Edie 66 centers around Outer and Inner Space, Andy Warhol’s rare 1966 film starring Edie Sedgwick. Created using newly available video technology, the work marked Warhol’s first double-projected film and one of his earliest experiments combining film and video imagery. The piece presents Sedgwick seated beside a television monitor playing a prerecorded image of herself, creating the uncanny illusion of Edie in dialogue with her own image. Projected simultaneously across two screens, the work fragments and multiplies her presence, transforming Sedgwick into both subject and spectacle while anticipating later developments in video art and mediated portraiture.

 

Alongside Outer and Inner Space, the exhibition brings together an exceptional group of related works, including Warhol’s iconic Cow wallpaper from the 1966 Leo Castelli Gallery exhibition, as well as four alternate screen tests of Edie Sedgwick by Warhol. Unlike the better-known Screen Tests, which were often silent and static, these alternate takes reveal a more spontaneous and psychologically complex portrait of Sedgwick, capturing subtle shifts in expression, pose, and self-awareness before Warhol’s camera. Together, the works trace Sedgwick’s emergence as the defining face of the Factory and one of the most enduring figures of 1960s counterculture.

 

The exhibition also features an extensive and intimate group of photographs of Sedgwick by Jerry Schatzberg, drawn from the celebrated 1965–66 photo sessions that captured her at the height of her cultural influence. Unlike Warhol’s detached and serial approach to portraiture, Schatzberg’s photographs reveal Sedgwick with remarkable psychological depth, balancing glamour, vulnerability, charisma, and spontaneity. Taken both in studio settings and within the downtown world surrounding the Factory, the images present Sedgwick not simply as Warhol’s muse, but as a singular and deeply magnetic presence whose style and persona came to define an era.

 

Gerard Malanga contributes an extraordinary compilation of photobooth images that capture Sedgwick’s playful and spirited personality with immediacy and intimacy, reflecting the improvisational energy of the Factory itself. More than simply a participant in Warhol’s circle, Malanga was one of the central creative figures of the Factory during its most influential years — serving as Warhol’s chief assistant, collaborator, cinematographer, performer, and editor between 1963 and 1970. Widely regarded as one of Warhol’s most important collaborators, Malanga played a crucial role in the production of the Screen Tests, Warhol’s films, silkscreen paintings, and multimedia happenings, helping to shape the visual language and atmosphere that came to define the Factory.

 

Completing Edie 66 is a collection of never-before-seen photographs by Adam Ritchie of The Velvet Underground at their first apartment on Ludlow Street, alongside images of the band performing onstage with Edie Sedgwick and Gerard Malanga. Together, these works provide a vivid glimpse into Sedgwick’s world and the creative atmosphere surrounding the Factory scene during one of the most influential cultural moments of the 1960s.