PATRICK PAINTER, INC STEPHEN PRINA Born 1954 Galesburg, Illinois, November EDUCATION 1980 California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, M.F.A. 1977 Northern Illinois University, Dekaib, Illinois, B.F.A. 1974 Carl Sandburg College, Galesburg, Illinois, A.A. SOLO EXHIBITIONS 1998 Acropolis: Thanksgiving Day, 1989, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, March 1996 Retrospection Under Duress (lvory/mahogany), Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, January Retrospection Under Duress (White/American Maple), Luhring Augustine, New York, February Retrospection Under Duress (Clear/Ramin), Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany, 7 June - 27 July Retrospection Under Duress (Reprise), Daad Galerie, Berlin, December - January 1997 1994 Dom-Hotel Room 101, Cologne / Dom-Hotel, Zimmer 101, Köln, American Fine Art/Colin de Land Fine Art, New York, October 1993 Luhring Augustine, New York, February Galerie Gisela Capitain, KoIn, March Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, September 1992 Luhring Augustine Hetzler, January - February It was the best he could do at the moment, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, March - May Beat of the Traps, (performance collaboration with Mike Kelley and Anita Pace), The Remise, Vienna, June 3-4; Gindi Auditorium, University of Judaism, Los Angeles, June 29-30 1991 Gordon Lebredt/Stephen Prina: Comedies of Objecthood, The Power Plant, Toronto Galerie Peter Pakesch, Wien, May - June Galerie Max Hetzler, KoIn, September - October Galerie Fricke, Dusseldorf, November 1990 Galerie Gisela Capitain, KoIn, February - March Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, April
Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago, October 1989 Galerie Crousel-Robelin, Paris. Monochrome Painting, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, May; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, July/August; P.S. 1, New York, January Luhring Augustine Hetzler, Los Angeles, September Karsten Schubert, Ltd., London, October 1988 Luhring Augustine & Hodes Gallery, New York, May University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara, November 1980 An Observation of Musical Function, California Institute of the Arts, Gallery D301, March 1979 The Development of a Planar Standard, California Institute of the Arts, Mezzanine Gallery, performance, April 1978 Duet for Metronome and Frequency Analyzer, 1978, Carl Sandburg College, April Related Projects, Galesburg Civic Art Center, Galesburg, July 1976 A Planar Delineation, Northern Illinois University, Gallery 214, Visual Arts Building, October GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1999 Duration and Whenever, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 8 January 6 February 1998 Recycling Art History, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, 23 January -15 March 90069, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, 20 January - 14 February Freeze Frame, Galerie Douyon, Miami, 16 January - 14 February Deep Though, Basilico Fine Arts, New York, 20 September - 10 October 1997 One of You, Among You, With You: For Martin Kippenberger, Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid, November/December Sunshine & Noir: Art in Los Angeles 1960-1997, (performance), Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark, 16 May - 7 September; travelling to Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg Germany, October 1997 - January 1998; Hayward Gallery, London, England, January -March 1998; Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy, April - June 1998; UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, September - November 1998
