Ben Prince: For painting lessons call: Vinnie 718.802.1386

San Franciscan Ben Prince’s first solo exhibition will consist of intimate ink and wash drawings on paper. Easter-egg-hued and delicately-drawn, they are catalogues of the catastrophic and banal.

An unoccupied chair on the roof. Cannibalism. Spontaneous combustion. Spontaneous decomposition. A beautifully drawn toilet. An admonition: “Don’t marry Ed.” An elephant drops from the sky. Empty rooms. Headless beasts. Beastless heads.   A man slumps onto a diner table: “2 eggs, no bacon, wheat toast, coffee.”

With the nervous energy of the late twentieth-century city, they are both inward and public — a highly-personal view of a culture. They are about the dark stuff just around the corner, or under your bed. They are charming and witty. Neurotic and insightful.