NYAB Event - Ken Price "Sculpture and Drawings, Works from the 1960's and 1970's"

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At Nyehaus
Media: Drawing, Sculpture

In 1960, Ken Price first exhibited his eccentric mound and egg-shaped ceramic objects at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles. These sensual little objects with surfaces that include everything from low-fired glazes to car enamel to opalescent acrylics, gained Price (then in his early twenties) immediate recognition as an artist's artist. Throughout the early to mid-sixties, Price continued producing and exhibiting ostensibly separate bodies of work based on consistent themes.

Perhaps more than with any other series of Price's career, these works straddle a narrow precipice separating the elegant from the abhorrent, and the graceful from the crude. Sexual and scatological associations are inevitable reactions to the bulbous protrusions of the eggs and globular asymmetry of the lumps and bumps. In Specimen CJ1303 a strangely shriveled glistening form rests upon a cushioned base like a prize winning biological experiment from a post-war science fair.

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