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Art Exhibition | Rick Prol, Under the Stars LAST DAY TO SEE

RICK PROL
UNDER THE STARS
May 31- June 21, 2015

Dorian Grey Gallery
437 East 9th St. NYC

Exhibition Preview: http://www.doriangreygallery.com/current.html

In this exhibition, we enter Rick Prol-world— a place where equilibrium and loss of equilibrium co-exist in exquisite (dis)harmony. Paintings and works on paper in this exhibition span a forty year period during which Prol employs certain protagonists used symbolically and as metaphor, as self-portraits and portraits of others. The works are akin to poems crafted to achieve an intentionally disjunctive narrative.

Prol’s work was first celebrated in the early 1980’s in New York’s East Village. He brought the seeds of his interests in Shakespeare’s Scottish play, Flamenco music, Martha Graham and Goya to take root in that era’s fertile and fetid punk soil.

Prol’s Dystopian vision and humor are informed in equal measures by his dream world and the “real” world. Broken totems- buckets, doors, windows, light bulbs and the like take their rightful place alongside functioning tools and methods of transport. His attacks and defenses are abstract— there are no good guys or bad guys here— only victims, victimizers and the innocent. Prol’s own Cat-O-Puss, a creature with an elusive and slippery identity, visits his paintings regularly— riding a bicycle, observing the World Trade Center aflame or soaking in a bathtub.

Prol’s work is in many private and public collections including the Smithsonian Libraries Collection, Hirschhorm Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Larry Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT Contemporary Museum of Art, Chicago, Holocaust Museum, Washington DC, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Museum of Modern Art, NYC and the Guggenheim Museum. A Retrospective of Rick Prol’s work was featured at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art in 2012.











When: Sun., Jun. 21, 2015 at All Day

RICK PROL
UNDER THE STARS
May 31- June 21, 2015

Dorian Grey Gallery
437 East 9th St. NYC

Exhibition Preview: http://www.doriangreygallery.com/current.html

In this exhibition, we enter Rick Prol-world— a place where equilibrium and loss of equilibrium co-exist in exquisite (dis)harmony. Paintings and works on paper in this exhibition span a forty year period during which Prol employs certain protagonists used symbolically and as metaphor, as self-portraits and portraits of others. The works are akin to poems crafted to achieve an intentionally disjunctive narrative.

Prol’s work was first celebrated in the early 1980’s in New York’s East Village. He brought the seeds of his interests in Shakespeare’s Scottish play, Flamenco music, Martha Graham and Goya to take root in that era’s fertile and fetid punk soil.

Prol’s Dystopian vision and humor are informed in equal measures by his dream world and the “real” world. Broken totems- buckets, doors, windows, light bulbs and the like take their rightful place alongside functioning tools and methods of transport. His attacks and defenses are abstract— there are no good guys or bad guys here— only victims, victimizers and the innocent. Prol’s own Cat-O-Puss, a creature with an elusive and slippery identity, visits his paintings regularly— riding a bicycle, observing the World Trade Center aflame or soaking in a bathtub.

Prol’s work is in many private and public collections including the Smithsonian Libraries Collection, Hirschhorm Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Larry Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT Contemporary Museum of Art, Chicago, Holocaust Museum, Washington DC, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Museum of Modern Art, NYC and the Guggenheim Museum. A Retrospective of Rick Prol’s work was featured at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art in 2012.

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