HVCCA: Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art

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SPECIAL EVENTS

Lecture with Artist Rick Prol & Collector Ari Straus

January 22, 2012, 4:00-5:00pm

In Support of the current exhibition, Circa 1986, HVCCA will host a lecture featuring artist Rick Prol and collector Ari Straus.

Rick Prol, I Have This Cat, 1985;
Acrylic on canvas, wood, and glass;
96 x 93 inches

Rick Prol was born and raised in NYC where he currently lives and works. He graduated from Cooper Union College in 1980 and began showing his work publicly in 1982 – during the then burgeoning East Village art scene. Prol was also studio assistant to painter Jean-Michel Basquiat. “The East Village Art scene of the ‘80s thrived on the romance of slumming in an era of widespread economic prosperity. Rick Prol was one of the icons of that era, known for his cartoonish tableaux of mayhem, murder and suicide set in a rat-infested fantasy world somewhere East of First Avenue.” July 1993, Art in America, Eleanor Heartney, via RickProl.com.

Ari Straus was a young collector during the 1980s and the son of two collectors. Straus was excited by the cartoonish aesthetic employed by ‘80s artists. Even at a young age, as an avid comic book reader, Straus appreciated the bridge between “High” and “Low” art, which emerged during this period. Ari is currently CEO of Monticello Motor Club, a private race car establishment for automotive enthusiasts located 90 minutes north of NYC.

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