Exhibited Work
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. My recent projects transform images into bold blocks of color, while retaining the integrity of the original form.
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 strong blocks of color, while retaining the integrity of the photographs. 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