Artist Ken Price Ceramics

Ken price was an american artist best known for his small scale ceramic sculptures which resembled biomorphic blobs sliced geodes and surreal teacups.

Artist ken price ceramics.

Ken price kenneth martin price american sculptor born feb. By the early 1960s price had travelled to japan. 16 1935 los angeles calif died feb. Kenneth price february 16 1935 february 24 2012 was an american artist who made ceramic sculpture.

The gallery and studio of ken price a contemporary los angeles artist showing his sculptures paintings and drawings. The much loved ceramic sculptor ken price who died last year is the subject of a doubleheader survey at the metropolitan museum of art and the drawing center in soho while the los angeles. Along with textural and geometric appeal each piece bore inadvertent traces of its maker s hand. 24 2012 arroyo hondo n m created mainly small no larger than 25 50 cm 10 20 in on a side but exquisite geometric ceramic sculptures that featured vibrant colour unusual textures and allusions to erotica and he was credited with helping to elevate ceramics into an important.

Feb 7 2017 explore ms reisman s board ken price ceramics on pinterest. Find an in depth biography exhibitions original artworks for sale the latest news and sold auction prices. Price s work intensive process involves applying numerous coats of paint and sanding each piece to achieve a glossy surface of variegated color as seen in. He continued his studies at chouinard art institute in 1957 and received an mfa degree.

October 6 2019 on a surfing trip to mexico in the 1950s ken price became enamored with the folk pottery that populated tijuana s shops and vendor carts. See more ideas about ken price ceramics ceramic sculpture. Inspired by the form and dynamism of ocean waves as well as the human body ken price s painted ceramic shapes are both erotic and cartoonish with plump forms and gently sloping curves. He studied at the chouinard art institute and otis art institute now otis college of art and design in los angeles before receiving his bfa degree from the university of southern california in 1956.

View ken price s 378 artworks on artnet. Ken price february 16 1935 february 24 2012. Ken price whose small worldly exquisitely finished abstract sculptures in glazed or painted clay exploded the distinction between art and craft and established him as one of the outstanding.