Richard Prince
Through processes of appropriation, Richard Prince explores the distinctive iconography of modern America. Surveying the cultural landscape with a gaze that is both searching and oddly inscrutable, he draws influence from the worlds of entertainment, branding and advertising. From cowboys to motorcycles, he works with a readymade pictorial mythology, displaying an instinctive understanding of pop cultural and sub-cultural imagery.
Richard Prince's work in cast resin and fibreglass transforms the readymade iconography of modern America into tangible, three-dimensional form. Through appropriation, he draws from the visual language of advertising, entertainment, and subculture, recontextualising familiar imagery to expose the myths embedded in popular consciousness. The choice of industrial materials echoes his fascination with mass production and the manufactured nature of cultural identity.
- Medium
- cast resin, fibreglass
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
Contemporary Art Evening Sale
June 29, 2015
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