1996 a/drift, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 20 October 1996-5 January 1997, curator: Joshua Decter Multiple Pleasure, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, 17 February - 16 March 1995 The Compulsion to Repeat: Repetition and Difference in Works form the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Anqeles, January - March Untitled (Reading Room), Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, 8 July - 19 August American Fine Arts Co., New York, 8 July - 29 July 25 Years: An Exhibition of Selected Works, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, 22 September - 28 October Installation 95, (with Luka Lasareishvili and Wolfgang Stiller), Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, Germany, 4 November - 3 December As I Remember It: Stephen Prina, Dokorder 7140, 4 Track 4/2 Channel Stereo/Mono Tape Deck, The Museum of Modern Art Syros, Syros - Cyclades, Greece, 12 November 1994 In the Field: Landscape in Recent Photography, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, October - December The First Fundraising Event to Benefit American Fine Arts, Co., American Fine Arts, Co., New York, December Rodney Graham, Stephen Prina, Jeff Wall, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, December - January 1993 A Complete Hand of One Suit, Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, January Works by Younger Artists from the Collection of Richard Brown Baker, The Century Association, January - February Fragments and Form: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, March - September Other Places, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, April - June Kontextualismus, Neue Galerie, Graz, October - November 1992 Knowledge: Aspects of Conceptual Art, University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, January - February; Santa Monica Art Museum, April Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawing, Museum of Modern Art, New York, February - May Documenta IX, Kassel, June - September Fifth Anniversary Show, Karsten Schubert, Ltd., London, February - April Works on Paper, Jim Schmidt Contemporary Art, Saint Louis, April - May
American Fine Arts Company, New York, June - July Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, August Art by Numbers, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, June - August Greatest Hits, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, July Not Working in LA/Good Design, Nomadic Site, Pasadena, October, curators: Jorge Pardo and Pae White 1991 Vanitas, Galerie Crousel - Robelin, Paris, January - February Beyond the Frame: American Art 1960 1990, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, July - August; National Museum of Art, Osaka, August - September; Fukuoka Art Museum, November - December Gulliver's Travels, Galerie Sophia Ungers, KöIn, April Rodney Graham, Stephen Prina, Christopher Williams, S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, June 51st Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, October - February Hyrid Abstract, Usdan Art Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont 1990 Prints and Multiples, Luhring Augustine Hetzler, Santa Monica, February Galerie Ursula Schurr, Stuttgart, March - April The Readymade Boomerang: The Sydney Biennale, Sydney, 10 April - 3 June Aperto: The Venice Biennale, Venice, May Drawings, Luhring Augustine Hetzler, Santa Monica, April - May Prints and Related Works, Tomoko Liguori Gallery, New York, June - July The Children's AIDS Project: A Benefit Exhibition, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica, July - August In The Beginning..., Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, November - January Feux Pales, Musee d'art Contemporain, Bordeaux, December - March 1991 1989 300 Years of Still Life Painting, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, January - February Mediated Knot, Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago, February - March A Brave New World, Karsten Schubert, London, March Prospect 89, Schirn Kunsthalle, Kunstverein Frankfurt, March Group Show, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, April
