Stephen Prina at Spruth Magers Gallery

Stephen Prina is a key figure, a star in the constellation of second generation Conceptual artists to emerge from Cal Arts and the tutelage of Michael Asher. Well-read, erudite, able to operate in the realm of performance, music, sculpture and publications, Prina has exhibited at prestigious galleries and museums world wide. Now a professor at Harvard, he might be the last person I would think of to make art about his hometown of Galesburg, Illinois. Yet, that is precisely the subject of his show at Spruth Magers Gallery in the mid-Wilshire district, across from LACMA.

Stephen Prina Harbor Lights Supper Club, Galesburg, Illinois, 1947-1986, former site, 2015 Photography: Foley Photo Studio, Galesburg, Illinois, 2016 Digital print on vinyl banner 153 5/8 x 286 3/8 x 2 inches Installation view, Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles, May 12 - August 11, 2018 Photo: Robert Wedemeyer

Stephen Prina Blind No. 28, Twenty-five-foot Ceiling or Lower, PANTONE® 7666CP/PANTONE® 7666CP, PANTONE® 7666CP/PANTONE® 5405CP, PANTONE® 625CP/PANTONE® 5757CP, 2015 Acrylic on linen, window blind mechanism, Rookwood Pottery 1920, Festzelgarnitur, fabric Dimensions variable Photo: Robert Wedemeyer

Stephen Prina galesburg, illinois+ Arnold Newman Marilyn Monroe and Carl Sandburg, Beverly Hills California, January 20, 1962, 2015 Gelatin Silver print, unsigned, state stamped, fabric, wood 25 3/8 x 29 3/4 inches (framed)

Stephen Prina galesburg, illinois+ Dorothea Tanning Born: August 25, 1910, Galesburg, Illinois Died: January 31, 2012, New York, New York Xmas B, 1969 Fabric, metal, and wool Los Angeles County Museum of Art Purchased with funds provided by the 2010 Collectors Committee, with additional funds generously provided by Jodie Evans with Lekha Singh, The Rosenthal Family Foundation, Peg Yorkin, the Kayne Foundation, Susan Adelman in honor of the artist’s 100th birthday, Irene Christopher, Viveca Paulin-Ferrell, American Art Deaccession Funds, Janice G. Gootkin, The Eileen F. and Mort H. Singer, Jr. Family fund in honor of Ilene Susan Fort, and J. Patrice Marandel (M.2010.36a-b), 2015 Photography: Fredrik Nilsen Studio, Los Angeles, California, 2015 Digital print on sattlerplane Four works, each: 77 x 29 1/3 inches (detail)

Stephen Prina Exquisite Corpse: The Complete Paintings of Manet 248 of 556 Parisienne (Robe à Traine) Parisienne (Dress with a Train) 1875? Nationalmuseum, Stockholm July 18, 2015 + PUSH COMES TO LOVE, Untitled 1999-2016 Ink wash on rag, barrier paper and offset lithography on paper Left: 75.98 x 49.21 inches (framed) Right: 25.98 x 32.68 inches (framed)

through August 11.