Stephen Prina
Retrospection Under Duress
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
20 January - 17 February 1996
Margo Leavin Gallery presents an exhibition of work by Stephen Prina. The exhibition, titled Retrospection Under Duress, consists of three projects: a series of thirty-five photographs combined with computer graphics, a sculpture that incorporates drawing and bookbinding procedures, and the three most recent examples from the ongoing project Exquisite Corpse: The Complete Paintings of Manet.
Retrospection Under Duress marks the artist’s second one-person show at the Margo Leavin Gallery. Stephen Prina’s work was recently the subject of a one-person exhibition at the Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen in Rotterdam titled “It was the best he could do at the moment…,’ as well as solo shows at P.S. 1, New York, and the Los Angeles Municipal Gallery at Barnsdall Art Park. His work has also been included in important group exhibitions at The Art Institute of Chicago, the 8th Biennale in Sydney, The Renaissance Society in Chicago, the Aperto in the Venice Biennale XLIV, Documenta IX in Kassel, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.
Stephen Prina’s music has been featured in concerts in New York City, Los Angeles, Boston, Düsseldorf, Dijon, Athens and Helsinki. Since 1994, he has been a member of the musical group The Red Krayola, appearing on the recordings The Red Krayola, 1994, and Amor and Language, 1995, under the Drag City label, Chicago.
MARGO LEAVIN GALLERY
812 North Robertson Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90069
