Richard Prince

The Author

1976
Author’s Note postcards
Offset screen print on cardstock, 8 1/2 x 11 inches
Signed “Prince” in pencil (recto) and inscribed in ink on verso by Prince
Collection Glenn Horowitz

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Richard Prince lives and works in upstate New York

“Richard Prince was born in 1949 in the Panama Canal Zone. In the mid-1970s, Prince developed a radical art-making practice based on mining images from mass media, advertising and entertainment that has redefined the concepts of authorship and ownership. Applying his understanding of the complex transactions of representation to the making of art, he has evolved a unique signature that is filled with the echoes of other signatures, but is uniquely his own.

The exhibition, Richard Prince: The Author, focuses on the artist’s early text-based work and its development in various incarnations and combinations, including work from the late 1980s and new pieces from 2011. The show includes his ‘TV Listings’ series from 1989-1993, a body of work exhibited here for the first time. Prince bought pre-stretched canvas at a store to create these silkscreen paintings, which are a marriage between his joke paintings and the listings he would pick from TV guides, primarily the 4:00pm or 6:00pm programs.

Also on display are less known early text-based works from 1976-77 such as Bomb Dream Enameled from 1976, whose title plays on Duchamp’s ‘Apollinaire Enameled.’ The book consists of pithy sentences describing the whereabouts of members of the Parisian avant-garde during WWI, such as ‘Braque is a second lieutenant,’ which Prince first typed and then hand wrote again above. Another early work is Untitled (Statement for Press Release) from 1976, a typewritten text written by Prince for one of his first solo shows in New York City, a show where he crossed the threshold from an artist working in the tradition of conceptual art to a new tradition, which he, along with other artists of his generation of picture takers, borrowers, mimickers and stealers would help invent.”

– Glenn Horowitz

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Raphael Rubinstein is a New York-based poet and art critic whose numerous books include
Poetry: A Geniza 2015, (Granary Books), The Afterglow of Minor Pop Masterpieces 2007, (Make Now), The Cry of Unbalance, with Trevor Winkfield, (The Song Cave), Postcards from Alphaville, 1999, (Hard Press), The Basement of Cafe Rilke, 1996 (Hard Press); Art Criticism: The Miraculous, 2014 (Paper Monument), Shirley Jaffe: Les formes de la dislocation Raphael Rubinstein, 2014, (FLAMMARION), En quête de miracle, 2004, (Editions Greges), his edited anthology Critical Mess: Art Critics on the State of their Practice, 2006, (Hard Press Editions), Polychrome Profusion: Selected Art Criticism 1990-2002 (Hard Press Editions),and Peintures croisées, 1999, (Editions L'Harmattan). From 1997 to 2007 Raphael was a senior editor at Art in America, where he continues to be a contributing editor. He is currently Editor-at-large for the Brooklyn Rail and is a Professor of Critical Studies at the University of Houston Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts. In 2002, the French government presented him with the award of Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters. In 2010, his blog The Silo won a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. The Silo is conceived as a personal, revisionist "dictionary" of contemporary art. Its primary aims are to challenge existing exclusionary accounts of art since 1960 and to offer a fresh look at some canonical artists.
Heather (Bause) Rubinstein is a Professor of Painting, Art History and Design. Originally from Englewood, New Jersey, she was raised in Houston, TX, were she earned both her BFA and MFA in Painting and Art History from the University of Houston. Her exhibitions include, among others, "The Miraculous: Houston", a public text-based art installation across the entire 600-acre campus at the University of Houston; "Hard Tension/Soft Surface" at Projects Gallery; "The Stanford-Binet" at Darke Gallery Houston and the installation, "If you sprinkle" at Art League Houston. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at McClain Gallery, Devin Borden Gallery, Zoya Tommy Gallery, Gallery Homeland, the Blaffer Museum, Clarke and Associates, Galleri Urbane of Dallas, the Diary in Colorado, the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Greece, Pierogi Gallery, Site Brooklyn and MANA Contemporary in NYC. She divides her time between upstate Pennsylvania, Houston and New York City.