"Loud Song was self-recorded in 1985 in Venice California. My band at the time, Him, played once in 1980 at Jenny Holzer’s loft at one of her 'band parties.' By the time I had recorded Loud Song in 1985 I had reduced the members of Him to one. By 1986 I reduced the only remaining member to no one." - Richard Prince
303inprint is proud to present Richard Prince's new vinyl record Loud Song at the 2016 edition of the Los Angeles Art Book Fair. The record will be released as a signed limited edition of 250 copies, with a folded poster and cover art by Kim Gordon. The project room will also feature new cowboy band paintings by Prince, alongside the original album artwork by Kim Gordon. Prince’s new cowboy band paintings draw from his own collection of cowboy records and his first series of band paintings debuted at 303 Gallery in 2012. These are bands on bands, "paintings that could have been played at CBGB’s."
Richard Prince was born in 1949 in the Panama Canal Zone and lives and works in New York. His work has been the subject of major survey exhibitions, including Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1992); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1993); Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (1993); Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel (2001, traveled to Kunsthalle Zurich and Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg); Serpentine Gallery, London (2008) and Kunsthaus Bregenz (2014). The retrospective “Richard Prince: Spiritual America” opened at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 2007 and traveled to The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis in 2008.