Richard Prince: Posters Exhibition @ Galerie Max Hetzler, Marfa, Texas

Richard Prince: Posters

Galerie Max Hetzler, Marfa, Texas

Through 7 December 2025

Richard Prince 

Untitled, 2016 

Courtesy of Richard Prince Studio

Hetzler presents Posters, a solo exhibition of works by Richard Prince, for the gallery’s annual presentation in Marfa, Texas, through December 7, 2025.

One of the foremost representatives of appropriation art, Richard Prince has been recontextualising images and ideas from mass media, advertising and entertainment since the 1970s. Often based on products of everyday American culture, his practice is one of ‘post-production’, which reworks cultural phenomena and their attributes to rewrite received narratives and our understanding of history.

The present exhibition brings together a large body of Richard Prince’s Poster works on canvas and on paper, created between 2014 and 2024. The large canvases show reproductions of advertisements for mail-order posters, as were often found at the back of magazines in the second half of the 20th century. Hugely popular at the time, these printed images represent touchstones of early counter-cultural magazines, which are among Richard Prince’s long-term interests. The motifs of political slogans and far-out art in the form of cheap posters are singled out and chosen by the artist. They find their origins in the hippie head-shop culture of the late ’60s, which also encompassed magazines, music and comedy records. Taped-off and blocked-out from the pages where they were listed, the images have been blown up so that the resulting works are far larger than the original posters.

In their seemingly arbitrary selection, the poster images combine anti-war slogans, reproductions of Modern art, graphic-design interpretations of nude couples, and pictures of cats in sometimes humorously disparate compilations. The revolutionary attitude of the late ’60s student protests is juxtaposed against the self-indulgence of hippie culture in this side-by-side illustration of popular visual language.

If cultural attitudes are transported through everyday imagery, then  Richard Prince makes them transparent by applying the focus of his artistic practice to these source materials. Method and implication are translated into different contexts and, with his meticulous attention to detail, the artist decodes the communication of contemporary visual language and the ideas which are concealed within it.

Artist Richard Prince

Richard Prince (b. 1949, Panama Canal Zone) lives and works in Upstate New York. Prince’s work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions in international institutions, including Georgia Museum of Art, Athens (2024); Louisiana Museum of Art, Humblebaek; The Karpidas Collection (both 2022–2023); Museum for Modern Art, Weserburg (2021); Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (2019–2020); Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires Malba; Espace Louis Vuitton, Beijing; Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo (all 2018); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2017–2018); Kunsthaus Bregenz (2014); Picasso Museum, Malaga (2012); Le Consortium, Dijon (2011); Serpentine Gallery, London; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (both 2008); Guggenheim Museum, New York (2007–2008); Kunsthalle Zürich (2002); Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel (2001); and MAK, Vienna (2000), among others. The artist participated in the Venice Biennale in 2007 and 2003, as well as the Whitney Biennial in 2004, 1997, 1987 and 1985.

Works by Richard Prince are in the collections of international museums including the Art Institute of Chicago; Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo; The Broad, Los Angeles; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston; Kunstmuseum Basel; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Palazzo Grassi, Pinault Collection, Venice; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Tate, London; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.

GALERIE MAX HETZLER

1976 Antelope Hills Road, Marfa, Texas

www.maxhetzler.com

Richard Prince: Posters

Galerie Max Hetzler, Marfa, Texas, 17 May – 7 December 2025

Charlotte Lichtblau at The 8th Floor Space, NYC (Chelsea)

CHARLOTTE LICHTBLAU: A World of Its Own
Art exhibition @ The 8th Floor Space, NYC (Chelsea)
October 23 - 31, 2010

Charlotte Lichtblau: Trisselwand (1963)
oil on canvas
Courtesy of the artist and The 8th Floor Space, NYC

 

Painter Charlotte Lichtblau will have an exhibition of her paintings and drawings, beginning October 23, 2010 at the 8th Floor Space, a private gallery located at 17 West 17th Street.  The show, entitled A WORLD OF ITS OWN, runs through October 31st. 

Charlotte Lichtblau has painted the mountains, lakes and countryside in and around Altaussee, Austria, for more than seven decades.  Her range of work includes landscapes, fantasias, mythic figures, and biblical scenes transported to this remarkable world.  Over 60 works in oil, ink, watercolor, and mixed media are included in this retrospective of a major American and international artist.

