BARBARA GILETTE PRICE
Barbara Gilette Price
At the heart of Barbara Gillette Price’s work is the conversation between “Appearance and Reality” - the process of making the ordinary extraordinary. She pulls source material collected from the world around her - from remembered landscapes, to figurative compositions, to subtle political statements that she then explores in thematic series. Rembrandt, Goya, Gorky and Matisse inform her explorations of inner worlds, while Abstract Expressionists such as Joan Mitchell and Helen Frankenthaler influence both her use of emotive color.
“I have a minimum of three canvases going at the same time allowing me to carry forward the discoveries made in each and to ensure that there is a conversation between them and continuity. My work is contemplative, with many fugitive clues - my desire is to have my audience pause long enough to allow this subtle communication to occur”.
After receiving her MA in Painting and Sculpture from the University of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Barbara Gillette Price began teaching at colleges surrounding the university, and then joined the faculty at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC. She then quickly rose in the academic art world, holding posts as the Dean of the Cranbrook Academy of Arti in Michigan, and then as the President of the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1998, Gillette moved to Spain where she has established her own studio and Gallery and exhibits her work across Europe.
