{"id":2346,"date":"2012-09-07T13:07:33","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T13:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/index.php\/2012\/09\/07\/ken-price-the-faberge-of-funk\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T17:23:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T17:23:29","slug":"ken-price-the-faberge-of-funk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/ken-price-the-faberge-of-funk","title":{"rendered":"Ken Price: The Faberge of Funk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full tmblr-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"377\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/image-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/image-1.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/image-1-300x226.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/html\/exhibition.cfm?tExhibition_id=337\">In 1996, L.A. Louver hosted its first ever solo exhibition of works by Ken Price<\/a>. Profiled by Kristine McKenna in the Los Angeles Times for this exhibition, here\u2019s an excerpt from the text:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cAs the Faberge of Funk, Ken Price has no rivals,\u201d declares art critic Robert Hughes, who describes Price\u2019s work as resembling \u201cexquisitely glazed versions of stuff you\u2019d want to scrape off your boot.\u201d Touted by critic Peter Schjeldahl as \u201cthe most important underrated living American artist,\u201d Price has long been one of L.A.\u2019s most invisible local heroes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Kristine McKenna, Los Angeles Times, Sunday, January 7, 1996<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full tmblr-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"612\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/image.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/image.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/image-245x300.jpeg 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cMy favorite American artist of the 20th century is Charlie Parker and I\u2019ve listened to jazz just about every day my life \u2013\u2013 I think it\u2019s affected my art too,\u201d he says. \u201cI work intuitively and believe in the idea of skill as a highway to the unconscious. I think you have to master your materials so well that you don\u2019t need to think about technical things when ideas start to flow.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Ken Price, Los Angeles Times, Sunday, January 7, 1996<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>We are counting down the days to the opening of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacma.org\/art\/exhibition\/ken-price\">Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective at LACMA<\/a>,&nbsp;which begins on Sunday, September 16, 2012!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Images top to bottom: L.A. Louver announcement for Ken Price (January 11 - February 10, 1996); Los Angeles Times, January 7, 1996<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1996, L.A. Louver hosted its first ever solo exhibition of works by Ken Price. 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