CHARLOTTE LICHTBLAU BIOGRAPHY

Born in Vienna in 1925, Charlotte Lichtblau came to the United States in 1940 with her parents and sister. Since 1950, she has returned repeatedly to Austria, primarily to Vienna and to her childhood summer home in Altaussee, in Austria’s Salzkammergut region.

For the past five decades, Lichtblau has exhibited her works in galleries, museums, universities, and churches in New York City and throughout the United States. She has had two major career retrospective exhibitions in Austria, one at the Palais Palffy in Vienna (1994) and the second in the Pfarrheim Arts Center in Bad Aussee, near Altaussee (2002).

For the artist, the discipline of painting is a way of exploring, expressing and communicating the passion of human existence. A significant portion of her work is focused on biblical themes, most notably the Passion of Christ.  Here, the visual transformation into imagery addresses familiar religious themes internally and directly. While her paintings of religious subjects are boldly contemporary, they honor both the history of ecclesiastical imagery and the artistic traditions of German Expressionist painting.

A planned career retrospective in 2000 led to the publication of Origin and Transformation: Life and Art of the Painter Charlotte Lichtblau by Albert Lichtblau, who is no relation to the artist. Her drawings were published in Fr. Patrick Ryan’s books When I Survey The Wondrous Cross: Scriptural Reflections for Lent (1989) and The Coming of Our God: Scriptural Reflections for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany (1999). For more than four years, her drawings were published weekly in America Magazine.

Lichtblau was an art critic, as well, writing for The Philadelphia Inquirer, New York Herald Tribune, Arts Magazine, and other publications. Her collected reviews and other papers are archived at the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art.

This exhibition, A WORLD OF ITS OWN, is curated by Bruce Payne. 

Charlotte Lichtblau’s work is represented in museums and private collections across the United States and Europe.

www.charlottelichtblau.com

The 8th Floor Space
17 West 17th Street, 8th Floor
New York NY 10011

Opening Reception: Saturday, October 23, 2-6 pm

Admission daily from 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM by appointment. 

Lise Sarfati Exhibition in Italy

LISE SARFATI Immaculate Mother & Daughter The New Life From 7th September to 19th October 2008 Tuesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday 10.30 am – 7.30 pm Wednesday and Thursday 10.30 am – 9.00 pm Monday 3.30 pm – 7.30 pm Galleria Carla Sozzani corso Como 10 – 20154 Milano, Italia www.galleriacarlasozzani.org

For her first solo exhibition in Italy the French photographer Lise Sarfati has worked on a special selection of photographs from The New Life serie (2003) and reveals her two most recent series, never shown before: Immaculate and Mother & Daughter (2005-2007). The show is built in three parts corresponding to the three series to appreciate the full extent and significance of her work. The New Life has already been exhibited in museums and galleries all over the world (Yossi Milo Gallery in New York, Rose Gallery in Los Angeles, museum Foam in Amsterdam, Nicolaj Center of Contemporary Art in Copenhagen, Arles in France, Photographer’s gallery in London and Domus Artium Centro del Arte in Salamanca in Spain… )

The New Life (2003) - In the serie of color photographs taken through United States -from Austin to Asheville, Portland to Berkeley, Oakland, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Louisiana and small towns in Georgia- each portrait dramatizes the complexity of adolescent identity showing an intensity that adults will never be able to experience again. Lise Sarfati explores the dividing lines between good and bad, happiness and sadness, innocence and perversity, reality and fantasy. With a minimal choregraphy, she activates connections with her subjects in their everyday spaces and situations – bedrooms, backyards, kitchens, grocery stores. The title The New Life refers to Dante Aligheri and Beatrice Portinari, who were children when they met in 1274 in Firenze "She died and La Vita Nuova is a poem of love for Beatrice, with whom he was in love all his life" - A book has been published La Vie Nouvelle The New Life -Twin Palms publisher, 2005.

