Opening reception: Thursday, November 6, 6–8pm
Richard Prince
Untitled (Folk Songs), 2022
Acrylic, inkjet, and collage on canvas, 59 × 44 inches (149.7 × 111.8 cm)
© Richard Prince. Photo: Jena Cumbo Photography
Richard Prince
Untitled (Folk Songs), 2023
Inkjet, collage, gel medium, oil stick, and acrylic on canvas, 72 × 72 inches (182.9 × 182.9 cm)
© Richard Prince. Photo: Jena Cumbo Photography
Acrylic, oil stick, inkjet, and collage on canvas, 59 × 58 inches (149.9 × 147.3 cm)
© Richard Prince. Photo: Jena Cumbo Photography
Gagosian is pleased to announce Folk Songs, a presentation of never-before-seen recent work by Richard Prince. The exhibition will open on Thursday, November 6, at the gallery’s 555 West 24th Street location in New York.
Simple handmade paintings, drawings, and collages dating from 2018 to 2023 and five sculptures dating from 2007 to 2025. No magic. No mystery. No magical mystery tours. Hobo smokestack buckteeth and scarred upper lips exhaling chimney clouds of Lucky Strikes drifting over broken-down houses sitting in fields of exaggerated flowers, thousand-yard stares, cardboard caskets, and Mt. Rushmore weeds.
No digital drips. No immersive wallpaper. And no award-winning lifestyles.
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about this exhibition
Sydney Stutterheim traces the linkages and affinities between the work of Richard Prince and that of Bob Dylan. Using Prince’s Untitled (Dylan) as a starting point, she considers the artist’s enduring interest in questions of originality and authorship, as well as his sustained relationship with the worlds of American music and counterculture.
The second installment of Picture Books, an imprint organized by Emma Cline and Gagosian, presents author Percival Everett’s novella Grand Canyon, Inc. alongside Untitled (Original Cowboy), a photograph by Richard Prince. In celebration of the publication, Everett met with author Brandon Taylor to discuss the novella, the role of history in the writing process, and the similarity in methodologies for science and literature.
On the occasion of the publication of Richard Prince: Cowboy, a major monograph on the artist’s preoccupation with the mythic American West, Lucy Sante tracks the archetype through mass media, advertising, and the art of Richard Prince to illuminate the cowboy’s enduring appeal.
The Summer 2020 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, featuring Joan Jonas’s Mirror Piece 1 (1969) on its cover.
Natasha Stagg on influencers, the loss of the it-girl, and the “promotional life.”
The Spring 2020 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, featuring Cindy Sherman’s Untitled #412 (2003) on its cover.
James Lawrence explores how contemporary artists have grappled with the subject of the library.
Jenny Saville reveals the process behind her new self-portrait, painted in response to Rembrandt’s masterpiece Self-Portrait with Two Circles.
Text by Richard Hell.
