Artist Arthur Donald Price

Price once stated “On the farm I had learned to work hard on a job until it was done.” Read from the inverse perspective, this seemingly mundane description expresses the figure an artist who worked tirelessly in the transitory space of the undefined – at once between commissions, between styles and movements, and between universal and idiosyncratic ways of seeing.

Written by Adam Barbu, June 2015.

"The Spaceship in the Garden: Selections From the Archives of Art Price

The work of Art Price presents something of an emphatic return to the notion of ‘a life in art.’ His diverse multidisciplinary practice expresses the figure of an artist driven by an open ended yet inexhaustible sense of curiosity. Throughout the course of a long, productive career, beginning around 1940 until his death in 2008, Price worked in sculpture, painting, drawing, and was perhaps most recognized for his commissioned public installations displayed in the Ottawa region and across other Canadian cities.

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