EXHIBITION: Scratch Drawings
Scratch Drawings
CAITLIN TEAL PRICE
NOVEMBER 5 – DECEMBER 21, 2021
Opening: Friday, November 5th, from 5pm - 8pm
Candela Gallery is excited to mount its first solo show by Washington, DC-based artist, Caitlin Teal Price. Through photography and deliberate, delicate mark-making, Price carves gestural patterns and shapes into the surface of her prints. Built on photographs of sunlight, seeping through the windows of her home, these Scratch Drawings are an exploration of the ritual and routine found in the undercurrents of Price's daily life.
The thousands of marks found on Price's light reflections reference photographs of the everyday taken by Price herself as well others, including Lee Friedlander and Robert Frank. After several months of laborious mark-making with an x-acto blade, Price's large-scale works transcend to abstract scenes of playful figures and gestural landscapes, manifesting and exploring themes of motherhood and the quotidian. Scratch Drawings will open Friday, November 5th, from 5-8 pm. The exhibition will be on view through December 21st, 2021. Featured works will also be included in a printed catalog published by Candela Books.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Caitlin Teal Price received her BFA from Parsons School of Design and an MFA from the Yale School of Art. Her work is represented in both private and public collections, including the Robert V. Fullerton Museum of Art in San Bernardino, CA and the American University Museum in Washington DC. She has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, including Fotografiska Museum in Stockholm Sweden, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery in NYC and the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. Her work has been published in periodicals such as The New Yorker, The New York Times, and TIME magazine among others. Capricious Publishing NYC published her first monograph, Stranger Lives, in December 2016.
For more information or to make an appointment, please contact the gallery at 804.225.5527 or info@candelabooks.com