Lily Prince
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Evening, 2025 -
Morning, 2025
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Dawn, 2025
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Noon, 2025
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Night, 2025
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Cloud Euphoria, 2024
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Around Midnight, 2024
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Blue Moon, 2024
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Water At the Edge of the Desert, 2024
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Star Gaze, 2024
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While You Were Sleeping, 2024
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Dreaming, 2024
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Distant Rain, 2023-2024
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Fertile Moon, 2022
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American Beauty (17), 2020
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American Beauty (19), 2020
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American Beauty (15), 2020
Lily Prince has her B.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design, her M.F.A. from Bard College and attended the Skowhegan residency. Prince has exhibited widely nationally and internationally and was awarded commissions including the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and numerous hotels. Prince was awarded the prestigious Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in painting in 2020.
Lily was Artist-in-Residence at historic site Olana and was awarded residencies at Draftsmen's Congress at The New Museum, NY; BAU Institute, Italy; and Galerie Huit, Arles, France. Recently, Prince has been drawing en plein air in France, Italy, Ireland and the American west. She was recently interviewed for ArtSpiel magazine; Vasari 21; Zephyr Maize; and The Art Life on Radio Kingston.
Artist Statement:
"I take to heart the adage that beauty is the greatest form of protest. Working initially en plein air, I attempt to take what I experience observationally in nature and translate it into a language of personal expression and universal significance. I consider myself an explorer of specific terrains, studying the atmosphere of diverse spaces. In these times of environmental and societal devastation, I consider it a political act to immerse myself in the landscape to record the natural beauty lurking there: perhaps to incite the arousal of sentiment, a stirring of connectedness.
My work combines perception in the moment, memory of past space and aspiration of future place. The American west, Italy and New York's Hudson Valley are among the places I explore. My drawings function as research for studio works that are either watercolor and gouache, acrylic, marker or oil pastel. My travel research of plein air drawing combines with invented imagery back in my studio. The combined elements from all the landscapes I explore allows me to create new worlds and vistas that feel familiar, fresh and surprising. New York’s Hudson Valley contributes distant mountains and rows of corn fields; the landscape of Italy’s Crete Senesi and Lago di Como’s mountains has given my work the twisting, intertwining, ordered, pattern-infused hills; the American west’s flora and endless, open space has given my work an intensity of light and color as well as a sense of temperature and limitless, expansive possibility. My observational gesture meets abstract, patterned mark-making, creating an ordered chaos of the natural world."
Prince's work has appeared in the New York Times, NewYork magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, and New American Paintings, as well as in 2 books by Richard Klin, among many other publications. She has lectured at Yale, Vassar, Cornell, RISD, SVA, and Pratt. Prince was an associate professor of painting and drawing for many years at a state university in NJ and now gives workshops and also teaches online. When she isn't traveling to plein air draw, Lily Prince is painting in her 1850's barn studio in New York's Hudson Valley or in her new Nashville studio.
Lily has been awarded commissions by numerous hotels and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. In addition to her recent residency at Galerie Huit in Arles, France, Prince was Artist-in-Residence at state historic site Olana in 2016. In 2014 Prince was chosen for Draftsmen's Congress, a residency with international artists at New York's The New Museum. Lily was one of only two international artists awarded a fully-funded residency at the BAU Institute's residency in Italy, 2013.
Lily Prince's work has appeared in the New York Times, New York magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, the Newark Star- Ledger, New American Paintings, San Francisco Weekly, The Bloomsbury Review, Rain Taxi, Jewish Currents Magazine, Chronogram magazine, and the literary journal Crossborder. A catalogue of her drawings The Ten Plagues was published, with poems by David Shapiro, by The Paterson Museum. In 2021 Zephyr and Maize published her work: American Beauty with Lily Prince and Richard Klin, edited by Varia Serova and also Studio Visit with Lily Prince by Varia Serova. Lily was interviewed for ArtSpiel,in 2020 byEtty Yaniv and also by Ann Landi in Vasari21. Prince has lectured widely, including at Yale, Vassar, Cornell, RISD's European Honors Program, Pratt and at the Artists Talk on Art series. Lily was interviewed on WVKR radio for their cultural currents show as well as on WBAI and WAMC, among others. Her book of portraits with writer Richard Klin's profiles, Something To Say: Thoughts on Art and Politics in America, was published by Leapfrog Press, 2011. Prince was commissioned to create 100 illustrations for Klin's book Abstract Expressionism For Beginners, published by For Beginners Books, 2016. Lily Prince lives in NY and after 30 years as an associate professor she now teaches online and offers in-person workshops.
Critic, poet and art historian David Shapiro has written about Prince's work in his essay for the catalogue Paper Point Blank:
“She seems to have a learned scattering, the carefulness that counts, and the multiple humors of the body. It is easy to discern a Tantric centering that might also be part of the heritage of her essential syncretism. These richly colored works speak of a bold mysticity. But the balance and Eros of the work is strange and strongly painterly, and strong too its reliance on a devastating doubleness of vision. In Prince, one is observing both the pleasures of observation and a severe and principled devotion to abstraction.”
