Nick Ryan Gallery is pleased to present Polyphony, a solo exhibition by the incomparable Bruce Price. Polyphony, defined by the Oxford English Dictionary, is 'The combination of several different patterns of musical notes sung or played together to form a single piece of music.' Price’s work mirrors the complexity of polyphonic music through his incorporation of intricate patterns, both painted and repurposed from fabrics, and complex color compositions that cause the paintings and works on paper to vibrate and dance to the eye. Throughout his career, Price has investigated concepts of ornamentation, patterning, materialism, space, and chaotic order, as evidenced by his work.
Bruce Price is an artist residing in Denver, CO. Former Director of the Institute for Experimental Studies & founding resident advisor at Redline/Denver. Price holds a BFA in painting from Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design and an MFA in interdisciplinary studies from Maine College of Art. With 20 years of teaching foundations & fine arts in higher education, Price brings an exhibition history with solo exhibitions in New York and Denver including a solo exhibition at the Denver Art Museum. Mr. Price's work has been collected internationally with works in several museum collections.
" If the space of a painting embodies the conceptual space of a cultural era these works looks to produce spatial paradoxes and contradictions within a complex space of multiple forces.
Complexity is the study of emergent phenomena focused on the system of forces, both physical and non-physical, interacting in multiple ways to produce sensations, perceptions, and concepts. Paintings are bodies understood as both producing and being produced by those forces.
These paintings began with a compositional structure derived by overlapping a flatornamental pattern with the same pattern in perspective mashing up different (opposing?) kinds of painting spaces to produce complexity. This compositional strategy provides a structural force that brings together a multiplicity forces in a relational field that are more than the sum of there parts."
Bruce Price
