Richard Misrach, Half-Beach, Half-Water. © Richard Misrach; Courtesy Pace Gallery, New York; Fraenkel, San Francisco; Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles.
Stephen Prina is an art polymath. Since the late 1970s, Prina has moved nimbly between the disciplines of painting, sculpture, photography, installation, and music. His projects reference art history, personal biography, and musical compositions that shift and change depending on the context in which they are presented. Prina often appropriates the work of other artists, exploring the post-studio afterlife of objects and recordings presented in galleries and museums, and received by critics and historians of art. Through his engagement with these works, Prina highlights the shifting nature of art’s reception and interpretation across time.
