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With all the talk of Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective<\/a> at LACMA this fall, we wanted to point out some of our favorite recent reviews and articles stemming from the exhibition:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. LACMA\u2019s Unframed blog<\/a> has a delightful post<\/a> on examining the forms and property\u2019s of Ken Price\u2019s \u201c100% Pure\u201d, 2005 - which is a part of Frank Genhry\u2019s (designer of the retrospective) collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ken Price, 100% Pure, 2005. \u00a9 Ken Price, Photo \u00a9 Fredrik Nilsen<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Check out the video<\/a> with curator Stephanie Barron, as she talks about collaborating with Price and architect Frank Gehry on the design of the exhibition at LACMA:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Sharon Mizota\u2019s writes a wonderful review entitled \u201cKen Price\u2019s Fantastic, Idiosyncratic Blobs<\/a>\u201d for KCET. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mizota states:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cA surfer, and a lover of jazz and the Dodgers, Price cared little for the machinations of the art world\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026Yet Price kept his own counsel. \"All that Ken wanted to do was be in the studio,\u201d recalls L.A. Louver gallerist Peter Goulds, who has represented Price since 1994, \u201cHe had a circle of very particular artist friends and individuals in the community that he kept close to and otherwise he wasn\u2019t going to be running around going to every party in town.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Ken Price, \u201cSlate Cup,\u201d c. 1972, Fired and painted clay, 4 \u00bd x 7 \u00bd x 6 \u00bd in., Collection of Joan and Jack Quinn, Beverly Hills, \u00a9 Ken Price. | Photo: \u00a9 Fredrik Nilsen.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Catherine Wagley of the LA Weekly asks \u201cWhy are Ken Price\u2019s Oddball Sculptures at LACMA so Compelling?\u201d<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Price would build up clay forms like these, firing them up to 20 times each. He had stopped using glaze in the 1980s and would instead paint the surfaces with layer upon layer of acrylic before working back into the color with rubbing alcohol or wet sand paper, making it look as if paint had eroded in places. Finally, with a Q-tip, he would add new, bright colors into those eroded spots, giving his sculptures meticulously mottled, multicolored skins.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective<\/a> continues on exhibit through 6 January 2013. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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