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Ken Price

Red, 1961

Description

Maker

Title

Red

Year

1961

Medium

Ceramic, paint, and wood

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Dimensions

37.8 x 43.2 x 41.3 cm (14 7/8 x 17 x 16 3/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

unsigned

Type

Credit

Museum purchase with the aid of the National Endowment for the Arts

Object Number

71.062

Projects & Publications

Publications

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present

September 19, 2014 - January 4, 2015

In the 1960s, Ken Price (American, 1935–2012) took a particularly biomorphic turn with his series of luridly erotic “eggs.” Painted with bold, fantastical colors, an egg’s shell is merely the outer aspect of an object with a rich inner world suggested by protuberances emerging from apertures cut into the form. The idea of an inner world permeating or transgressing an outer one recurs throughout Funk art, and is akin to the relationship between the personal and the public.

Price committed himself to working with clay after studying for a year with Peter Voulkos at the Los Angeles County Art Institute.

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