About This Lesson
The exhibition, Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective, presents more than one hundred works, a number of which were created in Los Angeles and exhibited at the LACMA. This retrospective charts the late artist’s fifty-year career, a tireless inquiry into the medium of sculpture that challenged preconceived notions about clay. Price’s inventive use of clay—which traditionally had been defined as a “craft” material for creating pottery or handheld, utilitarian objects—expanded conceptions of sculpture and, to an extent, painting as well.
