Kenneth Price (February 16, 1935February 24, 2012) was an American artist who predominantly created ceramic sculpture. He studied at the

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and

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(now Otis College of Art and Design) in Los Angeles, before receiving his BFA degree from the

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in 1956. He continued his studies at

in 1957 and received an MFA degree from

New York State College of Ceramics The New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University (NYSCC) is a statutory college of the State University of New York located on the campus of Alfred University, Alfred, New York. There are a total of 616 students, including 536 undergradu ...

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in 1959. Kenneth Price studied ceramics with

Peter Voulkos Peter Voulkos (born Panagiotis Harry Voulkos; 29 January 1924 – 16 February 2002) was an American artist of Greek descent. He is known for his abstract expressionist ceramic sculptures, which crossed the traditional divide between ceramic ...

at Otis and was awarded a Tamarind Fellowship. He is best known for his abstract shapes constructed from fired clay. Typically, they are not glazed, but intricately painted with multiple layers of bright acrylic paint and then sanded down to reveal the colors beneath. Ken Price lived and worked in

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and

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Biography

Early life

Price was born February 16, 1935, and raised in

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, Los Angeles, California. in 1937 when Price was approximately two years old, his family moved into a trailer on Santa Monica Beach for two years, next to Marion Davies's home, while building a new house in Pacific Palisades. In 1949, Price began at University High School, at which time he took up surfing. In 1952 while at University High, Price received a scholarship to attend Chouinard Art Institute (now California Institute of the Arts), where he took classes in life drawing and cartooning taught by Tee He. Price's earliest aspirations were to be an artist, "As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be an artist. Even when I was a kid I would make drawings and little books, and

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s..," he states. Price enrolled in his first art ceramics course at

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in 1954, where he quickly embraced a formal craft tradition as espoused by

Marguerite Wildenhain Marguerite Wildenhain, née Marguerite Friedlaender and alternative spelling ''Friedländer'' (October 11, 1896 – February 24, 1985), was an American Bauhaus-trained ceramic artist, educator and author. After immigrating to the United States in ...

. He subsequently studied at the

in Los Angeles, before receiving his BFA degree from the

in 1956. As a student at USC, Price spent time visiting the ceramics studio at the

where ceramic artist

was teaching. Price has often cited Voulkos as his strongest single influence as a student. After finishing his degree at USC, Price spent a portion of the next year as a graduate student at Otis. There he studied (under Voulkos) with Billy Al Bengston, John Mason, Mike Frimkess,

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, Henry Takemoto and Jerry Rothman. Price writes about the group at Otis: "We've been cited as the people who broke away from the crafts hierarchy and substituted so-called 'total freedom!' Actually we were a group of people who were committed to clay as a material and wanted to use it in ways that had something to do with our time and place."Price, Ken. "Personal Influences." ''Ceramics Monthly'' (September 1994) p. 31. In 1958, Price left Otis for

(with a six-month detour in the

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). "I went to Alfred to try and develop some low-fire, brightly colored glazes, but also to try and get away from the influence of Voulkos, which was very strong on me."Price, Ken. "A Talk with Slides." ''Chinati Foundation Newsletter.'' (October 2005) p. 24. During his time at Alfred, Price was able to formulate some of the glazes he desired, using a lead base. In 1959, Price returned to Los Angeles having received an MFA in Ceramics from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University.

Mid career

Price describes Los Angeles upon his return and the beginnings of the L.A. art scene: "When I started out in L.A. in the late fifties there was no art scene at all really. I mean there was an art scene in New York, but there wasn't one in L.A. There were hardly any galleries. The museum was downtown and it didn't endorse

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. And there were only about three viable art publications. The local newspaper critics didn't like us at all. There weren't any collectors, really very few. We made few sales, and for little money when we made them. But the people I knew were totally committed. And so was I. I was confused about a lot of things at that time, but not about being an artist. I knew that's what I had to be. And then later, around the mid-sixties, the whole scene cooked up: galleries, museums, foundations, art schools, and you know, lots more artists." Price's first solo show came at the

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in 1960 where he quickly became part of a developing art movement that included artists such as Larry Bell, Billy Al Bengston,

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, John McCracken, Robert Irwin and

