The sculptor Ken Price (1935-2012) is taking a long time New York thanks to splendid surveys of his sculpture in ceramic radiant color at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and his various works on paper in the center of the drawing. There's a third show, small and peculiar, that should not be missed in the Franklin Parrasch Gallery, whose price's 1994 exhibition began a streak of seven shows again until 2003, when Matthew marks Gallery began to represent the price of work.
Combine objects and works on paper, especially since the 1960's, "Zoo", as this show 23-work loan is appropriately subtitled, examines care price of reptiles, amphibians and other nonmammals, particularly snails and tree frogs but also turtles and lizards, as subjects and as inspiration for his art. The show also highlights the power of suggestive shapes, sex and regeneration which, however abstracted, runs through almost all the work of price. For this reason, "Zoo" a great starting point for larger performances. It includes the first of their glasses of snail, a glass of 1965 in Orange deep a form of palette which fixes a small ceramic snail purchased. For another Cup of a frog, this made by the artist - seems to be fitting with the Hill on which the Cup rests while also serving as an identifier.
In detailed studies of the color of their cups titles, price stipulated species: poison arrow and Chinese frogs and turtles. But a drawing of the unusually phallic "Von Bayros snail cups" less by nature that is inspired by the work of Franz von Bayros (1866-1924), an Austrian artist specialising in erotic images that was equally inspired by these creatures without shell.