: Current Exhibition :
Purity is Death, Transgression Divine
a solo exhibition featuring constructed paintings by Bruce Price
May 23-June 28, 2013
Reception: May 23, 5-8pm
Emmanuel Gallery is pleased to announce the first summer show of 2013 titled Purity is Death, Transgression Divine, a solo exhibition featuring constructed paintings by Bruce Price. We will open this exhibition May 23 and it will continue through Friday, June 28. The opening reception for the artist will be on May 23 from 5-8pm.
Purity is Death, Transgression Divine will focus on a body of work Price started over a decade ago. The majority of the works featured are three dimensional, canvas boxes. With an intense use of color, pattern and texture, each box’s proportions is calculated using aspects of sacred geometry, particularly the Divine proportion of architecture. From whirlpool galaxies & tornados to seashells and leaves the divine proportion is present in how the universe orders itself. Culturally, the use of this proportion has been understood to a line a design with the divine. Death, Transgression Divine resists this conceit through the impure or transgression of multiple differing systems. From perfect lines to accidental and ‘damage’ marks, mass-produced and handmade canvas, sacred & profane proportions, minimalism & expressionism, painting & objects, an ‘almost but not quite’ presence. Irresistibly playful the push between pattern and negative space is amplified by their three-dimensionality; one never sees the whole piece at one time.
Bruce Price is a Denver-based artist. He received his undergraduate degree at the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design and his Masters of Fine Art Degree from the Maine College of Art in Portland, Maine. Price currently teaches at RMCAD and is represented by Plus Gallery, Denver. Our exhibition opens a week after Price’s first solo exhibition at the Denver Art Museum. Bruce Price: Works on Paper, 2007-2012, which includes over 30 paintings will open May 15.
Emmanuel Gallery is a tri-institutional non-profit art space supported by the Community College of Denver, the Metropolitan State University of Denver and the University of Colorado Denver. Emmanuel Gallery is always free and open to the public located in the heart of Auraria Campus and is the oldest standing church structure in Denver. For more information follow us on Facebook, visit our website or call 303.556.8337.
We would like to thank Ivar Zeile and Plus Gallery. To see more of Mr. Price’s work, visit Plus Gallery’s website or their beautiful art space.
Gallery Summer hours: Tuesday - Friday 11 - 5pm and Saturday 12 - 4pm
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