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FORREST PRINCE (American/Texas 1935-2020) A SCULPTURE, "People Who Eat Animals Never Have Peace," 20TH/21ST CENTURY,
mixed media with metal, plastic, and ceramic. Height: 16" Width: 12" Depth: 12"

  • Provenance: Collection of Susan Toomey Frost, San Antonio, Texas.
  • Notes: The work of Prince, a deeply spiritual and political self-taught artist born in 1935, is ubiquitous throughout Houston in its institutions' collections as well as private collections. A Houston native, Prince began making art in his 30s, in 1969. He had already led a tough life. Houston's Station Museum of Contemporary Art, on the occasion of a solo show of his work there in 2012, writes: "Forrest Prince is an artist who lives his life and creates his art in the spirit of Jesus. His trials in overcoming drug addiction, crime, and prison as well as his new life of self-imposed poverty and his compassionate support of people in dire need, have given him the knowledge and the inner strength to make authentically spiritual works of art." n 1976, when the Station Museum's founder, James Harithas, was the director of Houston's Contemporary Arts Museum, he gave Prince a solo exhibition, which, as Gershon writes, cemented "…Prince's place in the hierarchy of Houston artists … [Harithas] placed him on equal footing with such top-tier Texans as John Alexander, James Surls, and Dick Wray." He went on to exhibit at various other institutions in Houston, and his piece The Greatest of All is Love, a large, mirrored heart inscribed with the word ‘love,' was acquired by the Menil Collection in 2005 thanks to a gift from Houston-based collector Bill Hill. Prince was the recipient of of Art League Houston's 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award in the Visual Arts. In an essay that accompanied the award, art historian and curator Susie Kalil stresses Prince's lack of interest in the money, glamor, and trappings of the art world. In his art, Prince never pulled any punches; he wanted his viewer to be confronted with the message — his message — about what they were seeing. Largely political, his work addressed everything from socioeconomic inequality, to the failure of institutions, to larger concepts of greed, corruption, and America's many other shortcomings. His materials were largely found, and his works were typically assembled from disparate pieces. Particularly of note are his artworks made from mirrors — sometimes etched, often mosaicked — in which he turned his audience back onto themselves. These pieces in particular make his viewers viscerally aware of their complacency within the systems he critiqued. Though his art was never without humor, it was also biting and raw, and challenged anything that came within its crosshairs. Source: Glasstire.com
  • Condition: There is some minor handling but no visible signs of damage.

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