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Ken Price

Red

Maker

Ken Price (American, 1935-2012)

Title

Red

Year

1961

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

wood, clay products, paint

Dimensions

37.8 x 43.2 x 41.3 cm (14 7/8 x 17 x 16 1/4 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

unsigned

Credit / Object Number

Credit

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

Object Number

71.062

Type

Publications

Exhibition History

What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present
Sep 19, 2014 – Jan 04, 2015

Label copy

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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Tombstone

Ken Price (American, 1935-2012)
Red, 1961
Ceramic, paint, and wood
37.8 x 43.2 x 41.3 cm (14 7/8 x 17 x 16 1/4 inches)
Museum purchase with the aid of the National Endowment for the Arts 71.062

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