Thomas Bernhard Memorial Reading, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Venice, CA, May 12 A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation, MOCA, Los Angeles, May - June Group Show, Schmidt/Markow Gallery 1709, St. Louis, June Oppningsutstallning, Galleri Nordanstad - Skarstedt, Stockholm, September Media Influences, The Forum, St. Louis, September Recent Acquisitions at MOMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York, September -December Constructing a History: A Focus on MOCA's Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, November - March 1990 Une Autre Affaire, Salle de Flore, Dijon, 18 November - 13 January 1988 Material Ethics, Milford Gallery, New York, January Extended Play, Emily Harvey Gallery, New York, February MOCArt Auction '88, Jan Turner Gallery, Tamara Bane Gallery, and the Temporary Contemporary, Los Angeles, February James Casebere, Stephen Prina, Christopher Wool, Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago, March Striking Distance, Museum of Contemporary Art/The Temporary Contemporary, Los Angeles, March, performance An Evening of 19th and 20th Century Piano Music, Ahmanson Auditorium, Museum of Contemporary Art, April The Binational: American Art of the Late 80's, Institute of Contemporary Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, September; Stadtisch Kunsthalle, Kunstsammlung Nordrheim - Westfalen, Kunstverein Fur Die Rheinlande Und Westfalen, Dusseldorf, December; Kunsthalle, Bremen, February 1989; Athens National Art Gallery, Athens, November. Exhibition continues as American Art of the Late 8O's, Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, April 1989; Art Museum of the Ateneum, Helsinki, January 1990 Galerie Crousel - Robelin, Paris, October Luhring Augustine & Hodes Gallery, New York, December 1987 Projections in Public: A Storefront Window Projection Project, Bloomsbury City Flower Mart, Los Angeles, February; Archimatics, San Diego 2nd Annual Night of Erotica, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Venice, CA, February Tenth Anniversary Benefit Auction, 1987, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, April Cal Arts: Skeptical Belief(s), The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, May; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, January
Nothing Sacred, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, July Tim Ebner, John L Graham,Stephen Prina, Christopher Williams, Kuhlenschmidt/Simon Gallery, Los Angeles, September LA: Hot and Cool: The Eighties, MIT, List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, December 1986 TV Generations, LACE, Los Angeles, February The World - Wide Sound Sculpture, De Appel, Amsterdam, April Rooted Rhetoric, Una Tradizione nell Arte Americana, Castel dell Ovo Naples, July Mandelzomm, Castello di Vulci/Montalto di Castro, Rome, June 1985 Stephen Prina, Mark Stahl, Christopher Williams, Galerie Crousel - Hussenot, Paris, January; Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, July Earsight: Visual Scores and Musical Images, Nexus, Philadelphia, October; Southern Alleghenies Museum, Johnstown, November The Public Art Show, Nexus Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta, November; University of South Carolina, Columbia; Austin Pea State University, Clarkville; Valencia Community College, Orlando; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh; University of the South, Sewanee. The Art of Memory/The Loss of History, The New Museum, New York, performance, November 1984 Jenny Holzer, Stephen Prina, Mark Stahl, Christopher Williams, De Appel, Amsterdam, December; Gewad, Ghent, December 1982 74th American Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago, June 1980 Investigations: Probe-Structure-Analysis, The New Museum, New York, September 1979 Group Exhibition of Some CalArts Works and Works by Other People Who Have Passed Through, Vancouver School of Art, Vancouver, BC Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover Claremont College, Claremont, February Ryder Gallery, Kroeber Hall, University of California, Berkeley University of Hartford, Hartford The Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles 1978 University of California, Irvine, December 1976 5 Artists, Galesburg Civic Art Center, Galleries I & II, performance, July
