welcome to 57 Stanton
A collaboration with If Museum x ilon Art Gallery Collection
(646) 634-4802 fiftysevenstanton@gmail.com
57 Stanton Street NY, NY 10002
HOURS:
2-10 pm Tuesday - Saturday 2-6 pm Sunday
on view
SURVIVOR
by RICK PROL
Opening celebration Wednesday, October 29, from 6-10 pm
on view from October 27 - November 9, 2025
57 Stanton Street, LES
Rick Prol can be described as an urban expressionist surrealism painter.
"Only in hindsight, of course, do I think of myself as a survivor. A survivor of NYC, my youth in the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s, and all that entailed. “To live in this town you must be tough, tough, tough, tough, tough, tough, tough!” There was a lot of beauty to be seen when NYC was at its “ugliest” and most dangerous. Like the West Side Highway area where I grew up near. There were many hidden places, abandoned spaces, and secret rooms. Lots of art comes out of an environment like that. There was room to play in, and it was sometimes illegal—that was the fun part. I wasn’t so much a child of the streets, but I knew them well. I knew how to get around and avoid trouble, more or less. I loved NY back then. I still do."
The decay and resilience is the human spirit. That’s what they are about—and human folly and absurdity. Destructive and constructive impulses. They often speak of a kind of addiction: to art, or sex, or drugs, or booze. I gave up drugs by the age of 17, never smoked cigarettes, and have never been an alcoholic. I speak in a non-judgmental way about the suffering of addiction, of the addict’s suffering and self-destruction. It is a metaphor for humanity’s self-destruction, but I am not preaching about it. I identify with it in a way." ~ Rick Prol
~Excerpt from an interview by Noah Becker from White Hot Magazine
GET LUCKY NYC!
Curated by 0h10 Mike
A one night event
Saturday, October 25, 2025
57 Stanton Artist Salon
October 9-November 30, 2025
57 Stanton Street, LES
Artists at 57 Stanton
Al Diaz
Amanda Sage
Anthony Haden-Guest
Anthony J Marraccini
Arnold Brooks
Arthur Kaye
Barbara Hulanicki
Bob Gruen
Brial Leo
Cannon Hersey
Carlos Pinto
Carrie Beehan
Charles Osawa
Christopher Hart Chambers
Clown Soldier
Daniel Rosenbaum
Dolly Faibyshev
Don Perlis
Drew Doggett
Duel
Elizabeth Gregory Gruen
Ellen Sandor
Esteban Vicente
Ford Crull
Gabe Kirchheimer
Gaia Abraxas
Ian Croft
Jake Genen
Javier Agredo
Jerry Pagane
Jillian King
Judith Kaufman Weiner
Karen Orange Newman
Karen Kertesz
Ken Hiratsuka
Kenjiro Kitade
Layla Love
Lee Klein
Len Speier
Linda Wulkan
Lindsey Nobel
Linus Coraggio
Lynn GIlbert
Maggie Reilly
Margaret Morton
Martin Parr
Mary Agredo
Matt Siren
Mick Rock
Nick Savides
Ohio Mike
Rick Prol
Rifka Midler
Roman Primitivo Albear
Roycer
Ruth Liftoff
Sandra Rauch
Sarkis Delimelkon
Shalom Neuman
Sinclair the Vandal
Stephen DiLauro
Susan Stair
Timothy White
Tom Palumbo
Todd Monaghan
Xenia Hoffmeisterova
