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Kenneth Price was born on 16 February, 1935 in Los Angeles, California, US, is an American artist (1935–2021). Discover Kenneth Price's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 77 years old?

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Age 77 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 16 February 1935
Birthday 16 February
Birthplace Los Angeles, California, US
Date of death 24 February, 2012
Died Place Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico, US
Nationality United States

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1935

Kenneth Price (February 16, 1935 – February 24, 2012) was an American artist who predominantly created ceramic sculpture.

Price was born February 16, 1935, and raised in West Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.

1937

in 1937 when Price was approximately two years old, his family moved into a trailer on Santa Monica Beach for two years, next to Marion Davies's home, while building a new house in Pacific Palisades.

1949

In 1949, Price began at University High School, at which time he took up surfing.

1952

In 1952 while at University High, Price received a scholarship to attend Chouinard Art Institute (now California Institute of the Arts), where he took classes in life drawing and cartooning taught by T. Hee.

Price's earliest aspirations were to be an artist, "As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be an artist. Even when I was a kid I would make drawings and little books, and cartoons..," he states.

1954

Price enrolled in his first art ceramics course at Santa Monica City College in 1954, where he quickly embraced a formal craft tradition as espoused by Marguerite Wildenhain.

1956

He studied at the Chouinard Art Institute and Otis Art Institute (now Otis College of Art and Design) in Los Angeles, before receiving his BFA degree from the University of Southern California in 1956.

He subsequently studied at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, before receiving his BFA degree from the University of Southern California in 1956.

As a student at USC, Price spent time visiting the ceramics studio at the Otis Art Institute where ceramic artist Peter Voulkos was teaching.

Price has often cited Voulkos as his strongest single influence as a student.

After finishing his degree at USC, Price spent a portion of the next year as a graduate student at Otis.

There he studied (under Voulkos) with Billy Al Bengston, John Mason, Mike Frimkess, Paul Soldner, Henry Takemoto and Jerry Rothman.

Price writes about the group at Otis: "We've been cited as the people who broke away from the crafts hierarchy and substituted so-called 'total freedom!' Actually we were a group of people who were committed to clay as a material and wanted to use it in ways that had something to do with our time and place."

1957

He continued his studies at Chouinard Art Institute in 1957 and received an MFA degree from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 1959.

Kenneth Price studied ceramics with Peter Voulkos at Otis and was awarded a Tamarind Fellowship.

He is best known for his abstract shapes constructed from fired clay.

Typically, they are not glazed, but intricately painted with multiple layers of bright acrylic paint and then sanded down to reveal the colors beneath.

Price lived and worked in Venice, California, and Taos, New Mexico.

1958

In 1958, Price left Otis for Alfred University (with a six-month detour in the Army Reserves).

"I went to Alfred to try and develop some low-fire, brightly colored glazes, but also to try and get away from the influence of Voulkos, which was very strong on me."

During his time at Alfred, Price was able to formulate some of the glazes he desired, using a lead base.

1959

In 1959, Price returned to Los Angeles having received an MFA in Ceramics from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University.

Price describes Los Angeles upon his return and the beginnings of the L.A. art scene: "When I started out in L.A. in the late fifties there was no art scene at all really. I mean there was an art scene in New York, but there wasn't one in L.A. There were hardly any galleries. The museum was downtown and it didn't endorse contemporary art. And there were only about three viable art publications. The local newspaper critics didn't like us at all. There weren't any collectors, really very few. We made few sales, and for little money when we made them. But the people I knew were totally committed. And so was I. I was confused about a lot of things at that time, but not about being an artist. I knew that's what I had to be. And then later, around the mid-sixties, the whole scene cooked up: galleries, museums, foundations, art schools, and you know, lots more artists."

1960

Price's first solo show came at the Ferus Gallery in 1960 where he quickly became part of a developing art movement that included artists such as Larry Bell, Billy Al Bengston, John Altoon, John McCracken, Robert Irwin and Ed Ruscha, among many others.

Price would have three solo shows during the short time Ferus was open, and by the mid-1960s Price was a fixture in the west coast art scene.

1962

Aside from six months Price spent in Japan in 1962, Price would remain in Los Angeles until 1970, when he and his wife, Happy, relocated to Taos, New Mexico.

1978

Price's second solo museum exhibition was in 1978 at LACMA, where he presented the project that had consumed him for six years, Happy's Curios (1972–77), named in honor of his wife Happy.

This was a room size installation made up of several wood cabinets with open shelves filled with highly colored glazed ceramic pots, plates, bowls, and cups that owed its inspiration to Mexican folk pottery.

As Price's career developed he began using a different approach to finishing his ceramic sculptures.

1983

In 1983, Price and his wife moved to coastal Massachusetts, where they stayed for the next eight years.

The move coincided with a massive shift in Price's work that would last until the end of his career, the move from glazes to acrylic paint.

The technique Price began to develop during this period involved priming the fired ceramic sculpture with more than a dozen layers of acrylic paint.

1990

In the late 1990s, Price refined his technique still further, beginning to dry sand his acrylic painted surfaces.

A technique he borrowed from the surfboard workshop according to Dave Hickey.

Price was known to apply as many as a hundred layers of paint to a piece, in up to seven different colors.

1991

In 1991 After the Exhibition, Finish Fetish: L.A.'s Cool School, at Fisher Gallery at University of Southern California, several professors encourage Price to join the faculty.

He becomes a professor of ceramics at USC where he teaches for 10 years.

During that time back in Los Angeles, his son, Jackson, began to work with him in the studio, and Price experimented with using a cloth or cotton swab soaked in alcohol to work through layers of paint.

This technique allowed for a blurred effect that achieved a new type of smoothness to the work.