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In Bloom
17 Jun - 31 Aug 2025532 Gallery Jaeckel presents In Bloom , a group exhibition featuring Ian Hughes, Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh, Yongjae Kim, Paco Marcial, Christine Nguyen, John Alexander Parks, Jean-Guerly Pétion, Lily Prince, Danielle...Read more -
In the Belly of the Valley
14 Mar - 20 Apr 2024Susana Guerrero | Christine Nguyen Lily Prince | Danielle Riede Chelsea, New York: 532 Gallery presents In the Belly of the Valley , a group exhibition featuring works by Susana...Read more
PUBLICATIONS:
2023 Cultural Daily, artwork for By the Time I Get to Tucson, by Richard Klin
2022 Our Culture Magazine.com, Lily Prince, Both Sides Now by Richard Klin
2022 Valley News, Painting on front page, VT
2021 The Art Life, Radio Kingston, Interview with Lily Prince on American Beauty, NY 2021 Chronogram magazine, page 74
2021 Zephyr and Maize, American Beauty with Lily Prince and Richard Klin, by Varia Serova 2021 Zephyr and Maize, Studio Visit with Lily Prince by Varia Serova
2021 @artsandclimate, Lily Prince, by Etty Yaniv
2020 Vasari 21, What is a Drawing, part eight, Ann Landi
2020 ArtSpiel, Artspiel.org/lily-prince-honing-plein-air/ , Etty Yaniv 2020 60 Wrd/Min, Review, Lori Waxman
2019 Vasari21, Lily Prince Under the Radar, Ann Landi
2018 Arts 511 magazine, Lily Prince named in Top Ten NYC Artists Now
2018 ArtSpiel, Lily Prince in Cross Contemporary’s Wild World, Etty Yaniv
2018 Vasari 21, Plein Air Painters, Lily Prince, Ann Landi
2018 ArtSpiel, Lily Prince at Littlejohn Contemporary, Etty Yaniv
2018 Vasari 21, Pic of the Day, Lily Prince at Littlejohn Contemporary, Ann Landi
2018 ArtDaily.org, Littlejohn Contemporary Opens Exhibition of Lily Prince
2018 our risd, Natural Connections, by Simone Solondz
2017 The Brooklyn Rail, image of band Priests for profile by Richard Klin
2016 Compass Cultura, images for The Austrian Gambit by Richard Klin
2016 La Femmes Folles Calendar, image for month of July, 2017
2016 La Femmes Folles, interview and images
2016 our RISD Blog, images and article on Abstract Expressionism for Beginners
2016 Abstract Expressionism For Beginners, Illustrator, by Richard Klin, For Beginners Books
2016 On View magazine, profile with paintings
2016 The Compassion Anthology, paintings
2016 Florida Weekly, exhibition info with painting
2016 Drawing Rooms The Big Small Show exhibition catalogue
2016 xyz magazine, Journal of Rhode Island School of Design, profile and paintings
2014 Painter's Table, "Have You Met Artist...", Featured Artist, April 2014
2014 Yew Journal, paintings to accompany poetry, March
2014 The Forward, image of Hugh Nissenson, Remembering the Legacy of Hugh Nissenson, Jan
2013 Chronogram magazine, full-page painting, December
2013 The Daily Freeman, image of painting, November
2013 Cross Borders, cover for 2nd issue of literary magazine and inside art
2013 The Brooklyn Rail, image of The New Zion Trio, February
2013 Cross Borders, cover for inaugural issue of literary magazine
2013 Jewish Currents magazine, Special Calendar Edition, drawings and paintings
2012 Hudson Valley magazine, Leading Lady, image of Genya Ravan, July
2012 Jewish Currents magazine, Sheryl Oring:Taking Dictation, image of S.Oring, summer
2011 Something To Say, images of artists for book of profiles by Richard Klin, Leapfrog Press
2011 Rain Taxi, image of Quincy Troupe, April
2010 The Bloomsbury Review, image of Howard Zinn, April
2009 New American Paintings, Anniversary Edition, December
2008 January Magazine, photo of Noam Chomsky, July
2007 January Magazine, drawing of poet David Shapiro, July
2006 Bluecoupe Magazine, Photo for “The Kids Are All Right”, December
2005 New York Magazine, Photo of author Hugh Nissenson, September 26
2004 The Newark Star Ledger, Sept. 19, Art Review “First Look”, Dan Bischoff
2003 Art Is, George Quasha, White Box Gallery, NY; Poland Int’l Film Festival
2002 Library of Congress, Permanent Collection, Exit Art “Reactions”
2002 The New York Times, Sunday, January 27, Art Review, D. Dominick Lombardi
2001 The New York Times, Sunday, February 4, Art Review, William Zimmer
2001 New American Paintings, April/May, Open Studios Press, Wellesley,MA, B. Venn
2001 The New York Times, February 4, Review of “Re: Drawing”, Kenise Barnes, W.Zimmer
2000 The New York Times, New York Today Online, review of “Summer Paper”, NY
1999 Visual Artists Salute, Exhibition Catalogue from B.A.M.@ Feigen Gallery, NY, NY
1997 San Francisco Weekly, Image "Death of the Firstborn" in Weekend Edition
1997 The Proof, Short Film; Director Mathew Stone, Producer Gloria Zimmerman
1997 The China Project, Exhibition Catalogue from Nanjing College of Art Gallery
1996 The New York Times, The Parrish Museum 35th Annual, Phyllis Braff
1996 The New York Times, "Practitioner of a Lonely Art", Barry Schwabsky,2 images
1996 The Ten Plagues, Exhibition Catalogue, The Paterson Museum
1996 Paper Point Blank, Exhibition Catalogue, The Work Space Gallery, NY, NY
1993 360 Degrees, Exhibition Catalogue, Molica Gallery, Rome, Italy
1993 The New York Times, "re/SOURCE" Exhibition Review, Vivien Raynor
1991 Artist in the Marketplace, The Bronx Museum Exhibition Catalogue