Opening February 25, 2026, Silkscreen Paintings: Prince, Warhol, Wool at Skarstedt brings together key works from the 1980s through the early 2000s that reframe silkscreen as more than a commercial shortcut. In the hands of Andy Warhol, Richard Prince, and Christopher Wool, the process becomes a way to probe authorship, reproduction, and the strange instability of images pulled from mass culture.
Warhol’s Knives from 1981 to 1982 strips violent imagery down to pure form, its reduced palette and uneven inking foregrounding imperfections rather than hiding them. Each variation resists uniformity, turning mechanical repetition into something unpredictable. Prince’s Spy vs. Spy from 1991 and Lady Doc II from 1992 take a colder approach, lifting jokes and cartoon fragments and suspending them in white painted fields. His brushwork interrupts and obscures, scrambling meaning and exposing the uneasy space between humour and hostility.
Wool’s Give It Up or Turn It Loose from 1994 pushes silkscreen into dense abstraction, layering generic floral motifs with black screenings and white overpainting. By reusing and reprinting his own imagery, often with deliberate misalignment, Wool collapses the line between original and copy, making reproduction itself the subject.
Running through April 18, the exhibition makes clear that silkscreen never fully erased the artist’s hand. It gave it new ground to operate on.
