Inside – KOBRA x Andy Warhol/Unangst – A Historic Unreleased Contemporary Art Exhibit Opening September 2025
September 18th & 19th, 2025 6-9pm | 500 W 22nd St @10th (across from Mt Rushmore of Art)

New York, NY – World Debut in Chelsea. KOBRA x Andy. KOBRA paints over Andrew Unangst’s famous images of Andy Warhol | 500 W 22nd St @10th ave (across from Mt Rushmore of Art) Andrew “Andy” Unangst is a renowned American fashion and commercial photographer, celebrated for his iconic portraits and cover images for major publications including Time, ARTnews, and features in LIFE magazine.

Unangst has revived two of his most iconic images from his archives to collaborate with internationally acclaimed muralist Eduardo KOBRA on a series of nine striking large-scale indoor paintings. KOBRA has completed over 3,000 murals globally, including 20 in New York City and has been recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records for his artwork at the 2016 RIO Olympic
Games. KOBRA’s revered mural, Mt. Rushmore of Art (2018), located on 22nd Street and 10th Avenue in Chelsea, New York City, famously incorporates Unangst’s celebrated 1985 photograph of
Andy Warhol, Andy with Arms Folded. Unangst’s Warhol Studio Series (1985) is among the most replicated and reproduced images of the legendary pop artist. The portraits are held in the permanent collections of The Andy Warhol Museum, a version at The Whitney Museum of American Art, and significant private collections including that of Larry Gagosian. One of the photographs also appears on the cover of the legendary book The Andy Warhol Diaries. His prolific body of work includes celebrated portraits of
notable figures such as Ron Wood of The Rolling Stones, Howard Stern, Arthur Ashe, and Peter Beard —the latter for Warhol’s Interview Magazine (1986), taken at Unangst’s studio at 381 Park
Avenue South.

Unangst has exhibited at leading galleries including Pace Gallery and Gagosian Gallery and has collaborated with photographic luminaries such as Richard Avedon and Peter Beard. He was named Photographer of the Year by AdWeek magazine and was included in the Whitney Museum’s landmark Photographs of the Century exhibition. His versatility extends beyond portraiture-he has
produced acclaimed book covers for authors such as Stephen King and Frank Herbert (notably for the Dune series). Unangst, whose indigenous heritage is part Cherokee, also wrote, produced and
directed a short film that won American Indian Film Festival and Native American Music Awards, known for their chief juror, Marlon Brando.

Public and private viewings, with extended hours, will begin Tuesday, September 16th, 2025, with special receptions on September 18th and 19th from 6:30-9:30pm. TAWBP. The show and
receptions will be held at 500 West 22nd St, Chelsea, NYC, diagonally across from Mt. Rushmore of Art.