Denise
Prince has had critical success and both the commercial and academic art
worlds. Anne Wilkes Tucker, Curator at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston of
Prince's photography (in their collection,) "No one is making work
like this." Ardent support also comes from master photographer Joel-Peter
Witkin. Tractatus 7 is an extension,
a public and cultural version of a clinical and private study, by Prince and
Charles Merward of the logic of fantasy. Merward, a philosopher and practicing
psychoanalyst, attributes that “Being able to make explicit the concepts and
commitments implicit in the fantasy of our everyday reality is a continuation
of the Enlightenment.”
Across the disciplines of film, photography, painting and object making, Prince’s
work employs the commercial language of advertising to make explicit what is
real or deftly, its counterpoint, fantasy. The lush styling and singular
locations in Prince’s constructed portraits are augmented by wit and make clear
the pleasure with which she constructs narratives and then carefully disrupts
them. The concept is essential to the nature of photography. "Caught in a
state of permanent suspense vis a vis events that have just happened or are
about to take place, photographs contain essential seeds of narratives that can
never come to fruition except in the imagination." Lucy Soutter
Prince’s
feature, the Deep End, produced by
independent film producer Cary Woods (Scream,
Kids, Swingers, Gummo) was released at the Anthology Film Archive in New York
City.
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
Kopeikin Gallery, Women's Work, Los
Angeles, California PBS Television, Tractatus 7
featured in Coming Back Apama Mackey Gallery, Solo exhibition, Houston, Texas
Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, TX
Women and Their Work, Object Lessons, Solo exhibition, Austin, Texas
International Zizek Studies Conference, Parallax Future(s) in Art,
Design Ideology, and Philosophy, Cincinnati, Ohio The Contemporary Austin, Art of Narrative Portraiture, Austin, Texas
Arcaute Arte Contemporaneo, Los
Americanos, Monterrey, Mexico Wally Workman Gallery, Saatchi Art's Western Reflections, Austin, Texas Effearte Gallery, Solo exhibition and performance, Beyond This Thing Between Us, Milan, Italy
Barbarian Art Gallery, BAZAR, Zurich, Switzerland
E8 Galeria, E8 Colectiva, Madrid,
Spain
KLRU interview for Arts in Context, A
Light in the Dark (click on episode title to view)
The University of Texas at Austin, Presentation to University Fashion
Group | Textile and Apparel Design, Austin, Texas
Museum of Fine Art Houston, Photograph from Tractatus 7 in the permanent collection, Houston, Texas
Barbarian Gallery, ART MOSCOW, Moscow, Russia New York Photo Festival,
Provocation, New
York, New York
CentralTrak, That Moral Coil;
Rebuking the Ideal in Contemporary Figurative Art, Dallas, Texas
Festival de Cine Internacional de
Barcelona,
Barcelona, Spain
San Francisco Short Film Festival,
San Francisco, California
International ARTEXPO - Essence / Borders, Istanbul, Turkey
Municipal Shadow performance,
Marfa, Texas
Bridge Art Fair, Intimate Distance -
Soldier/Adulterer performance, Miami, Florida
Albuquerque Museum of Art & History, Biennial
Southwest, Albuquerque, New
Mexico; juror Neal Benezra, Director, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San
Francisco, California
Wright State University, Photography Now: One Hundred
Portfolios, Dayton,
Ohio
Galleri Urbane, Me, Myself and
Everybody Else, Marfa, Texas
New American Talent:
The Twentieth Exhibition, Arthouse at the Jones Center; traveling
exhibition originating in Austin, Texas; juror Dan Cameron
New American Talent: The
Nineteenth Exhibition, Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, Texas; juror Jerry
Saltz
Anthology Film Archive, The Deep End, New York, New York
Public art installation, Good for Amusement
Only, Los Angeles, California
Parker Zanic Gallery, Speaker Death,
Los Angeles, California
Bliss Gallery, The Significance of
Bricolage, Pasadena, California
EDUCATION California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
School of Visual Arts, New York, New York
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture BIBLIOGRAPHY / MEDIA
Picnic Magazine Issue #3,
Tel Aviv, Israel Visual
ARTBEAT Magazine, Salzburg, Austria
Las Bases del Coleccionismo, Taxi Magazine Issue 3,
Guadalajara, Mexico The Tausk Group: Art, Analysis, Intervention, Origins Magazine Love and Hate padres e hijos, Duende Magazine, Madrid,
Spain Irreversible Magazine an International
Art Project The
Language of Reality: An Interview with Photographer Denise Prince in
Canvas, Saatchi Art blog
Interview in Boulevard
Quarterly
Bodies, Models, Sex and
Death: That Mortal Coil at CentralTrak,
D Magazine, May 2013, Dallas, Texas
The Artist’s Way,
L Style G Style,
Austin, Texas
A Heightened State: Drash Pit, Eye Openers
I Shutter To Think: A Group Portrait of
Austin's Photography Scene By Six of its Rising Stars, The Austin Chronicle volume 30,
number 38
A Tale of Two Bridges,
ARTINFO, Miami, Florida
Downtown television program, KLRU
“Things I Never Told You: The Photographs of Denise Prince, catalog
accompanying show at Women and Their Work
Inner Worlds We Inhabit, Austin Chronicle, Austin, Texas
Biennial Southwest catalogue, Albuquerque Museum of Art, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Oh, Give Me a Home, The Austin Chronicle, Austin, Texas
Wonder Women, bRILLIANT Magazine, Austin, Texas
A Piece of Work, Austin Chronicle
Filmmaker Magazine
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