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Jonathan Prince Makes His Mark on Madison Avenue with New Body of Work “States of Matter”
Feb 10, 2012
Known for his work in African and Cambrian black granite, Prince has, over the past two years, broadened his visual inquiry through a vanguard technique of “tearing steel”.
James Balestrieri wrote: ” The contrast between the outer, oxidized surfaces, and the tears – areas of highly polished new steel – indicate the passage of time, neglect, forgetting. This is the Stonehenge of and advance civilization… Yet, strange to say, it’s the oxidization, the rust, if you will, that keeps the works for feeling unapproachable.
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