Andy Warhol: Campbell’s Soup Cans Skateboard Decks
The Skateroom has collaborated with the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts to produce this set of eight skateboard decks featuring a painting from Warhol’s iconic thirty-two-canvas series, Campbell’s Soup Cans (1962). Each deck depicts a can of tomato soup—the first flavor the company introduced—in a different color combination, against a contrasting ground.
When Warhol first exhibited Campbell’s Soup Cans, at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles, the canvases were displayed in rows on shelves to echo products on sale in a grocery store. Although the paintings resemble the mass-produced products that inspired Warhol, the canvases were hand-painted (the series predates Warhol’s use of screen printing). Warhol famously said of Campbell’s soup, “I used to drink it. I used to have the same lunch every day, for twenty years, I guess, the same thing over and over again.”
The decks are intended for decorative purposes, but can be assembled into functioning skateboards. One wall mount per deck is provided to hang the edition on the wall.
Producer: The Skateroom
Year: 2015
Material: 7-ply Canadian maple
Dimensions: each 31 × 8 inches (78.4 × 20.3 cm)
Signed: Printed signature
