Bret Price | |
---|---|
Born | 1950 (age 73–74) |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater |
Pomona College California Institute of the Arts |
Known for | Sculpture |
Spouse | Rae Lynn Price |
Children | 2 |
Bret Price (born 1950 [1]) is an American sculptor known for his large-scale work with steel. [2] [3] [4] [5] His work has been included in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum [1] and the Donald M. Kendall Sculpture Gardens, among others. [6]
Price was born in Palo Alto, California. His father, Harrison “Buzz” Price, worked with Walt Disney, [7] and encouraged him to pursue his passions. [8] [9]
Price attended Pomona College in Claremont, California. He initially pursued pre-med but switched majors after taking a ceramics class and graduated in 1972. [10] [9] He then attended the Otis Art Institute for a year and earned a master of fine arts from the California Institute of the Arts in Santa Clarita in 1975. [10]
External image | |
---|---|
"Nori" (2007) at Domaine Forget in Quebec, Canada |
From 1976 to 1987, Price was an assistant professor at Chapman University. [6]
Price's early works were in ceramics, [11] but he turned to steel beginning in 1979. [1] His creations grew in scale over time, eventually reaching up to 35 feet (11 m) in height and weighing 7.5 short tons (6.8 t). [6] His artistic process consists of heating pieces of steel to high temperatures using propane gas and then bending, twisting, and rolling them using a forklift, giving them a supple and flexible appearance. [12]
Price's work has been included in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, [1] the Donald M. Kendall Sculpture Gardens, [6] the Laguna Beach Museum of Art, the Long Beach Museum of Art, the Orange County Museum of Art, and the Dayton Art Institute, among others. [6] [13]
Price splits his time between Orange, California, where he works at the studio Logan Creative, and New Bremen, Ohio. [10] [12] He made several sculptures for his backyard in Orange, including an 11-foot-long (3.4 m), 1,500-pound (680 kg) zipper. [14]
Price is married to Rae Lynn Price ( née Olson). [15] [7] He has a daughter, Erin, and a son, Greg, who is a glass artist. [8] [15]