DENISE PRINCE at MARYMARY projects PRESS RELEASE
CONTACT: Mary Ehni 917-991-0834
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MARYMARY projects is pleased to announce the opening of an exhibition:
DENISE PRINCE
CAPTIVATING NOT CAPTIVE
Opening Reception Sunday, November 3 , 1pm - 6pm
Ten Jay Street in Tribeca
By appointment November 4 thru December 1
At a time when the visual arts community, and in particular fashion photography, have come to recognize the need for a more diverse and inclusive representation, one could argue that the solution still falls within conventional parameters of beauty and aspiration. The provocative portraits of DENISE PRINCE challenge that framework by staging photographs that reference fashion tropes with women whose appearance does not conform to convention. In this courageous work, the artist challenges definitions of beauty and commerce and celebrates a self-possession that comes from within.
DENISE PRINCE was chosen as one of twenty-five emerging photographers to
participate in Red Hook Labs New Artists III in June and resulted in a commission to make work for Vogue.
In 2016, MARYMARY projects was launched as a series of temporary exhibition spaces in New York’s Chelsea and Lower East Side, devoted to contemporary photography by emerging artists whose work proposes an original and challenging and intelligent consideration of the medium. Since then, MARYMARY projects has created a series of dialogues between new work in a converted domestic platform in Tribeca, with a rotating collection every two months, along with events and presentations to the community. MARYMARY projects has participated in the PhotoLondon Discovery Section as well as Spring Break in New York, and has been invited to exhibit at Photo London and the Unseen Festival in Amsterdam, Fall 2019.