“Kim Gordon: Lo-Fi Glamour,” the first solo North American museum exhibition by the Sonic Youth co-founder, will open at The Andy Warhol Museum on May 17.

It will consist of paintings, drawings and sculpture, as well as a commissioned score titled “Sound for Andy Warhol’s Kiss” for Warhol’s 1963–64 silent film “Kiss.”

Warhol was an early influence on the New York punk/noise musician, as Gordon has noted in interviews and in her memoir, “Girl in a Band.” “I was interested in the lo-fi take on popular culture that Andy Warhol represented,” she said in a 2013 interview with W Magazine.

According to the Warhol release, “The exhibition layout will feature new, never-before shown figure drawings, along with sculptures that highlight the eroticism and elegance of Warhol’s Kiss. The exhibition also will highlight Gordon’s persistent use of language in her paintings with obscure band names in her Noise Name paintings, and phrases lifted from the media for her Twitter Paintings.”

A limited-edition vinyl double LP of the score, recorded live in The Warhol theater Aug. 1-2, 2018, with Bill Nace, Steve Gunn and John Truscinski, will be released. It will feature three sides of audio on clear vinyl, with a silkscreen still image from the film “Kiss” on the fourth side of the record, and an inserted booklet featuring work from the Kim Gordon: Lo-Fi Glamour exhibition. An insert of essays will accompany the vinyl.

This project is co-curated by Jessica Beck, Milton Fine curator of art, and Ben Harrison, curator of performing arts.

First Published: February 6, 2019, 5:19 p.m.