WALTER PRICE – PEARL LINES
2020-11-16Walter Price’s paintings offer visions that straddle abstraction and representation, combining suggestions of personal memories, collective history and cultural ciphers within his constructions. Extraordinarily apt at placing the viewer, Price’s compositions invoke the feeling of peering into lucid dreams or surreal stage sets, bringing forth an awareness of looking at a familiar setting but from an unusual and disjointed view, as if a wall were removed to allow quiet observation from a specific perspective. Objects are thus placed to accommodate this direction, or appear in motion as though the viewer stumbles upon seemingly private scenes: figures appear to be in repose as they lounge within the space surrounded by a chest of drawers, sofa, table, all the usual hallmarks of a domestic interior. However there is an idiosyncrasy in them – these sparse interiors act as vehicles for the non-linear narratives they hold rather than mirroring a reality.
Opposite – GLIDE UNDER THE MOON, 2020
Exhibition runs through to November 14th, 2020
The Modern Institute
3 Aird’s Lane
G1 5HU
Glasgow
