Ken Price

Chinati is proud to feature sculptures and drawings by Ken Price created over the last ten years. With consummate craftsmanship and a brilliant sense of color, Price has been making ceramic sculptures since the early 1960s. His handmade forms have continued to evolve over the years, resulting in a body of work that stands as some of the most unique sculpture of our time. Price’s recent fired and painted clay pieces bulge, ripple, and drip into colorful, voluptuous forms suffused with seductive wit and a myriad of visual associations. The sculptures are painted with many layers of multicolored acrylic paint, which is then sanded down to reveal a constellation of unexpected hues and patterns that meld the works’ form and surface into one organic whole—color appears to emanate from the inside out. In addition to 23 sculptures, Chinati will also exhibit 40 of Price’s drawings, which depict melancholy L.A. interiors and cityscapes, land and seascapes, industrial scenes, as well as poignant erotica.

Price was born in California, maintains a studio in Venice, California, but lives primarily in Taos, New Mexico with his wife Happy. His work was most recently shown at LA Louver Gallery, California (2004); Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (2003); Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York (2003); and the Albright-Knox Museum, New York (2003).

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Ken Price - Sculptures and Drawings 1994-2004