Aspen Art Museum, Colorado
May 2019
May 29–October 6, 2019
For his exhibition We passed like ships in the night, Walter Price presented a selection of seven paintings created during his time as an artist-in-residence at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation on Captiva Island. The small, sandy island on the western coast of Florida was artist Robert Rauschenberg’s home for over thirty-five years, and he described the landscape as possessing “a magic that was unexplainable in its power.” Embracing Captiva as a site for the creation of new work, Price painted a series of intimately scaled works that blend abstraction and representation. From washes of color evoking both sea and sky, the wavering horizon line, or the breeze blowing through a palm tree, Price’s paintings render an imagined landscape within the concrete space of the physical world. We passed like ships in the night is a rumination on a specific place, Captiva, as well as a poetic reminder of how we use symbols and memory to construct our collective cultural landscape.
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