Since the early 2000s, artist Seth Price has produced a diverse body of work that interrogates contemporary visual culture. Employing both traditional art media and materials often used in industrial production, Price explores the nature of authorship, identity, and our shifting relationship to images in an increasingly digital and globalized world.
The Aspen Art Museum’s exhibition highlights two painting series from Price’s expansive oeuvre: his vacuum formed Knot Paintings, begun in 2009—including several important polystyrene reliefs that have never before been exhibited in the United States—and the more recent Social Space series, which portrays printed images of computer-modeled objects and employ poured resins and hand-applied polymer compounds.
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