August 30th, 2011
This “Fragment from a Torn Drawing” is from between 1994-1996. During this period I was making very physically aggressive and obsessive all-over drawings. I was interested in making long repeated marks across the paper and how this would create a kind of grid that started looking like a form of writing system, like hieroglyphics.
This particular one was started first with pencils and perhaps markers. There is a later layer of pastel added and the oil and stains came later still. Some of the works I made during this same time were drawn on both sides and often times I would tear the drawings up into smaller shards. I was also tearing up maps and atlases into small shards and I saw a kind of physical and metaphorical relationship between the two.
“(Untitled) Fragment from a Torn Drawing” will be included in the exhibition “Raw Materials” at (SCENE) Metro Space in East Lansing, MI curated by Robert McCann. On view September 9 – October 23. This work has never been exhibited until this time.
Tags: drawing, fragment, msu, pastel, pencil, process, stains
Posted in Artifact of the Month | No Comments »
March 5th, 2011
In Memoriam: Izabella-my cat, friend and model over the last 14 years-has recently passed away and I have chosen this portrait of her as the latest Artifact of the Month. This ink drawing was rendered from life, in one sitting in my kitchen in 2006. This is one of my favorite images I made of Izzy who gave me a lot of positive energy during the making of it. I always thought Izzy had magical markings and her beauty inspired hundreds of drawings from my hand over the years. More images of IZA can be found in my Cat Drawings Gallery:
http://www.jeffreyallenprice.com/gallery/index.html#/drawings/cat_drawings
Tags: cat, feline, ink on paper, izabella, kitty, portrait, R.I.P.
Posted in Artifact of the Month | No Comments »
January 24th, 2011
Potato Hat is one of my favorite props and probably the most enduring of my potato performance relics. I first wore this Campaign Hat with potatoes in 1998 at the Third Annual THINK POTATO Festival and it has made several appearances in performances and exhibitions since that time, including Emergency PotatoFete (2001), POTATOLAB (Potato Games, 2002), THINK POTATO IV (God Potato Performance, 2003) and Cult of Potato (World Tour 2005) where it was suspended from the ceiling so that visitors could sit under it, receiving increased cognitive powers from the potatoes (and also have their pictures taken with it). Wearing a crown of potatoes on the head is a perfect metaphor for my THINK POTATO concept. It is also a humorous homage to my military father who wore a similar kind of hat when he was a Boy Scout Master.
Tags: performance, potato, THINK POTATO
Posted in Artifact of the Month | No Comments »
September 11th, 2010
This vestment with bird feathers is a J.A.P. performance relic from MASQ FEST I (1996) and his Cha-No-Yu performance (1997). Made with feathers found over a two-year period while gardening and working outside. This was last seen worn by J.A.P. at the Masquerade after-party of The Texas National juried by the Art Guys in Nacogdoches, TX (2000).
J.A.P. and Art Guy at Masquerade Party, Nacogdoches, TX 2000
Tags: Art Guys, feathers, performance, Potus-Caktoe, Texas National
Posted in Artifact of the Month | No Comments »
June 23rd, 2010
This month’s Artifact is ‘Potato Fetish’, a work by J.A.P. made from a real potato, pierced with stripped screws, bent nails, broken blades and various old hardware. Last exhibited during ProcessProcessProcess: Recent Configurations, at York College in 2009.
Tags: fetish, installation, potato, process
Posted in Artifact of the Month | No Comments »
March 26th, 2010
I built this maquette back in 1998 after becoming involved with The World Tune Project created by Wolfgang Neuhaus. World Tune is an internet-based sound system that allows visitors to broadcast sounds uploaded by members all around the world. The homepage plays loops of these sounds and also through several physical loudspeakers located around the world. I was the International Online Coordinator for this project from 1998-2000. During this time, while living in Springfield, Missouri, I tried to find sponsorship to build a full-scale World Tune loudspeaker for the city. Unfortunately, I was unable to see this come to fruition before moving to New York in 2000. This 12″ maquette is an exact small-scale replica of the standard World Tune speakers already in existence and has a small working speaker that can be plugged into any computer sound jack.
I recently sent this maquette to my friend Wolfgang Neuhaus in Berlin, Germany. Hope you enjoy it Wolfie!
Here is a link to a photo of me with the model, giving a lecture on the World Tune system in a Technology Enhanced Classroom at Missouri State University, in 1998.
Tags: loudspeaker, maquette, world tune
Posted in Artifact of the Month | No Comments »
