Education
She attended Quintano"s School for Young Professionals, a high school for the performing arts
She attended Quintano"s School for Young Professionals, a high school for the performing arts
She committed suicide in 1972. Andrea Feldman was a native New Yorker. She starred in three Warhol films.
Imitation of Christ, Trash and Heat.
A regular in the back room of Max"s Kansas City, she pioneered a performance which she called "Showtime", in which she performed a strip tease on the round table, at the center of the room. She became known for her dependence on drugs, particularly amphetamines.
Feldman was featured in a 1970 documentary called Groupies, where she referred to herself by a nickname given to her by the Warhol crowd. Andrea "Whips" Feldman.
She also often referred to herself as "Andrea Warhol".
She was known by her friends as "Crazy Andy". "A lot of people in the Warhol scene pretended to be crazy, but Andrea really was. She had endless money for everything but mental health.
I remember her saying “What am I supposed to do? Be a waitress?!”
"She left a note that said, “I’m headed for the big time.
I’m on my way up there with James Dean and Marilyn Monroe.”" Holding a Bible in one hand and a crucifix in the other, Feldman jumped from the fourteenth floor of 51 Fifth Avenue. Feldman’s suicide preceded the release of Andy Warhol"s Heat, in which she had a much larger role than in previous Warhol films, by only three weeks.
Feldman"s performance garnered positive reviews. Judith Crist, a critic for New York magazine wrote: "The most striking performance, in large part non-performance, comes from the late Andrea Feldman, as the flat-voiced, freaked-out daughter, a mass of psychotic confusion, infantile and heart-breaking.".