Erik La Prade
Erik La Prade is an American freelance journalist, poet, photographer, and non-fiction writer. La Prade has had 14 publications. He is based in New York City. About. Erik La Prade was born in New York City. He received his B.A.degree in English in 1978 and M.A. degree in Comparative Literature in 1990 from City College of New York. His poems have appeared in "Hot Summer Nights: A Collection of Erotic Poetry and Prose" (Inner Child Press, 2012), "Wildflowers, a Woodstock mountain poetry anthology" (Woodstock, NY: Shivistan Publishing), "Artist and Influence", "Fish Drum", "The Hat", "The Reading  Room", "The Sienese Shredder" and "The New York Times". He has also served as Poetry Editor for "The Reading Room". La Prade's poem, "Baudelaire, Ashbery, Updike," earned "Things Maps Don’t Show" (Del Mar, CA: Aegis Press, 1995, pp. 43–44) a place in the Ashbery Research Center (ARC) archive of Bard College. ARC's copy of the book is shelved with a copy of correspondence from La Prade. A collection of La Prade's interviews, "Breaking Through: Richard Bellamy and The Green Gallery, 1960–1965", was published in 2010 by MidMarch Arts Press. The book traces the history of Bellamy 's celebrated art gallery through interviews with twenty-three of its exhibited artists including Claes Oldenburg, James Rosenquist, and Frank Stella. A frequently cited source of information on the gallery, the book is archived at both the library of the Museum of Modern Art and at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library. La Prade has also published articles and interviews in "Art Critical", "Art in America", "The Brooklyn Rail", "NY Arts Magazine", "Rain Taxi: A Review of Books", "Night Magazine", "Captured: A Film/Video History of The Lower East Side" (Seven Story Press, 2005), and "The Outlaw  Bible of American Essays" (Thunder's Mouth Press, 2006). La Prade not only frequently writes about art and artists, he occasionally makes art. His photo, "A High Line Experience," appears in "Lid Magazine #8" archived at the School of Visual Arts Library Picture & Periodicals Collections. Front Window Gallery has featured a collection of La Prade's black-and-white photographs, including candid portraits of Chuck Close, John Baldessari, among others. La Prade is one of the subjects in a series of portrait photographs by Lucas Samaras, which includes Cindy Sherman and Lisa Yuskavage, among others, titled "Poses / Born Actors", housed  in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC.