Ken Price

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Ken Price

Artist's Name:

Ken Price

Preferred medium:

sculpture / plastik

birth year:

1935

Nationality:

City:

Venice, CA

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"Perhaps more than any other post-war American artistPrice has enjoyed the paradoxical 'luxury' of being simultaneously both celebrated and underappreciated for almost fifty years," notes Matthew Higgs in the catalogue accompanying the exhibition. Ken Price has consistently produced exquisite, highly influential sculptures throughout his career. The new sculptures are sensuous, fetish-like objects, each meticulously painted and sanded to create a rich, patterned skin with a jewel-like surface. This exhibition will include the artist's first monumental sculpture, standing over seven feet tall and having the same brightly-colored, honed surface for which his sculpture is known. The new sculptures are accompanied by a small selection of important earlier sculptures, the earliest of which, entitled Specimen, from 1963, was included in Price's first museum exhibition, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Already his signature style is evident: small scale; vivid colors; peculiar, abstract forms derived from nature; and marked attention to display. Price works in series, and his style often changes dramatically every few years. Included are examples of his works from the later 1960s through the early 1990s, including his "slate" sculptures, his "geometric" period of the 1970s, and the large, bulbous forms with perforations from the late 1980s. Ken Price is also a distinguished draughtsman, having made drawings in addition to sculptures throughout his long career. This exhibition will include a selection of over 30 works on paper made between 1963 and 2006, the majority of which are being shown for the first time. The drawings include watercolor, graphite, gouache, ink, and collage. They cover a wide range of subjects, corresponding to the enormous variety of Price's three-dimensional works. Ken Price was born in Los Angeles in 1935. In 1959 he returned to Los Angeles after studying on the East Coast and quickly became part of the emerging Los Angeles art community centered around the Ferus Gallery. He has exhibited his work regularly since that time, including one-person museum exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Menil Collection , Houston; the Whitney Museum of American Art , New York; the Walker Art Center , Minneapolis; and, most recently, the Chinati Foundation, Marfa. Price lives and works in New Mexico and Los Angeles. (www.mmarks.com)

important exhibitions from Ken Price

Exhibition	Location	City	Country	Date
Ken Price - Sculptures and Drawings 1994-2004	The Chinati Foundation	Marfa	US	01.10.2004

Against the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida Collection	MoMA - Museum of Modern Art	New York	US	03.05.2006

Ken Price	Matthew Marks Gallery 24th Street	New York	US	23.09.2006

Ken Price	Matthew Marks Gallery 22nd Street	New York	US	05.02.2010

Gesehen & Geliebt # 2: Pots & Paper	Museum Ludwig	Köln	DE	01.06.2010

MOCA's First Thirty Years	The Museum of Modern Art - Grand Avenue - MOCA	Los Angeles	US	15.11.2009

Proof: The Rise of Printmaking in Southern California	Norton Simon Museum	Pasadena	US	01.10.2011

Le Monde Comme Volonte Et Comme Papier Peint	Le Consortium	Dijon	FR	21.04.2012

Ordinary Madness	Carnegie Museum of Art - CMA	Pittsburg	US	15.10.2010

The David Whitney Bequest	Menil Collection	Houston	US	11.05.2007