Julian Nykolak
Julian Nykolak is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at California State University, Los Angeles. His current book manuscript examines the politics of collectivity and painting in French art circa 1968, and his research has previously appeared in Art History, Art Journal, and Selva. He is an alumnus of the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester and the Whitney Independent Study Program.
In 1966, Andy Warhol debuted his Silver Clouds, a set of glittering rectangular flotations made from Scotchpak and developed in collaboration with engineer Billy Klüver. In interviews at the time, Warhol repeatedly described the works as a way of giving up painting (just a phase!) in favor of filmmaking.
