Elizabeth Price
13.03.04-18.04.04
Private View: 12 March 2004, 7.00-9.00 pm
Under the title This record belongs to Jenny England Elizabeth Price initiates an ongoing, organised collection of made, found and adapted things. The terms for the expansion of this collection are not yet complete, but those terms will be added, and then these too will be maintained.
Some of the things in the collection are grouped together into a category, namely: drawings of buildings named after people.
Certain of them, though single, establish a category which will be added to in the future, namely: review picture No 1 (The beautiful and talented Crystal Gayle creates a night to remember. In this one-woman live concert Crystal treats the audience to such hits as chart-toppers "Half The Way" and "Talkin' In Your Sleep" along with Grammy Award winning "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue". She has sold millions of records including two Platinum albums, four Gold albums and one Gold single. She has been named American Music Awards "Favorite Female Artist").
One of them, though a single thing, is itself ongoing. It is a drawing of ink dots made and counted by the artist which will be continued until it reaches the sum of 500,000. It is called towards a Gold Record.
There is also a 7" single, the Grammy Award winning "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue" by Crystal Gayle which will be played in the gallery; and a memorial to United Artist Records (1958-1979), the company that originally released the single in 1977. (These things are yet to be categorised).
In this exhibition of new work Price maintains her practice of establishing a hermetic, formal set of principles or terms as the basis for artistic work. At the moment, the collection of things made under these terms all use traditional artistic media such as drawing, painting, printing and modelling. These manual processes are used to annotate the social history of the single found object from which the collection starts, and of the protagonists of its production, doggedly and with sentiment.
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