Gerard Malanga, Poet and Warhol Assistant, New York City
Gerard was an aspiring young poet, fresh out of college when he first went to work as Andy’s painting assistant. He had no idea who Andy was. So what was a typical day for Gerard working at the Silver Factory?
“Late morning, probably, the earliest would be 10:30, maybe 11:00. And I would call Andy ahead of time in case he needed something to be picked up, whether we needed to get a silk screen , pick up a silk screen at the silk screen company down on Canal and Broadway, shlepp that up on the subway if it was small enough, bring it to the Factory on 47th st. or maybe I would have to pick up art supplies or cans of paint, whatever, kind of like a drudgery situation, but things that we needed to do our work for that day, or that week….”