PRINTS
Price, Ken; Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles
U.S. (1935 - 2012)
At Club Flamingo
1989
Lithograph and screen print on wove paper
29 7/16 x 20 1/2 in. (74.8 x 52.1 cm) exposed image size; 30 x 21 in. (76.2 x 53.3 cm) sheet size; 30 1/8 x 21 1/4 in. (76.5 x 54 cm) frame size
Gift of Janice Niemi and Dennis Braddock
FA 2006.21

Price had an ongoing engagement with the erotic in his work, from the sensual forms of his abstract clay sculptures to more explicit images like the one here of a spotlighted figure squatting with legs spread for an audience’s voyeuristic pleasure. This print extends a series by Price from the early 1980s featuring scenes of gentlemen’s clubs painted on ceramic vessels. -- Label copy for Ken Price: Inside/Outside, July 5 through September 7, 2014.