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Rick Prol is an artist who's painting and state of mind are the true essence of New York's East Village. That is raw, funky, and neo-Bohemian. Painting long, unnerving figures resembling creative in shocking, bold colors, gives the viewer an inside look at the dark side of New York -- that of terror and violence. Even Prol's pastels see resonance's of art history emerge. Prol's fascination with violence, definitely a 20th century genre subject has, in fact, 20th century roots, as seen in such work as 'Daumier's Rue Transnonain'.Although Prol's style may be more shocking and bold to the non-New Yorker, it unmistakably always delivers a populist primitiveness that 'easy-viewing' art work simply cannot. Prol's work is more interested and always successful in satisfying our need to understand the 'not always nice, but true to life' message projected in his art work.

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  • Museum of Modern Art, NYC
  • Guggenheim Museum, NYC
  • Contemporary Museum of Art, Chicago, IL
  • Larry Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
  • Holocaust Museum, Washington, DC
  • Ackland Art Museum, The University of
  • North Carolina
  • Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
  • Numerous Private & Corporate

Education:

  • Cooper Union, B.F.A., New York
  • New York Studio School, NY
  • Joffery Ballet Scholarship Program , NY

Select Exerts:

1984

"Neo Expressionists", Larry Aldrich Museum, CT
"East Village Art", Virginia Art Museum, Richmond, VA  
4 New York Painters", with Julian Schnabel,
Keith Haring, Rick Prol, Piere Cuvelier, Toulouse, France
Summer in New York", Barbara Farber Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland

1985
The Living Art Museum, Reykjavick, Iceland
"Benefit for gay Rights", Sotheby's, NYC
"Major Works", Hal Bromm Gallery, NYC
"57th Between A&D Holly Solomon Gallery, NYC
"Collaboration Murals", With Crash, Daze, Ronnie Cutrone, Rick Prol
"40 Artists on Billboards", the Streets of Paris, Paris, France
"Summer Group Show", Tony Shafrazi Gallery, NYC

1986
"Zurich Art Fair", Barbara Farber Gallery & Hal Bromm Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
"East Village & Japanese Artists, Vivant Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"Chicago Art Fair", Hal Bromm Gallery, Chicago, IL

1987
Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL
Saint Marks Gallery, NYC

1989
"Painters at the End of a Decade", Sally Hawkins Gallery, NYC

1991
"Sculpture", Vacuum Gallery, NYC

1993
Held one person exhibition. Kaj Forsblom Gallery, Helsinki, Finland 
Frank Bustamante Gallery, NYC

1995
"Page 17", Curator Garry Peterson, 450 Broadway Gallery, NYC 
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, NYC

1996 
 Andrew Kreps Gallery NYC

1997
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York
"The Web Gallery/Tribeca" Web Gallery, NYC

1999
"Deja Jadis" 20th Anniversary (1979-1999) Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2000
"Art As Not" Gregg Smith Colllection, St Louis, MO



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