Andy Warhol turned to abstraction in his Shadow (Diamond Dust) series, marking a radical shift from his popular, vibrant representations of cultural icons and commodity symbols. While still representational, these paintings depict images of actual shadows photographed in his studio, screenprinted onto canvas, and embellished with paint and inexpensive crushed glass that he referred to as “diamond dust.” The resulting paintings feel mysterious and enigmatic. The glitz and glimmer of the diamond dust confuse an austere reading of these strikingly monochromatic works. In life, as shadows change and vanish, we understand them as both something and nothing. These paintings concentrate on the unseen, the unknown, and perhaps the unsaid.