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LUMINOUS: New Paintings from the Studio of Liz Price
April 28 - June 10, 2023
Liz Price makes paintings that are focused on how color, light, and the viscous materiality of paint are wedded within strong composition to create paintings that glow. Her work is a testament to the tenacity and single-minded vision of a true painter’s painter.
Price uses still life, a classic foundational structure, as a point of departure. She sets up an arrangement—draped, patterned fabric; plants in ceramic pots; a piece of fruit; all on a table or stand. A historical painter’s device. From here she uses confident brushwork and heightened color to pick out a leaf, a bit of reflected light, the shadow of an object and spread them across the empty painting surface, blowing the trope apart. These fragmented objects come to rest in a strong composition that echoes the original setup but makes the viewer see it through different eyes. It has exploded in lush color and creamy gushes of paint.
-- Emily Steinberg and Merrill Mason, 2023
BIO
Liz Price was born in Louisville, Kentucky and graduated from the University of Louisville in 1981 with an undergraduate degree in sculpture. She lived and worked in New York City for several years before moving to Philadelphia to attend the University of Pennsylvania. There she received a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting in 1988.
Neil Welliver was chairman of the program at the time, while other critics and visiting artists included Rafael Ferrer, William Bailey, Altoon Sultan and Alex Katz. Price paints in a painterly realist tradition, citing influences ranging from Cezanne, Matisse and Vuillard to Richard Diebenkorn, Fairfield Porter, Janet Fish, and Lois Dodd.
EDUCATION
1988 University of Pennsylvania, Master of Fine Arts
1984-85 Columbia University, post-graduate studies in painting and philosophy
1984 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine
1981 University of Louisville, Bachelor of Arts
EXPERIENCE
2005-2012 President, Board of Directors, Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial,
Philadelphia, PA
2007 Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Fellowship, Ballycastle, Ireland
1990-present Art teacher and painting instructor- Fleisher Art Memorial,
Baldwin School, various workshops, and private painting instruction
1987-88 University of Pennsylvania, Teaching Assistant for Edmund Bacon,
History and Theory of Urban Design
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2023 Luminous, solo exhibition, WheelHouse Art, Louisville, KY
2022 Solo exhibition, Cerulean Arts Collective, Philadelphia, PA
2020 Solo exhibition, Cerulean Arts Collective, Philadelphia, PA
2018 The Shape of Flowers, solo exhibition, B. Deemer Gallery, Louisville, KY
2017 Inaugural Exhibition, Cerulean Arts Collective, Philadelphia, PA
2016 Fluid Lucidity a three-person exhibition with Liz Price, Mary
Nomecos, and Gerry Tuten, Cerulean Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2015 A New Beginning, recent paintings, B. Deemer Gallery, Louisville, KY
Selected Paintings, B. Deemer Gallery, Louisville, KY
Third Annual Juried Exhibition, Elizabeth Osborne, Juror, Cerulean Gallery,
Philadelphia, PA
2014 Second Annual Juried Exhibition, Cindi Ettinger, Juror, Cerulean Gallery,
Philadelphia, PA
2013 Sampler: Small Works, curated by Bill Scott, Cerulean Gallery,
Philadelphia, PA
Group Exhibition, Warm Springs Gallery, Warm Springs, VA
2012 Solo Exhibition, Cosmopolitan Club, Philadelphia, PA
2010 Group Exhibition, Warm Springs Gallery, Warm Springs, VA
2007 Summer Group Exhibition, Pennsylvania Art Conservatory, Philadelphia, PA
2006 The Art of Access, Group Exhibition, The Philadelphia Foundation,
Philadelphia, PA
2005 Solo Exhibition, St. Andrew’s School, Middletown, DE
1998 Group Exhibition, Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA
1996 Juried Group Exhibition, William Penn Charter School, Philadelphia, PA
1993 Solo Exhibition, Actors Theater of Louisville, Louisville, KY
1989 Interior/Exterior Group Exhibition, First Street Gallery, New York, NY
Solo Exhibition, Baldwin School, Bryn Mawr, PA
Solo Exhibition, Westtown School, Westtown, PA
1988 First Street Selects, Group Exhibition, First Street Gallery, New York, NY
1987 Solo Exhibition, Shipley School, Bryn Mawr, PA
1986 Solo Exhibition, The Swearingen Gallery, Louisville, KY
Invitational Group Exhibition, Liberty National Bank Gallery, Louisville, KY
ARTIST STATEMENT
As always, I like to put together an elaborate set up to use as a jumping off point for my painting process. I am not as interested in accurate representation as I am in the process of using paint to make some kind of visual alternative. I do like having a visual reference around which to structure the painting, so the marks are not arbitrary. Everything in the painting is a direct response to something seen or experienced. I hope you enjoy these pictorial equivalences, and my exploration of pattern, color, light, and the fluid qualities of paint.
Arts Pick | “A New Beginning" with Liz Price
Elizabeth Kramer
@arts_bureau
Published 9:01 a.m. ET Nov. 19, 2015 | Updated 11:53 p.m. ET Nov. 21, 2015
With temperatures dropping, many of the new paintings in “A New Beginning: Recent Paintings by Liz Price” revels in images related to the warmer seasons. Price’s paintings depict gardens and flowers with broad brush strokes of color.
Price has exhibited in Louisville and extensively in Philadelphia, where she received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania. While she now lives in Philadelphia, she started out as a student at the University of Louisville. She also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine.
But she also is a student of former Bellarmine University professor and artist Bob Lockhart. Her work was included in last year’s “Bobzilla! The Legacy of Bob Lockhart,” a curated exhibit of his former students that was part of a series of shows called “The Untold Tale of Bob Lockhart: A Retrospective.”