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, among many others. Price would have three solo shows during the short time Ferus was open, and by the mid-1960s Price was a fixture in the west coast art scene. Aside from six months Price spent in Japan in 1962, Price would remain in Los Angeles until 1970, when he and his wife, Happy, relocated to

.Price, Ken. Interview with Mark Rosenthal, ed. ''Artists at Gemini G.E.L.: Celebrating the 25th Year.'' (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1993) p. 130. Price's second solo museum exhibition was in 1978 at LACMA, where he presented the project that had consumed him for six years, Happy's Curios (1972–77), named in honor of his wife Happy. This was a room size installation made up of several wood cabinets with open shelves filled with highly colored glazed ceramic pots, plates, bowls, and cups that owed its inspiration to Mexican folk pottery. As Price's career developed he began using a different approach to finishing his ceramic sculptures. In 1983, Price and his wife moved to coastal Massachusetts, where they stayed for the next eight years. The move coincided with a massive shift in Price's work that would last until the end of his career, the move from glazes to acrylic paint. The technique Price began to develop during this period involved priming the fired ceramic sculpture with more than a dozen layers of acrylic paint. In 1991 After the Exhibition, ''Finish Fetish: L.A.'s Cool School'', at Fisher Gallery at University of Southern California, several professors encourage Price to join the faculty. He becomes a professor of ceramics at USC where he teaches for 10 years. During that time back in Los Angeles, his son, Jackson, began to work with him in the studio, and Price experimented with using a cloth or cotton swab soaked in alcohol to work through layers of paint. This technique allowed for a blurred effect that achieved a new type of smoothness to the work. In the late 1990s, Price refined his technique still further, beginning to dry sand his acrylic painted surfaces. A technique he borrowed from the surfboard workshop according to Dave Hickey. Price was known to apply as many as a hundred layers of paint to a piece, in up to seven different colors.

Late career

In 2001 Price became professor emeritus at USC. In 2002 Price and Happy returned permanently to Taos, where they built a studio attached to their home. In 2007 Price was diagnosed with cancer. After treatments in Los Angeles, he returned to Taos. “Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective” bears the unique distinction of being the final show the artist helped plan. During his last two and a half years, before his death in February 2012 at age 77, Price contributed extensively to preparations for the show, which was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and designed by

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, the artist's friend since the 1960s. In 2010, Price and his son Jackson opened Studio B, where they began to make much larger work. In 2011 Price was awarded the USC Faculty Lifetime Achievement Award. Ken Price died on February 24, 2012 at his home in Taos, New Mexico. In September 2012, Price was the subject of a 50-year retrospective opening at the

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and traveling to the

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and the

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. In honor of the artist, the museum has displayed his 2011 piece "Zizi" in the lobby of its Ahmanson Building. “Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective” bears the unique distinction of being the final show the artist helped to plan. During his last two and a half years, before his death in February 2012 at age 77, Price contributed extensively to preparations for the show, which was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and designed by

, the artist's friend since the 1960s. In September 2013, Price was also the subject of a works on paper retrospective titled 'Slow and Steady Wins the Race, Works on Paper, 1962–2010' at the

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, Drawing Center, and the

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. His work is held in the permanent collections of several museums, including the

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, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the

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, the

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, the

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, and the

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Selected one-person exhibitions

