in search of opens June 8, 2022 at TAG Gallery, 5458 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036. TAG is open 1pm-7pm, Wed-Sun
I see ...something...I want to make a picture. I have been at “it” since early childhood. Currently, I am inspired by my memories, live models, chairs, phrases of the day, anger, photographs of people or patterns, or bad news. I search for forms that interest my eye or my heart. I love color. A friend summarized my work thus: Memory, Family, Color, Form.
I approach each painting with creative destruction: changing and turning objects, figures and symbols into complex color fields. Try, and again...and again…until some resulting pattern of shape and color pleases my eye: being (in some way) "balanced”, large to small, dark to light, intense ...but not all over. They start as some “thing”, they grow and finish as color and shape puzzles.
I have been influenced by my favorite artists and teachers: Picasso, Bonnard, Schiele, De Kooning, Joseph Blaustein, and David Valentine. From them I learn, and re-learn, color, shape, line, intensity, placement and having a sense of humor about my work...or is that last part ...all mine?
About the Artist: Susan Price studied art formally since 1963: drawing, painting, sculpture...at Pitzer College, UCLA, UCLA Extension and private workshops. She is a member of the Los Angeles Art Association/Gallery 825, Women Painters West, FIG Gallery, TAG Gallery.
About the Gallery: TAG is a fine art gallery located on Museum Row in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1993, the gallery represents award-winning contemporary Southern California artists working in all mediums and styles.