RICK PROL
Waiting, Circa early 1990s
acrylic, pastel on paper, mounted to wood
17 x 14 in
43.2 x 35.6 cm
Waiting, Circa early 1990s
acrylic, pastel on paper, mounted to wood
17 x 14 in
43.2 x 35.6 cm
Waiting, Circa early 1990s
acrylic, pastel on paper, mounted to wood
17 x 14 in
43.2 x 35.6 cm
Rick Prol was born and raised in NYC where he currently loves abd works. He attended Cooper Union College graduating in 1980 and began exhibiting his work publicly in 1982 - during the then burgeoning East Village Art Scene. "The East Village art scene of the 80s thrived on the romance of slumming in an era of widespread economic prosperity.Rick Prol was an icon of that era, known for his cartoonish tanleaux of mayhem, murder and suicide set in a rat-infested world somewhere east of First Avenue," - Eleanor Heartney, July 1993 Art in America.
Prol's work exemplified and helped define with "anarchical impudence" the more dangerous and harrowing aspects of urban reality with images both horrific and absurd and also with a touch of humor.
Rick Prol recently had a solo shows at the Leeahn Gallery in Seoul and Daegue, South Korea and at the James Fuentes Gallery, NYC.