BIBLIOGRAPHY 1998 Clark, Vicki. Recycling Art History, Exhibition catalogue, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts 1997 Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A. 1960-1997, Exhibition catalogue, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark Martin, Timothy. "Stephen Prina: Monumental Restraint, art + text, February - April, pp. 70-75, illus. (including cover) 1996 McKenna, Kristine. "Getting His Chaos in Order, The Los Angeles Times/Calendar, January 21, p. 69, 73 1995 Dector, Joshua. "Review - Stephen Prina at American Fine Arts, Co. ", Artforum, January, pp. 87-88, (illus.) Greene, David A. "Stephen Prina's Public Domain", Los Angeles Reader, January 6, p. 18 Thill, Robert. "Stephen Prina: Scanning the Field of Available Forms", Flash Art, February, pp. 77-79 1993 Brody, Jacqueline. The Print Collector's Newsletter, September - October, p. 148 (illus.) Hammond, Pamela. "Review", ARTnews, December, pp.142-143 (illus.) Pagel, David. "Prina Shows an Urbane Archival Exercise", Los Angeles Times, September 17, p. F21 Greene, David. "Stephen Prina", Art Issues, November/December, p. 41 1992 Kandel, Susan. "Skewering Institutional Myths", Los Angeles Times, January 24, p. F19 Chattopadhyay, Collette. "An Ordered Past: Stephen Prina at Luhring Augustine Hetzler", Artweek, February Kimmelman, Michael. "Just What is a Drawing? Definitions, Definitions", The New York Times, February 21, p. 29 It was the best he could do at the moment, Rotterdam, Museum Boymans - van Beuningen, 1992 (exhibition catalogue) Steiner, Bettina. "Vereinzelung fur Auge und Ohr", Die Presse, June 5, p. 17 Documenta IX, exhibition catalogue, volume 1, pp. 205-206; volume III, pp.438-439 Jinkner - Lloyd, Amy, "Musing on Museology", Art in America, June, pp. 44-51 Dirty Data: The Collection of Wilhelm Schurmann, (Aachen: Ludwig fur internationale Kunst, 1992) exhibition catalogue
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51st Carnegie International, exhibition catalogue, Carnegie Museum of Art 1990 Smith, Roberta, "Minimalism on the March: More and More, Less and Less", The New York Times, January 26, p. Cl Pagel, David, "Stephen Prina: Municipal Art Gallery and Luhring Augustine Hetzler," Artscribe, January - February, p. 84 Smith, Roberta, "Stephen Prina", The New York Times, April 13, p. C26 "New Art", Harry Abrams, Inc., New York, 1960, p. 156 Rimanelli, David. "Stephen Prina at Luhring Augustine", Artforum, Summer, pp. 165-166 "Works in Progress", photographic portfolio. LA Style, June, pp. 188-199 Clearwater, Bonnie. "Letter from the Editor: The Order of Chaos", Visions, Spring, pp. 2-4 The Readymade Boomerang: Certain Relations in 20th Century Art, exhibition catalogue, Sydney Biennale, Sydney, April - June Damjanov, Maja. "Stephen Prina", Tema Celeste, July - October, p. 56 Lumby, Catharine. "Sydney Biennial, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney", Flash Art, Summer, p. 180 Collins, Amy Fine. "Arte Duro," Vogue Espana, July, pp. 112-116 Artner, Alan. "Stephen Prina", Chicago Tribune, October 19, Section 7, pp. 76-77 Malsch, Friedemann. "Stephen Prina", Kunstforum, October, pp. 326-327 Hapgood, Susan. "Stephen Prina at Luhring Augustine", Art in America, October, p. 217 "La Chair est triste, helas! et j'ai lu tous les livres", Feux Pales, exhibition catalogue, Musee d'art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, December - March 1991, pp. 93-104, reproduction on p. 100 "New Progressive Artists in New York", 10 (Japanese magazine), No. 181, p. 256 1989 Siegle, Robert. "Lynne Tillman: Madame Realism's Feminist Ethnology", Suburban Ambush: Downtown Writing and the Fiction of Insurgency, (Baltimore and London: John Hopkins University Press, 1989) Adams, Brooks. "Into the Words: Thoughts on a Forest of Signs", Visions Art Quarterly, Winter, pp. 20-22 Kornblau, Gary. "Stephen Prina", Art Issues, No. 2, February, p. 24 Knight, Christopher. "Obscurs Objets du Desir: Une Foret de Signes", Art Press, pp. 21-25 Karsten Schubert, Ltd. A Brave New World, exhibition catalogue, essay by Cohn Gardner, March
