Covering Pollock (program)

For this Guild Hall Museum exhibition, Prince created works that literally cover photographs of Jackson Pollock with paint, creating a confrontation between appropriation photography and Abstract Expressionism. The program features a conversation between Prince and curator Lisa Phillips discussing the works' relationship to Pollock's legacy, the East Hampton art scene where both artists worked, and Prince's ongoing interrogation of authorship and art historical canon. The project connects Prince's appropriation strategies to Abstract Expressionism's gestural spontaneity while asserting his own painterly presence over documentary photography.