Richard Prince

Since the 1970s, Richard Prince has been dismantling and questioning American archetypes and institutions through an art style characterized by the appropriation of various imagery. His continuing obsession with the American cowboy prototype and its proximity to the culture of Western masculinity reveals itself in Untitled (2020). Prince layers a joke about “two men at a bar” over highly saturated cowboy imagery, referring to the artist's Jokes series that speaks to white, middle-class America's sexual fantasies and frustrations in the 80s.