Striking Distance, exhibition catalogue, MOCA/Temporary Contemporary, Los Angeles, March French, Christopher. "La -La Land Goes Legitimate", Journal of Art, April Miller, Daryl. "Stephen Prina's Creative Synergy", Daily News, Sunday, May 7, LA Life, p. 15 Prina, Stephen. Monochrome Painting, exhibition catalogue, Renaissance Society, Chicago, May; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, July - August; P.S. 1, New York, January 1990 A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation, exhibition catalogue, MOCA, Los Angeles, May - June Knight, Christopher. "Temporary Points Way with Signs", Los Angeles Herald Examiner, May 21, p. El Artner, Alan. "Green with Irony", Chicago Tribune, June 1, 5 - Tempo 8 Herwitz, Daniel. "A Forest of Signs", Modern Painters, June 7, pp. 84-85 Rugoff, Ralph. "Lost in the Woods", LA Weekly, July 14-20, p. 35 Knight, Christopher. "Prina Paints the Color of Money", Los Angeles Herald Examiner, July 28, p. 32 Mercuri, Bernardo and Peter Weiermair. "Prospect 89", Tema Celeste, July - September, pp. 69-71 Smith, Richard. "MOCA Navigates A Forest of Signs", New Art Examiner, Summer, pp. 28-31 Geer, Suvan. "An Intelligent Foray into One Color Painting", Los Angeles Times, August 12, p. V6 Curtis, Cathy. "Stephen Prina at Luhring Augustine Hetzler", Los Angeles Times, September 29, p. VI 22 Palmer, Laurie. "Stephen Prina: The Renaissance Society", Artforum, September, p. 151-152 Drohojowska, Hunter. "Stop Making Sense", ArtNews, October, pp. 146-151 Martin, Timothy. Exquisite Corpse: The Complete Paintings of Manet, '57 Through '66 of 556, exhibition catalogue, Karsten Schubert Ltd., October Constructing a History: A Focus on MOCA's Permanent Collection, exhibition catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, November - March, 1990 Steffen, Barbara. "Los Angeles: Something New in the West", Artscribe, November/December, pp. 9-11
Gilbert Rolfe. Jeremy, "The Price of Goodness", Artscribe, November/December, pp. 48-53 Kandel, Susan. "LA in Review", Arts, November, pp. 112-113 Prina, Stephen. "Twelve Artists on the Year's Books", Artforum, December, pp. 130-131 Knight, Christopher. "Diving into the Meat and the Potatoes", Los Angeles Times, December 31, Calendar, p. 8 Halpern Brougher, Nora, "Stephen Prina", Flash Art, November/December, pp. 144-145 1988 Newport Harbor Art Museum and The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago. Cal Arts: Skeptical Belief(s) exhibition catalogue, essay by Catherine Lord, et. al., January, "By These Walls" by Stephen Prina, pp. 14-16, 49, 71, 77 "Skeptical Belief(s) Raises Doubts", Qrange County Register, January 24, p. K 22 Pincus, Robert L., "Cal Arts Alumni Show Skeptical Beliefs in a Variety of Ways", San Diego Union, February 28 Emily Harvey Gallery, New York. Extended Play, exhibition catalogue, February Essays by Peter Frank et. al. Unpaginated illustration Jalon Allan, "Skeptical Belief(s) Exhibit Displays Varied Styles of Cal Arts Graduates", Los Angeles Times, Orange County Edition, January 24, pp. 49C, 49D Knight, Christopher. "Focusing on the Hidden Meaning of 'Untitled' Works", Los Angeles Herald Examiner, February 7, p. E2 Artner, Alan. "At the Galleries", Chicago Tribune, March 24, Section 5, p. 12 Knight, Christopher. "Contemporary Art Concerns", Los Angeles Herald Examiner, April 3, p. F4 Wager, Gregg. "West Coast Premiere of Prina Work at MOCA", Los Angeles Times, April 12, p. V1O Knight, Christopher. "Constructive Engagement", Los Angeles Herald Examiner, April 15, Magazine p. 33 (illustration: black & white) Muchnic, Suzanne, "Cohesive Show Looks at Life from 'Distance'", Los Angeles Times, April 27, p. VI Selwyn, Marc. "New Art LA", Flash Art, Summer, pp. 109-115 Raczka, Robert, "MOCA Sights Local Art in Striking Distance", New Art Examiner, Chicago, June, pp. 139-140 Dean, Robert. "Stephen Prina: Museum of Contemporary Art", Artforum, September, pp. 151-152, (illus.: black & white) Ross, David and Jurgen Harten, "American Art of the Late 80's: The Binational", ICA & MFA, Boston, September
