information and contacts:
+41 (0) 91 649 33 36
info@artrust.ch

THE ARTISTS BEHIND THE EXHIBITION:

Here's one of the stars of our next exhibition, "One. Two. Andy - One photo, two artists, and the myth of Pop Art". Acclaimed #photographer and mixed media #artist, #KarenBystedt grew up between #London and #California. Educated between #Paris and #New York, she now lives in Downtown Los Angeles. Among the years, she has published four photography books and her artworks have known massive success: her shots have appeared on dozens of publications and her pieces of art were exposed in various museums all across the world. In 2014, one of her murals was included in the "Top Ten Murals" of the city by "LA Weekly". Today, she keeps working non-stop, accommodating her artistic flow. #onetwoandy #raul #serenamaisto #artrust #show #comingsoon #september2019 #september19

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Photo of Karen Bystedt by Doheny Photo

One. Two. Andy – One photo, two artists, and the myth of Pop Art will exhibit the duo, Serena Maisto and Raul who, each with their own personal style, reinterpreted a photograph shot by Karen Bystedt, belonging to the series “The Lost Warhols”.

Serena Maisto and Raul, in their interaction with Bystedt and Warhol, operate by adhering to their own personal poetics. The first – inaugurating a new phase of her artistic career- reflects on the theme of desegregation, almost cellular of the image: “The decomposition of the image contains within it a very simple concept of life, the return to zero, to nothing, to the origins of everything, and shows how from a biological point of view, we are all the same. However, it is incredible how the brain can still recognize even the eye of Andy Warhol, or the hair “.

Raul instead materializes the reflection on photography, through the pictorial, instinctive and primordial gesture, typical of his production: “I was struck by Warhol’s gaze in the photo shoot, which deeply penetrates into the viewer and this encouraged my gestural meditation, which resulted in the use of various techniques and colors”.

“The exhibition is completely innovative compared to the usual exhibitions proposed by our gallery, because it focuses, for the first time, on the photographic medium. It also encourages the interaction between four artists, while at the same time four different declinations of the work of art – states Patrizia Cattaneo Moresi, Director of Artrust SA – first of all, Serena Maisto and Raul, who with their creations are confronted with the original photography by Karen Bystedt, and eventually Andy Warhol himself, who in his iconic being is a work of art personified”.

They come from different worlds, Ticino and Abruzzo. They have completely different artistic paths and #styles. Just like two straight lines bounded to cross, @serenamaisto and @raul33 found their meeting point. And they did it here in Melano, with us, under the sign of Andy Warhol. From September 16th "One. Two. Andy", their first #duoexhibition, in collaboration with @karenbystedt . #thelostwarhols #karenbystedt #art #contemporaryart #photography #collaboration #artrust #exhibition #project #artist

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