Seth Price
Seth Price (born 1973 in East Jerusalem) is a New York-based multi-disciplinary post-conceptual artist known for his theoretical writings and vacuum-shaped plastic relief paintings that investigate the field of contemporary art within new media distribution systems.[1]
Art work
In general, his work is concerned with the principle of mutability and the appropriation of cultural consumerism. He is concerned with a redistribution[2] of sound, music, and written texts. Thus Price engages in strategies of appropriation, recirculation and packaging so as to consider issues of cultural production and the distribution of information. Shifting and manipulating the detritus of commodity culture, his projects have included early sampler-based academic music, anonymous Internet-circulated video, and art historical imagery.
Price makes digital paintings (most notably, his Calendar Paintings series from 2003-04), videos, writes art essays distributed as free PDF files on the internet and ceates vacuum-formed reliefs, freezing things like rope.[3] He also has presented numerous noise music and audio art works[4] as well as hanging fabric pieces that resemble mail envelopes that are fabricated by garment manufacturers. But Price makes frequent pivots between materials based on his work as a new media art theorist. This pivot strategy is summed up by Price as follows: "Sometimes it’s good to go forward and then double back, and circle around again. To those who turned their feet around so that their tracks would confuse their pursuers: why not walk backward?".[5]
Exhibitions
Seth Price is represented by Friedrich Petzel Gallery in New York.[6] He was exhibited in the 2002 and 2008 Whitney Biennials,[7] at the Venice Biennale in 2011 and in Documenta 13 in 2012.
References
External links
- Distributed History: Seth Price's website with his texts
- ICA Exhibition Clips Seth Price's 8-4 9-5 10-6 11-7 free download from the Dispersion exhibition
- Seth Price's audio art works at Ubuweb
- Seth Price's image website