Ken Price, known for both ceramics and sculptures, is featured in several New York shows, including an exhibit, left, at the Matthew Marks Gallery.Photo: Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Nick Stillman writes of Mr. Price: "He is considered a crucial link between post-minimalism and postmodernism, yet he has been the subject of just a single retrospective, which traveled from the Menil Collection in Houston to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in 1992. Mr. Price has never really had his 'moment.'"Judging from the ubiquity of his work in New York this season, that might be changing."
Photo: Matt Moravec; Franklin Parrasch Gallery
Classification issues aren't likely to change with his new sculptures, which can look like a stack of soft internal organs, a gorgeous extracted tumor or a glittering lump of dung."Mr. Price with one of his sculptures.
Photo: Happy Price
"When it comes to discussing what these oddball shapes might mean, Mr. Price is notoriously elusive, so one infers what one can. The ideas for the shapes that become Ken Price sculptures begin with drawings, 'but the same drawing might make all of these forms,' he said."Photo: Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
"In 1972 Mr. Price embarked on a sixyear, never-finished ur-project of pottery, posters, weavings, painted dishware and installations he called death shrines, all inspired by the colors and craftsmanship of the pre-1950 folk pottery he saw in Mexico during surf trips.
"Taking his cue from a curio store and bar in Taos selling Mexican ceramics in the attic, he hatched a plan to rent a storefront, make his own billboards and fill the space with his own riffs on the ceramics he loved.
"The project, titled 'Happy's Curios,' occupied him for much of the 1970s, was displayed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1978 and is one of the more ambitious and bizarre pursuits in recent American art history."
Photo: Museum Associates/LACMA
"Mr. Price's almost indescribable ceramics are revered by fellow artists for dissolving the chasm between art and craft, while his lumpy, blobby, sluglike new sculptures are quintessential examples of biomorphic or formless art."Photo: Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
"A major retrospective of Mr. Price's sculptures from the late 1950s until the present will open at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in the fall of 2012 before traveling to the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas in 2013 and landing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art later that year."Photo: Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
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