Ken Price

Ken Price PLUTO WARE

Ken Price PLUTO WARE

Ken Price

Pluto Bomb (Red) 1993
Glazed ceramic

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When you look at the Pluto Ware some people only see pollution, darkness, and grim and then other people—like myself—see a kind of strange dark beauty.

—Happy Price

Ken Price

Pluto Bowl (Red Sky) 1993
Glazed ceramic

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Ken Price

Fields of Undetermined Material (Pluto Study) 1993
Ink and gouache on paper

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Ken Price

Pluto Cup (Red) 1994
Glazed ceramic

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Ken Price

Pluto Cup (Green) 1994
Glazed ceramic

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Ken Price

Pluto Cup (Brown) 1994
Glazed ceramic

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Ken Price

Pluto Bowl (Blue Sky) 1993
Glazed ceramic

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Ken Price

Pluto Bowl (Gray Sludge) 1995
Glazed ceramic

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Ken Price

Lightning Bowl 1995
Glazed ceramic

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Ken Price

Dangerously Clean Water (Pluto Study) 1993
Ink and gouache on paper

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Ken Price

Pluto Vase 1996
Glazed ceramic

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I make sensual work. The use of my work is to lead to an experience that makes life more interesting or enjoyable, like listening to music, or reading poetry.[…] I’m trying to get feeling into my work, like joy. Sometimes I want to have an ominous quality, so that it has an edge, and humor in the form, too, if possible.

—Ken Price

Happy Price on Pluto Ware

Ken Price

Smokey Sky (Pluto Study) 1994
Acrylic and ink on paper

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Ken Price

Burnt Sky (Pluto Study) 1993
Acrylic and ink on paper

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Meaning is ambiguous. It’s mysterious, uncertain, and open to personal interpretation. I make concrete objects that stay the same, pretty much for the whole time they exist, and you can go away, and you can come back, and maybe you’ve changed, but the object will still be the same. Whereas meaning is based a lot on social conventions; it’s provisional. And as time goes by, those meanings can give way to other meanings, and they can on changing forever.

—Ken Price

Ken Price

Pluto Bowl (Green Sludge) 1995
Glazed ceramic

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Ken Price

Pluto Bomb (Bisque) 1994
Fired and painted clay

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Ken Price

Pluto Bomb (Bisque) 1994
Fired and painted clay

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Ken Price

Pluto Vase (Bisque) 1994
Fired and painted clay

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Ken Price

Pluto Study (Woman Swimming) 1994
Ink on paper

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