The paintings of Walter Price have breath. They are nuanced. They are fluid, and they freely associate. Sometimes this fluidity breaks. It staggers, it stops, it snaps, only to give way to new formation. The paintings transcend even the simplest of polemics. They are nimble and difficult worlds. They embrace the potential of form and painting and its materiality.
Walter Price is an artist born in 1989 in Macon, Georgia, living and working in Brooklyn. Price served in the US Navy before attending art school in Georgia and Virginia. On the occasion of his exhibition at the Walker Art Center, Michelle Grabner spoke with Price on the New Social Environment (Episode #1088). The conversation that follows has been edited for length and clarity.