Tony Price (artist)
Tony Price (1937–2000) was a junk artist, painter, sculptor,[1] self-styled "Atomic Artist" and outspoken anti-nuclear activist.
Early life
Price was a born in Brooklyn, New York, who spent some time in the Marine Corps. Leaving New York in 1957, he traveled extensively, before arriving in Santa Fe in 1965.[1]
Nuclear art
After visiting Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1967 and discovering their salvage yard, he began to create utilitarian objects such as chairs and tables and musical instruments, especially wind chimes and gongs, out of their discarded scraps. He later moved on to creating sculptures, and his most famous works are a group of primitive-inspired masks created out of scrap metal, many of them based on Hopi kachinas.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The New burgh Beacon Evening News Art depicts a nuclear nightmare April 14, 1987. Retrieved August 2011