In the manner of Andy Warhol
American, 1928–1987
Cardboard Boxes, 2026
Silkscreen on canvas
102 × 102 cm
Never painted.
Commissioned for the collection, 2026.
PAB 2026.22.4
Stacks of brown cardboard boxes, printed in flat brown and black, repeated nine times across a grid of yellow, turquoise and pink. In the middle one stack has gone electric pink, the way one parcel in a hundred arrives in the wrong colour. Warhol stacked printed Brillo boxes on a gallery floor as if they were sculpture. These are already stacked in every hallway in the city.
The brief
A stack of plain brown cardboard delivery boxes printed in flat brown and black with one box in electric pink. Pop art silkscreen on canvas, a photographic image reduced to high-contrast flat blocks of garish colour, repeated in a grid with slight misregistration between prints, acid pink, yellow, turquoise and black, deadpan commercial flatness, screen texture and ink bleed. Museum photograph of the silkscreen canvases, flat even lighting, no frame, no text, no wall, no floor, cropped to the canvas edge.
Written to the house rules. The painter's name does not appear.
Take it home
The painting on this room's wall, at its own proportions, nothing written on it.