1960 *Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles 1961 *Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles 1964 *Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles 1968 *Kasmin Gallery, London 1969 *Kenneth Price Cups, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York *Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles 1970 *Kasmin Gallery, London *Ken Price: Figurine Cups, Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles (catalogue) 1971 *David Whitney Gallery, New York. Traveled to Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles; Galerie Neuendorf, Cologne, Germany; and Galerie Neuendorf, Hamburg, Germany 1972 *Fendrick Gallery, Washington D.C. *Ken Price: Interior Series, Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles (brochure) 1973 *Galerie Neuendorf, Hamburg, Germany *Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles 1976 *Ken Price, The Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri *James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles 1978 *Ken Price: Happy's Curios, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (catalogue) *Gallery of Contemporary Art, Taos, New Mexico 1979 *Cups, Plates, and Drawings, Texas Gallery, Houston *Hansen-Fuller Gallery, San Francisco *Willard Gallery, New York 1980 *Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago *Kenneth Price: Architectural Cups 1972–1974, Visual Arts Museum, New York *Ceramic Sculptures, Texas Gallery, Houston *Ken Price: Selections from Happy's Curios, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston *James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles 1982 *Images and Objects: Works by Kenneth Price, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California *Willard Gallery, New York *James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles 1983 *Ken Price, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York 1984 *New Ceramics, Texas Gallery, Houston 1985 *Willard Gallery, New York, New York *Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago 1986 *Willard Gallery, New York, New York *Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco 1987 *James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles 1989 *Ken Price, The Greenberg Gallery, St Louis, Missouri. Traveled to Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, and Georges Lavrov Gallery, Paris (catalogue) 1990 *Sena West Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico 1991 *James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles 1992 *Ken Price, The Menil Collection, Houston (catalogue) *Ken Price Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota *James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles *Ken Price, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York 1994 *Ken Price: Ceramic Sculpture & Drawings, Harwood Foundation Museum of the University of New Mexico, Taos, New Mexico *Recent Sculpture, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, California *Ken Price: Career Survey, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York 1995 *Ken Price: A Selected Survey 1960–1995, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, Pennsylvania (catalogue) 1996 *Ken Price: Geometric Works 1972–1983, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York *Ken Price, L.A. Louver, Venice, California 1997 *Ken Price: New Work, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, California *Ken Price, Johnson County Community College Gallery of Art, Overland Park, Kansas (brochure) *Ken Price: Recent Work, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York (catalogue) 1998 *Ken Price, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York *Ken Price: Selected Sketches and Drawings of Early Cups and Geometric Sculptures, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York *Ken Price_Sculpture, April 30-June 6, Hill Gallery Birmingham, Michigan 1999 *Ken Price, May 13 - June 19, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, California *Ken Price: Works on Paper, 1966–1991, 871 Fine Arts, San Francisco *Ken Price: Sculptures and Drawings, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico 2000 *Ken Price: Lumps, Bumps, Eggs, and Specimens: Works from the 1960s, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York 2001 *Ken Price: New Work, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York (catalogue) *Ken Price: New Work, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, California *Ken Price: Recent Drawings, Off Main Gallery, Santa Monica, California *Recent Sculpture, Klein Art Works, Chicago 2002 *Ken Price: New Work, Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, Ohio *Ken Price: Small is Beautiful, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, California (catalogue) *Ken Price, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, California 2003 *Ken Price, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York 2004 *Ken Price: Works on Paper, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York *Ken Price Sculpture and Drawings 1994–2004, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas *Ken Price: Sculpture, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, California 2005 *Ken Price: Works on Paper, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, California *Ken Price: Selected Work, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, California *Ken Price: Small Scale Sculpture, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico *Ken Price Sculpture from 2004, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, California 2006 *Ken Price: Early Cups and Related Works on Paper, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York (catalogue) *Ken Price, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue) 2007 *Ken Price: New Work, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels *Ken Price: Sculpture, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York 2008 *Ken Price: Prints and Ceramics, 1970 - 2005, Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl, New York *Ken Price: Works from the Late '80s, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York (catalogue) *Ken Price, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, California 2009 *The Art Show 2009: Ken Price, Matthew Marks Gallery at the Armory, New York 2010 *Ken Price, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York *Ken Price: Collected Writings and Ephemera, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York *Ken Price: Sculpture and Drawings, Nyehaus, New York 2012-13 *Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective, LACMA; travels to Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (catalogue)

Museum collections

, Buffalo, NY * Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM *

American Craft Museum The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), based in Manhattan, New York City, collects, displays, and interprets objects that document contemporary and historic innovation in craft, art, and design. In its exhibitions and educational programs, the mus ...

, New York, NY *

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, Chicago, IL *

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, Corpus Christi, TX *

Carnegie Museum of Art The Carnegie Museum of Art, is an art museum in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Originally known as the Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute and was at what is now the Main Branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsbur ...

, Pittsburgh, PA *

Cincinnati Art Museum The Cincinnati Art Museum is an art museum in the Eden Park neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. Founded in 1881, it was the first purpose-built art museum west of the Alleghenies, and is one of the oldest in the United States. Its collection of ov ...

, Cincinnati, OH *

Crocker Art Museum The Crocker Art Museum is the oldest art museum in the Western United States, located in Sacramento, California. Founded in 1885, the museum holds one of the premier collections of Californian art. The collection includes American works dating f ...

