Sugar Fractures, 2015. 80 handmade slides in slide carousel monitor with audio tape, 15 1/2 x 12 3/4 x 12 3/4 inches (39.4 x 32.4 x 32.4 cm) (Individual slides, 1.5 x 1.5 inches)
Obsessive Immortals, 2015. 35mm slides, acrylic paint and varnish on canvas, 12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Light Fracture, 2013. Digital c-print (printed 2015), 15 x 22 1/2 inches (38.1 x 57.2 cm)
Meat II, 1999-2012. 80 handmade slides in 1 slide carousel projection, projection dimensions variable (individual slides, 1.5 x 1.5 inches)
Eat Fuck Live Shit Want Need: Sitting Figure 2, 1985. Chicken wire, fiberglass, resin and paper, 69 x 36 x 29 1/5 inches (175.3 x 91.4 x 74.2 cm)
Luther Price (1962–2020) lived and worked in Revere, MA. He studied Sculpture and Media/Performing Arts at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (BFA, 1987). His work in film, performance, and installation has been shown extensively, nationally and internationally. Price has had solo exhibitions at Callicoon Fine Arts, New York, NY; the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Cambridge, MA; Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL; Participant Inc., New York, NY; and Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY. His films have been screened at the Chicago Underground Film Festival in Chicago; Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany; the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN; The Kitchen in New York, NY; the Wecner Center for the Arts in Columbus, OH; the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, CA; and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, NY, among many other venues. His work was included in the 2012 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, NY. In 2013, he was a finalist for the James and Audrey Foster Prize at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Boston. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; and Massachussets Institute of Technology, Cambridge.
Luther Price, an experimental filmmaker and performance artist known for his radical contributions to underground queer cinema, died on Saturday, June 13th, in Revere, Massachusetts, at the age of 58.
One More Time is a group exhibition including Price's work alongside Gabrielle Rossmer and Sonya Gropman. This show expands on the work Rossmer + Gropman did in their cookbook, The German-Jewish Cookbook. In this show, objects are examined — specifically food-related objects — and how they offer continuity + connection across time and place. In this case, these are objects that were brought by the Rossmer family when they emigrated from Germany to the U.S. in the 1930s. Here they are explored in three different mediums — sculpture, paint, and film — by each artist.
Sorry (2005–12), a video by Luther Price, is included in "What is Contemporary Art?": a free course provided by MoMA over six weeks. Price's work can be found in Week 4.
James Hansen from Oberlin College will host a presentation entitled "Luther Price, Autobiogriffure."
Breaking Wave is a benefit exhibition at Participant INC, opening November 4th, that celebrates the 16th anniversary of the space. There will be an online auction via Paddle8.
Under a Dismal Boston Skyline will open September 13th, 6–8pm, at Stone Gallery, 855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA. Under a Dismal Boston Skyline examines the city as witness to intensely concentrated moments of artistic experimentation over the last several decades. The exhibition reexamines a group of practitioners working in the late 1970s and 1980s, collectively known as the Boston School. Considering resonances between this group and other iconoclastic artists working outside of Boston’s culturally conservative mainstream, the exhibition connects the Boston School to other artists in the city who have set their own terms for art, life, and community.
(S8) Mostra Internacional de Cinema Periférico is held annually in the city of A Coruña, and focuses on avant-garde cinema and contemporary filmmaking.
Luther Price: I want to be to the truth
Program 1: Thursday, June 1, 4:30 pm in Room (S8) PALEXCO
Program 2: Friday, June 2, 4pm in Room (S8) PALEXCO
Light Fractures exhibition: PALEXCO Exhibition Hall
Flesh Fractures features selections from Price's most recent series of 35mm slides, Sugar Fractures, alongside two carousels from his 2012 series Utopia, and two carousels from his 2015 series Meat Chapter 3, the third chapter in Price's ongoing, multimedia series, Meat. This exhibition is co-sponsored by Mana Contemporary and The Chicago Underground Film Festival (CUFF). Luther Price’s work appears courtesy of the artist, Callicoon Fine Arts, and Anthology Film Archives. On Saturday June 4th, CUFF will screen two recent Anthology Film Archives' digital restorations of his classic Super 8 films, Clown (1992/2003) and A (1995). The films will screen at the Logan Theater on June 4th at 8pm.
