Mark Price at studio:christensen

According to artist Mark Price his artwork, “I guess it is collage but it’s from editions that I’ve been screen printing. The screen prints are from ink drawings and also design elements composited into these environments. Yeah, kind of revisiting all this material that you generate when you do screen printing, it’s a fast process as far as the hand printing goes, and as I was doing the editions, you know, I would give some away, but I still had a bunch left over. And started doing this thing of slicing them and with one single edition, collaging them, it almost feels like a stuttering of the image.  Or if you’re driving and the elongation of the landscape, like a pause repeated over and over.”

Mark Price at studio:christensen

“This is the first time I’ve tried working with an edition as material as opposed to it being the end point.  It kind of reactivated how I was like thinking about it, like, ‘Oh man, this feels like it leaves the process a lot more open, like now the work is finished, the relationship with it is closed.  It was always like I enjoyed the process but once you get to the end instead of having an image that is clear one moment, to have an image that’s fragments of this memory or this other experience.  It’s all there but it’s like kind of fractured, or it’s like I remember it one way but it’s just this specific detail of it.”

Mark Price at studio:christensen

The odd shapes of the artworks is intriguing, really breaking the bounds of the picture plane.  “I think that was a way to relieve the process, like the piece is still moving and the idea of, ‘Is this where the image ends or should I continue’. And also with abandoning 90 degree angles and the rigidness of it puts it in a place where it’s moving through three dimensional space.”

Mark Price at studio:christensen

DoN commented to Mark that the art seems to glow from behind, the pieces are mounted away from the wall with pins, and wondered if the pastel glow was intentional? Mark Price said, “Well, it’s like collaging onto this material that has a fluorescence so it’s not so heavy, it’s like this thing that’s just hovering.  And with the drop shadow projecting a color it makes it different. I’m glad you picked that up.”

Joyce Chan at studio:christensen

There’s a couple large monochromatic patterned paintings in the gallery by Joyce Chan, DoN didn’t get to meet her, but the pairing of her quiet abstractions with Mark Price‘s vivid collage creates a kind of conversation between the artwork each speaking a similar but different language.

The studio/gallery/boutique on South 20th Street changes almost daily with pop-up shops by Hy/Lo, new aspirational furnishings, fashion shoots, art lectures and social events that there is always something new to see and desire.

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Written and photographed by DoN Brewer