Seth Price

Petzel Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition by New York based artist Seth Price, Drawings: Studies for Works 2000-2015. This is his fifth solo exhibition with the gallery.

Although best known for his sculpture, video, and writing, Price has always made drawings and studies as a way to explore ideas developed in other mediums. Curator Achim Hochdörfer has selected a group of these rarely seen art works for exhibition at Petzel’s new gallery uptown.

The show spans more than fifteen years, and encompasses media and materials that range from airbrush, charcoal, watercolor, and spray-paint, to polymer compounds, fabric, and thermo-formed plastic. Among the works on display are renderings of Depression-era landscapes produced as studies for Price’s calendar paintings; hand-painted plastic maquettes for his mylar sculptures; graffiti-marker on shrink-wrapped palettes; cartoons later reproduced large-scale on vacuum-formed plastic sculptures; paintings on wood executed as tests for his envelope wall pieces; and research notes for an apocalyptic, Evangelical, sci-fi novel.

A catalogue published by Petzel Gallery, New York and Koenig Books, London will be available. Designed by Eric Wrenn, the catalogue features 120 images and is annotated by the artist.

Seth Price was born in 1973 in East Jerusalem, Palestine, where he lived until he was three. He received a BA from Brown University, where he studied literature and political science. Price began making art in 2000 and had his first solo exhibition in 2004. Since then he has exhibited widely at venues that include Documenta 13, the Biennale di Venezia, and the Kunsthalle Zurich. His novel, "Fuck Seth Price,” will be published in May 2015 by Leopard Press.