Immaculate (2006-2007) - The serie Immaculate took place in California, inside Catholic educational establishments for girls. The different high schools have been carefully chosen by the artist. She looked for places surrounded by the ‘Garden of Eden’ and she found it in Monterey, Sierra Madre, Alhambra and San Diego. The student girls photographed have decided of their attitude and expression. They are still in the garden of the school, just before returning home. The idea of “the fence” is central in this serie, referring to the enclosed garden of Middle Age. Lise Sarfati breaks the idyllic vision, when she captured the adolescent girls giving way to herself on the lawn of their school. Book published by Schirmer Mosel in Spring 2009, text by Thomas Weski.

Mother & Daughter (2005-2007) - In the serie Mother & Daughter, Los Angeles, Berkeley and Oakland in California are the main places chosen by the artist. The central subject is the role game that takes a real importance between parents and children, and even more between a mother and her daughter. The characters become interchangeable and their relation reinforce the mirror effect. The imaginative realm of the mother is embodied in the daughter and the girl's ideal is played out by her mother. Throughout the serie, Mother & Daughter were photographed separately, to underline the personality split. The disturbing play of competition between the two brings exhibitionism to its apotheosis. It refers to the use of masks – makeup, wigs – underscoring the loss of bearings. The outcome is a kind of tension between the mask-reflections and the exhibitionism of the two women.

Grew up in France, she lives in Paris. She obtained a master’s degree in Russian studies from the Sorbonne. She was the official photographer of the Academy des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Sarfati moved to Russia and photographed there for ten years. She received grants from both the Fiacre and Villa Medicis. She received the Prix Niepce in Paris and the Infinity award of International Center of Photography in New York for her work. For over five years now, she has been working in the United States. Lise Sarfati is represented by Yossi Milo Gallery in New York, Rose Gallery in Los Angeles and Magnum Gallery in Paris.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2008 Russian Series Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, USA . American Trilogy Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan, Italy. The New Life, Centre National de l’Audiovisuel, Dudelange, Luxembourg The New Life, Center of Comtaporary Art « Vinzavod » for the Seventh International Month of Photography “Photobiennale’’ Moscow, Russia, 2007 The New Life, FOAM Amsterdam, The New Life, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland, 2006 The New Life, UC Riverside California Museum of Photography, USA, La Vie Nouvelle, Rencontres Internationales d’Arles, France, The New Life, Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA, Retrospective Nicolaj Center of Contemprary Art, Kopenhagen, Dannemark 2005 The New Life Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, USA, La Vie Nouvelle, Museo de San Telmo ,San Sebastien, Spain, American series, The Photographer’s gallery London, UK, 2004 Retrospective, Russian series, The New Life, Domus Artium Centro del Arte Salamanca, Spain 2002 Russian Series, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France, Post Factum, Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France 1997 Musée Nicephore Niepce, Prix Niepce, Chalon-sur-Saone, France, 1996 Prix Niepce, Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, France

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION 2007 Easy Rider, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, USA. June Bride, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, USA. Women of Many Faces, Isabelle Huppert. Fotomuseum Der Haag, The Netherlands. Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Turin, Italy. Euro Visions, Musée Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles, Belgique, 2006 Women of Many Faces, Isabelle Huppert. PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Museum of Modern Art, Long Island City, Gallery C/O Berlin, Germany. Botanic Garden, Madrid, Spain. Metropolitan Museum of Photography,Tokyo, Japan. Couvent des Cordeliers, Paris, France. Euro Visions, Milan, Italie, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hunagry, Zamec, Warsaw, Poland. 2005 Euro Visions, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.

COLLECTIONS SFMOMA San Francisco of Modern Art, CA, USA Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, France LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA, USA Collection Michael Wilson, London, UK Brooklyn Museum, NY, USA Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France Bouwfonds Kunststichting, Netherlands Fond National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France Domus Artium, Salamanca, Spain Fondation ABN AMRO pour la Photographie, Paris, France Musée Nicephore Niepce, Chalon-sur-Saone, France Fondation Enrique ORDÓÑEZ, Spain Lhoist, Belgium

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 2008 Monography with Schirmer Mosel 2005 The New Life La Vie Nouvelle, Lise Sarfati Twin Palms Publisher 2004 Lise Sarfati, Fundacion Salamanca Cuidad de Cultura 2000 Acta Est, Lise Sarfati Phaidon