, Sacramento, CA *

Dallas Museum of Art The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) is an art museum located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas, along Woodall Rodgers Freeway between St. Paul and Harwood. In the 1970s, the museum moved from its previous location in Fair Park to the Art ...

, Dallas, TX *

Denver Art Museum The Denver Art Museum (DAM) is an art museum located in the Civic Center of Denver, Colorado. With encyclopedic collections of more than 70,000 diverse works from across the centuries and world, the DAM is one of the largest art museums between t ...

, Denver, CO *

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, Syracuse, NY *

, Taos, NM *

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is an art museum beside the National Mall, in Washington, D.C., the United States. The museum was initially endowed during the 1960s with the permanent art collection of Joseph H. Hirshhorn. It was des ...

, Washington, D.C. *

Lannan Foundation The Lannan Literary Awards are a series of awards and literary fellowships given out in various fields by the Lannan Foundation. Established in 1989, the awards are meant "to honor both established and emerging writers whose work is of exceptional ...

, Los Angeles, CA *

Menil Collection The Menil Collection, located in Houston, Texas, refers either to a museum that houses the art collection of founders John de Menil and Dominique de Menil, or to the collection itself of approximately 17,000 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawing ...

, Houston, TX *

, New York, NY *

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, Minneapolis, MN *

Mint Museum The Mint Museum, also referred to as The Mint Museums, is a cultural institution comprising two museums, located in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Mint Museum Randolph and Mint Museum Uptown, together these two locations have hundreds of collection ...

, Charlotte, NC *

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, CA *

, New York, NY *Museum Overholland, Nieuwersluis, Netherlands *

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, Washington, D.C. *

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, Kansas City, MO *

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, Oakland, CA *

Philadelphia Museum of Art The Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMoA) is an art museum originally chartered in 1876 for the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. The main museum building was completed in 1928 on Fairmount, a hill located at the northwest end of the Benjamin Fr ...

, Philadelphia, PA *

Renwick Gallery The Renwick Gallery is a branch of the Smithsonian American Art Museum located in Washington, D.C. that displays American craft and decorative arts from the 19th to 21st century. The gallery is housed in a National Historic Landmark building that ...

, Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C. * Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI *

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, St. Louis, MO *

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, San Francisco, CA * Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA * Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art, Alfred University, Alfred, NY *

Seattle Art Museum The Seattle Art Museum (commonly known as SAM) is an art museum located in Seattle, Washington, United States. It operates three major facilities: its main museum in downtown Seattle; the Seattle Asian Art Museum (SAAM) in Volunteer Park on Cap ...

, Seattle, WA *

Speed Art Museum The Speed Art Museum, originally known as the J.B. Speed Memorial Museum, now colloquially referred to as the Speed by locals, is the oldest and largest art museum in Kentucky. It was established in 1927 in Louisville, Kentucky on Third Street ...

, Louisville, KY *

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, London, England *

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, Minneapolis, MN *

, New York, NY *

Worcester Art Museum The Worcester Art Museum, also known by its acronym WAM, houses over 38,000 works of art dating from antiquity to the present day and representing cultures from all over the world. WAM opened in 1898 in Worcester, Massachusetts, and ranks among th ...

, Worcester, MA

References

Additional sources

* Los Angeles County Museum of Art, ''Robert Irwin―Kenneth Price'', Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 1966. * Price, Kenneth, ''Ken Price'', Houston, Texas, Menil Collection, Houston Fine Art Press, 1992. * Price, Kenneth, ''Ken Price, Happy's Curios", Los Angeles, The Museum, 1978. * University of California, Irvine, ''Five Los Angeles Sculptors: Larry Bell, Tony DeLap, David Gray, John McCracken, Kenneth Price'', University of California, Irvine, 1966 {{DEFAULTSORT:Price, Kenneth 1935 births 2012 deaths American ceramists American potters American contemporary artists Art in Greater Los Angeles Artists from Los Angeles People from Venice, Los Angeles People from Taos, New Mexico New York State College of Ceramics alumni Santa Monica College alumni USC Roski School of Fine Arts alumni 20th-century American sculptors 20th-century American male artists 21st-century American sculptors 21st-century American male artists American male sculptors 20th-century American printmakers Sculptors from California 21st-century ceramists Chouinard Art Institute alumni