05/28/2026
Just a handful of tickets left for this incredible evening with Gerard Malanga! 🙌
Gerard Malanga is known as Andy Warhol's most important contributor, and I can't believe this is happening!!!
No surprise, but the Factory, Andy Warhol and the whole ✨ SCENE ✨ with the superstars and what they were doing with art - I just thought that was the
🌸 GR👁️🗨️👁️🗨️VIEST 🌸
It was a HUGE influence on me in starting Peach Berserk oh-so-many decades ago!
It's a real ✨ pinch me ✨ moment that I'm hosting him here at my famous silkscreen studio in Toronto!
When I was reading about it all in art school, and dreaming of ever being so cool as to be an artist and have a creative career and a place like the Factory, I had no idea that one day in 2026, I'd be hosting such a major artist and getting to hear about that era right from him! In MY own version of the Factory, no less!!
Here's the link for event details:
https://peachberserk.ca/products/a-creative-life-with-gerard-malanga
And here are some fun facts about Gerard and his career!
He began as Warhol's studio assistant, helping him with the silkscreening of his paintings.
In 1963, Malanga was looking for a summer job when poet Charles Henri Ford introduced him pop artist Andy Warhol. Malanga had previously silkscreened fabrics for a necktie designer, and Warhol needed assistance with silkscreening.
He was immediately hired by Warhol at $1.25 per hour. "The first was the Elizabeth Taylor portrait. Ethel Scull 36 Times, Elvis Presley, Death and Disasters—we put out a lot of stuff, just the two of us," Malanga recalled.
In September, Malanga drove to California with Warhol, Wynn Chamberlain, and Taylor Mead for Warhol's solo exhibition at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles. He never returned to Wagner College. "That summer job lasted seven years," he said.
Malanga was also involved in Warhol's filmmaking at the Factory. He appeared in films such as Kiss (1964), Harlot (1964), Soap Opera (1964), Couch (1964), Vinyl (1965), and Camp (1965). He played a combination of Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby in Warhol's film Since (1966).
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