Of course, every great artist is too clever to let himself be pigeonholed and categorized, but today, in the age of Richard
Prince car hoods, the Bruce High Quality Foundation's ambulance, Nate Lowman's hubcaps or Dan Colen's pile of Harley - Davidsons, there is no doubt that John Chamberlain's work is a reference we will find over and over again.
Not exact matches
The choice of colours was provided by the
Prince's office British Racing Green with mushroom leather trim, no contrast stitching, green carpet and dark green
hood while Riding - Felce's own intimate knowledge of
Prince Charles's DB6 saw some very personal features incorporated in to the
car's passenger compartment.
Since the mid 1970s,
Prince has incorporated preexisting material into his photographs, paintings, and sculptures, including advertisements,
car hoods, cancelled checks, and celebrity head shots.
Even if
Prince privileges the banal, such as
car hoods, he nevertheless succeeds in placing them in a state of suspension that is equally anchored in the trivial and the auratic.
- Richard
Prince The enigmatically titled, Anyone Can Find Me, 1989 — 1990, one of Richard
Prince's oblique, wall - hanging sculptural renditions of muscle
car hoods, exudes a red - blooded American machismo made strange by its refined Minimalist aesthetic.
By repainting and re-contextualizing the
car hoods he appropriates,
Prince subverts utopian ideals about the character of both geometric abstraction and the male psyche.
Might Chicago's effervescent
car hoods, which were criticized by her teachers for rejecting the tenets of hard - edged minimalism, as well as
Prince's evocations of the precarious nature of Americana, be partners in dismantling gendered or sexual norms?
While at a recent opening, Ed Ruscha mentioned to Chicago that Richard
Prince had been working on a series of
car hoods, something that Chicago had done in the 1960s.
When Duchamp submitted his notorious urinal to The Society of Independent Artists exhibition in New York in 1917, his only «artistic» involvement was to flip the urinal on its side and emblazon it with a crude signature;
Prince upends the re-painted
car hood and pins it to the wall.
Prince's new paintings, which go on view at Gladstone Gallery on 3 November («Richard
Prince: Ripple Paintings», until 22 December), are to my eye the greatest paintings he has made since he first started to paint
car hoods and jokes.