October 21 - January 29, 2023
From the Karpidas Collection:
“The Karpidas Collection announces an exhibition of works by artist Richard Prince to open in its Design District gallery space on October 21, 2022. The exhibition, Richard Prince: Selections from The Karpidas Collection, features over 40 artworks by Richard Prince (American, b. 1949), one of the most acclaimed and influential artists of his generation. Richard Prince marks the first major solo exhibition of the artist’s work in the state of Texas. Pauline Karpidas began collecting artworks by Richard Prince in the 1990s and has continued to add important pieces to her holdings over three decades, amassing one of the most comprehensive known collections of Prince’s work. Organized in collaboration with the artist, the nearly retrospective exhibition of these artworks spans almost 40 years of Prince’s oeuvre, from the iconic Marlboro cowboys to the infamous Instagram portraits. Richard Prince’s career as an artist took off in 1977, when he snapped photographs of advertising photos featuring luxury living room furniture and printed them devoid of any ad copy or context, giving new meaning to the generic images and rendering them original works of art. This creative act changed the trajectory of contemporary artistic practice, expanding and thereby redefining the concept of authorship and securing Prince’s legacy as a pioneering appropriation artist. A leading voice of the Pictures Generation, Prince continued to push the boundaries of art over the next four decades with important series including the Cowboys, stripped down rephotographs (as Prince calls them) of Marlboro Man ads that deconstruct myths of white American masculinity and hero archetypes; the Girlfriends, grouped images (“gangs”) of “biker chicks” reproduced from motorcycle magazines—Prince’s first exploration of countercultures; the Jokes, his longest running body of work, in which Prince isolates one- liners and mid-century gag cartoons from their original contexts, laying bare the pervasive stereotypes and prejudices underlying mainstream humor; the Nurse paintings, taken from racy pulp romance covers, which present a powerful counterpoint to the iconography of the Cowboys; and the New Portraits, in which Prince enlarges screenshots of influencer and celebrity Instagram posts juxtaposed with his own non sequitur comments. Strong examples”
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