Exhibited Work
Granny’s Fruit Bowl (Cairn)
This image subverts a quintessentially vintage symbol of home life. Granny’s Fruit Bowl may suggest nostalgia, comfort, warmth, and the ‘good old days’. Especially in the case of mid-century kitchen decor, where fruit was widely used as a motif, particularly as plaster reliefs, or chalkware. This still life is a starkly contemporary interpretation of the genre, where fruit is hazardously stacked as a cairn – looking both succulent and precarious.
49″ x 27″ Photographic print on watercolor paper
Selected for The Meaning of Home Exhibition, 2026
THE Gallery, Belvedere Tiburon Library, Tiburon CA
Flowers and Floorboards: Bringing the Outside In
This work is about considering the outdoors as part of the indoors, making the natural world part of the constructed environment is a simple as gathering flowers from the garden. The work asks us to reflect on the transience of natural color, as compared with the chemical stains and treatments we apply to our homes.
30″ x 30″ Photographic print on aluminum substrate
Selected for The Meaning of Home Exhibition, 2026
THE Gallery, Belvedere Tiburon Library, Tiburon CA
Up the Wooden Hill to Bedfordshire
Drawing on the nostalgic phrase “up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire”, a childhood saying first used in a letter to The Morning Advertiser in 1856, it is a British idiom for going upstairs to bed. The words conjure up a more innocentt time, redolent of the yearning for home. In this image, the ‘wooden hill’ is made modern – with warm neutral tones of blond wood, flat planes, and graduated shafts of light. The staircase curves intriguingly to the left, the destination is hidden and can only be guessed at.
49″ x 20.5″ Photographic print on watercolor paper
Selected for The Meaning of Home Exhibition, 2026
THE Gallery, Belvedere Tiburon Library, Tiburon CA
Marmite
A savory spread invented in 1902. Its prominence in British culture is such that Marmite is often used as a metaphor for something that’s an acquired taste or polarizes opinion. This complex product is reduced to simplified shapes in the some of the sizes available.
24″ x 36″ Ink on aluminum
Selected for Art and Mass Culture Exhibition, 2026
THE Gallery, Belvedere Tiburon Library, Tiburon CA
Spectral Blur
My recent work transforms images into bold blocks of color, while retaining some of the integrity of the original form. Here an image from nature is abstracted to suggest shapes and colors to make a contemplative whole.
36″ x 36″ Ink on aluminum
Selected for Abstracting Nature Exhibition, 2026
THE Gallery, Belvedere Tiburon Library, Tiburon, CA, USA
Greening
The work Greening examines the subjugation of nature by the built world, and looks at the evidence that nature will not be subjugated and always fights back.
31.5″ x 40″ acrylic on canvas, applied photograph and electrical tape, black print on clear overlay, paper cut-outs.
Selected for Changing World Exhibition, 2025
Belvedere Tiburon Library Gallery, Tiburon, CA
Escalating
In this image, repetition is employed as a key element of the work – isolating each grouping in white space to define the colors. Graphic shapes take on different personalities by means of strong color contrasts.
30″ x 30″ Ink on aluminum
Selected for Colors in Art: Voices Soft and Loud Exhibition, 2024
Belvedere Tiburon Library Gallery, Tiburon, CA
Bridge
Some of my recent work is based on original photography, transforming images into shapes and color blocks, while maintaining the photographic elements. The image Bridge was inspired by a sense of mystery, and the lasting impression of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
11” x 14” Photographic print on watercolor paper
Selected for Lasting Images Exhibition, 2023
Belvedere Tiburon Library Gallery, Tiburon, CA
In the Navy (The Young Harvey Milk)
My inspiration was the work and politics of Harvey Milk. As an artist and graphic designer, originally from the UK, I wanted to create something that encapsulated this, and pay tribute to his remarkable life. There were no openly gay politicians in Britain during the 1970s, so Harvey Milk’s example led me to reimagine what was possible.
Referencing a vintage hand-colored print, the piece is a celebration of the young Harvey Milk who served in the US Navy as a diving officer from 1951 to 1955. The witty rainbow life-saver border is superimposed on words and ideas that reflect political motivators of the man, as well as hard-won freedoms that we endeavor to retain to this day.
30″ x 30″ Ink on aluminum
Selected for the de Young Open Exhibition, 2020
San Francisco, CA
Who Needs a Soapbox in These Heels?
The artist’s drawings of a mid-century mannequin’s foot were screen printed by hand in pop art colors. These limited-edition screen prints recall Wayne Boring’s illustrations of Lois Lane in Superman, as well as the legs of Baby Herman’s mother in the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
66” x 30” Triptych, silkscreened images on watercolor paper
Selected for the Windows for Harvey Exhibition, 2019
San Francisco, CA
More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness
Seeing is Disbelieving
Over the past century, a period of unprecedented technological change and global social upheaval, once agreed-upon beliefs, or “truths,” have been cast into doubt, changing and shaping our understanding and experience of reality. More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness featured work by 28 of today’s most accomplished and promising international artists, including Ai Weiwei, Vik Muniz and Thomas Demand, who explore our shifting experience of reality.
Ian Price appears in the exhibition video installation, directed by Jonn Herschend.
Video installation
More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness, 2013
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN