Artist
Ken Price
USA
Color and form. Where pottery becomes sculpture.
He started as a student of Voulkos, then went somewhere entirely his own.
Ken Price was part of the revolutionary circle around Peter Voulkos. But while Voulkos went big and gestural, Price went small, intimate, and intensely colored. His mature work—biomorphic forms covered in layers of acrylic paint, sanded and polished—occupies a space between pottery, sculpture, and painting. The colors are extraordinary: hot pinks, acid greens. He spent years on each piece, building up dozens of paint layers.
What happens when you take ceramics somewhere entirely your own?