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Seth Price, Hell Has Everything

Seth Price

Hell Has Everything

Installation view

2018

Seth Price, Hell Has Everything

Seth Price

Hell Has Everything

Installation view

2018

Seth Price, Hell Has Everything

Seth Price

Hell Has Everything

Installation view

2018

Seth Price, Hell Has Everything

Seth Price

Hell Has Everything

Installation view

2018

Seth Price, Hell Has Everything

Seth Price

Hell Has Everything

Installation view

2018

Seth Price, Hell Has Everything

Seth Price

Hell Has Everything

Installation view

2018

Seth Price, Hell Has Everything

Seth Price

Hell Has Everything

Installation view

2018

Seth Price, Hell Has Everything

Seth Price

Hell Has Everything

Installation view

2018

Seth Price, Hell Has Everything

Seth Price

Hell Has Everything

Installation view

2018

Seth Price, Hell Has Everything

Seth Price

Hell Has Everything

Installation view

2018

Seth Price, Hell Has Everything

Seth Price

Hell Has Everything

Installation view

2018

Seth Price, Hell Has Everything

Seth Price

Hell Has Everything

Installation view

2018

Seth Price, Hell Has Everything

Seth Price

Hell Has Everything

Installation view

2018

Seth Price, Hell Has Everything

Seth Price

Hell Has Everything

Installation view

2018

Seth Price, Untitled

Seth Price

Untitled

2015-2018

Dye-sublimation print on synthetic fabric, embroidery, aluminum, LED matrix

80 x 90 x 4 inches

Seth Price, We're going to need a smaller map

Seth Price

We're going to need a smaller map

2018

UV-cured inkjet, acrylic polymer, varnish, graphite powder, sticker, glue, plastic, wood, metal

49 x 98 inches

Seth Price, Untitled

Seth Price

Untitled

2015-2018

Dye-sublimation print on synthetic fabric, embroidery, aluminum, LED matrix

80 x 90 x 4 inches

Seth Price, Grew up in a box marked Freedom

Seth Price

Grew up in a box marked Freedom

2018

Inkjet, acrylic polymer, acrylic paint, glue, plastic, wood, metal

56.25 x 41.75 inches

Seth Price, UnQuantifyWorld

Seth Price

UnQuantifyWorld

2018

Inkjet, acrylic polymer, acrylic paint, glue, bronze powder, plastic, wood, metal

64 x 41.75 inches

Seth Price, Postcard-Style Place

Seth Price

Postcard-Style Place

2018

Inkjet, acrylic polymer, spray enamel, glue, dibond, plastic

30.5 x 42 inches

Seth Price, Homemade Plants

Seth Price

Homemade Plants

2018

Inkjet, acrylic polymer, acrylic paint, glue, plastic, wood, metal

41.75 x 64 inches

Seth Price, Raw on Raw/Motter Ombra

Seth Price

Raw on Raw/Motter Ombra

2018

Inkjet, acrylic polymer, acrylic paint, earth, glue, plastic, wood, metal

63.75 x 46.25 inches

Seth Price, Hell Has Everything

Seth Price

Hell Has Everything

2018

UV cured inkjet, acrylic polymer, glue, plastic, wood, metal

59.75 x 79.75 inches

Seth Price, No ID

Seth Price

No ID

2018

UV-cured inkjet, acrylic polymer, acrylic paint, gesso, paper, glue, plastic, wood, metal

79.75 x 59.5 inches

Seth Price, Step And Repeat Pattern

Seth Price

Step And Repeat Pattern

2018

Inkjet, acrylic polymer, acrylic paint, earth, plastic, wood, metal

41.5 x 39 inches

Seth Price, Broken Virus Style

Seth Price

Broken Virus Style

2018

Inkjet, acrylic polymer, acrylic paint, earth, glue, plastic, wood, metal

54.75 x 41.5 inches

Seth Price, Spine Surgery 

Seth Price

Spine Surgery 

2018

Inkjet, acrylic and fibrous polymers, acrylic paint, powdered graphite, plastic, wood, metal

71.75 x 74.75 inches

Seth Price, 90s Style Teeth

Seth Price

90s Style Teeth

2018

Inkjet, acrylic polymer, gesso, glue, plastic, wood, metal

47.75 x 68.75 inches

Seth Price, Untitled

Seth Price

Untitled

2018

Inkjet, paper, acrylic polymer, glue, aluminum, wood

52.5 x 84.75 inches

Press Release

Petzel Gallery is pleased to present a new exhibition Hell Has Everything by Seth Price. This is Price’s first show at the Chelsea gallery in six years, a period during which he produced a fashion show that debuted at dOCUMENTA (13); wrote a novel (Fuck Seth Price, which Kim Gordon described in The New York Times as “the best description of the art world ever”); launched Organic Software, a website anonymously created by Price featuring profiles of 4,500 art collectors; was the subject of The Seth Price Institute, a year-long research group and public event series hosted by CCA Wattis; and inaugurated career-spanning surveys at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Museum Brandhorst, and London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts.

Price marks his return to Chelsea with a wave of new experiments, including mixed-media paintings, a large-scale video projection, and back-lit photographic works. 

Price’s new paintings employ printing, collage, paint, and photographic techniques. Some are based on photographs the artist took in New York’s streets and subways while others feature ambiguous objects constructed with 3D modeling software. All the works are manipulated by way of chemicals, pigmented polymer fluids, and powdered earth. 

The video-projection Social Synth is suspended from the ceiling. To create the work’s bizarre imagery, Price utilized a robotic camera that spent hours roving across a squid’s skin in order to yield over ten thousand photographs, which were then processed through software designed for map-making and 3D cinema. In this hybrid work, natural and artificial are intertwined, and a computer-generated light source becomes the protagonist in an uncanny organic landscape.

The video is not the first time Price has used this method; in 2015 he initiated a series of works in which details of human skin are photographed from models of various ages, genders, and races, and depicted as high resolution light boxes. A suite of these works were installed at MoMA PS1 over the summer of 2018. The light boxes on view at Petzel mark a departure: smaller in size and rendered in black and white, they depict areas of skin where the software was unable to synthesize its data into unified images, producing instead fractured, arbitrarily-determined compositions. These new works are also hand-embroidered with the phrase “New York City,” a marker of production reminiscent of Price’s inclusion of production date in his vacuum-forms and Calendar Paintings.

Taken as an ensemble, the works at Petzel suggest novelist Rachel Kushner’s characterization of Price’s work: “vision so accurate it becomes fiction.” 

Petzel Gallery is located at 456 West 18th Street New York, NY 10011. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00 AM–6:00 PM. For press inquires, please contact Ricky Lee at ricky@petzel.com, or call (212) 680-9467.