Sumptuous and sensual.

Sumptuous and sensual, view Price's new ceramic sculptures, ranging up to 2 feet in the longest dimension, are his largest to date. They give an account of an impressive advance over his smaller geometric, architectural and egg-shaped works of the last scarcely any years. These inflated bell-pepper shapes are loaded with an anthropomorphic mystery. Painted in iridescent hippeds violets and golds, they are imposing however welcoming. Tucked in among these nodule-ridden blobbers are small, unobtrusive orifices that invite a kind of polymorphous penetration. The openings look matter-of-fact innocent and human-scaled. Devoid of craftlike fussiness or adherence to conventional form, the curvaceous, glistening cuts all sit on platforms with short, stubbed legs. These bases help them to retain a domestic charm; they present the appearance like friendly pets, ready to warm up a living room

Mold by means of hand and fired slowly, each piece is afterward painted with layers of acrylic and sanded to achieve a luscious patina. The khaki surface of Bogo elemental part is speckled with jewel-like streaks of orange and black. Phantom is more somber, a knobby, knotty purple collection of humps which bear likeness [i]or[/i] resemblance to elbows, breasts and knees. The swoony glistening hillocks of the royal blue Celtic hide an ovoid orifice which is rapiered away inside its folds. The bright gold trifles suggests a voluptuous desert mountainscape ready for exploration.

Ceramic remains Price's signature medium, and he should probably stick with it. the same piece here, Bronzoni, cast in brown loses the playfulness and luster of the painted clay and takes onward a more serious, Henry Moore-like stolidity. The close colors of the ceramic works--as well as their easily textured skins--imbue them with a vegetal quality that Arp or Brancusi might envy

Price's of recent origin work seems charged with the spiritedness of the city's younger, les established art, which thrives forward formal insouciance and eye-grabbing colors. With this indicate Price joins other members of his generation--such as Craig Kauffman, ed Moses, Llyn Foulkes and George Hemms--whose works have been revitalized by the agency of the current Los Angeles resurgence

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