Decter, Joshua, "Stephen Prina", Flash Art, International Edition, October, p. 133 Knight, Christopher, "A Binational Survey of the State of the Art", Los Angeles Herald Examiner, October 30, p. E2 Dyer, Richard, "Prina's Distressing 'Beethoven' Program", The Boston Globe, November 17 Stapen, Nancy, "Review of Binational, MFA & ICA," ArtNews, December, pp.167-168 Martin, Timothy, "In the Years Preceding Olympia", Visions Art Quarterly, Winter, pp. 6-10 Woodard, Joseph, "Playing with Information", Artweek, November 11, p. 5 1987 Prina, Stephen and Christopher Williams, eds. "The Construction and Maintenance of our Enemies", New Observations, No. 44, New York Prina, Stephen and Christopher Williams. "New Observations", Journal, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, No. 46, Vol. 6, Winter, pp. 4-5 Cotter, Holland. "Eight Artists Interviewed", May, pp. 162, 163, 178, 199 Artner, Alan. "Cal Arts has more questions than answers", Chicago Tribune, June 19, section 7, p. 41 Fehlau, Fred, "Tim Ebner, John L. Graham, Stephen Prina, Christopher Williams", Flash Art, November - December, pp. 108-109 Gardner, Cohn. "Stephen Prina and Christopher Williams", Artforum, December, pp. 125-126 MIT Visual Arts Center, LA: Hot and Cool: The Eighties, exhibition catalogue, essay by Dana Frus-Hansen, et. al., December, pp. 28, 29, 64, 68 1986 Nickas, Robert, "Stephen Prina, Mark Stahl, Christopher Williams", Video and the Arts, San Francisco, No. 11, Winter, pp. 53-54 TV Generations, exhibition catalogue, LACE, Los Angeles, February, p. 57 Guercio, Gabriele. Rooted Rhetoric, Una Tradizione Nell Arte Americana, Guida Editori, Napoli, exhibition catalogue, pp.72-75 d'avossa, Antonio. Mandelzomm exhibition catalogue, Electa, Milan Indiana, Gary "Castle to Castle", The Village Voice, August 19 Mueller, Cookie. "Art and About", Details, October, Vol. V, No. 4 Indiana, Gary. "Rooted Rhetoric: Castel deii'ovo, Naples", Flash Art, October/November, pp. 83-84 Prina, Stephen and Christopher Williams. "New Observations", Marginalia, Vol. 1, No. 1, November 1, inside front and back covers
Singerman, Howard. "Stephen Prina", LA Weekly, December 12-18, p. 49 1985 Soutif, Daniel. Un pinceau aristotelicien, Liberation, Paris, February 15, p. 36 Dagen, Philippe. "Prina, Stahl, Williams: Galerie Crousel-Hussenot", Art Press, No. 91, Paris, April, p. 68 Gibbs, Michael. "Deferral of Meaning", De Appel, Amsterdam, pp. 26-34 Prina, Stephen and Christopher Williams. "A Conversation with Sheila McLaughlin and Lynne Tillman", Journal, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, No. 4, Vol. 5, Spring, pp. 40-45 Prina, Stephen. "The Twenty - Six Inch Experience", TV Guides, Barbara Kruger, ed., The Kuklapolitan Press, New York The New Museum, New York. The Art of Memory/The Loss of History. Exhibition catalogue, essay by William Olander, November, pp. 12, 36, 37 & 57 Jones, Ronald, Public Art. Nexus Contemporary Art Gallery, Atlanta, p. 16 1984 Prina, Stephen, "Los Angeles Times, January 3-7, 1984," Whitewalls, Chicago, #10/11, Spring/Summer, pp. 59-63 Gewad/Appel, Ghent, Amsterdam, Jenny Holzer, Stephen Prina, Mark Stahl Christopher Wililams. Exhibition catalogue, essay by Coosje van Bruggen, December, pp. 4-6, 13-22 1982 The Art Institute of Chicago, 74th American Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, essay by Anne Rorimer, June, pp. 5-11, 38, 60 Kirschner, Judith Rossi. "Chicago: 74th American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago", Artforum, October, pp. 74-76 1981 Zanetti, Paola Serra. "New Work/New York", META: Parole & Immagini, Florence, No. 3, February 1980 The New Museum, New York, "Investigations: Probe Structure Analysis", Exhibition catalogue, essay by Lynn Gumpert and Alan Schwartzman: pp. 6-19, 32-35, 44