Brad Price

Brad Price

“Art is experience and the sharing of experience

An Emotional Visit to the Scene

Southwest Landscapes by Oklahoma artist Brad Price utilize bold brush strokes and striking color to depict his love for the American Southwest. He works in both Plein Air and Alla Prima methods.

The bold brushstrokes and colors in expressionist works by Brad Price are inspired by the Southwest landscape and its rugged beauty. His work is a rebirth of the sense of style of early Taos painters and the Post-Impressionists. His works in oil are emotive and colorful with strong directional lines that he employs to guide the viewer into the world that he has seen and experienced.

Through painting Brad Price makes an emotional visit to the scene he is painting. He experiences again what it was like to be there. He can smell the chamisa and hear the waxy clacking of the aspen leaves as they blow in the wind. He can once again enjoy the breeze as it comes down from the mountains. When he paints, he is there. When he hangs a painting on the wall, he invites others to go there with him.

The amazing landscape of Northern New Mexico is his primary focus. The light in New Mexico has a luminescent quality all its own, and Price seeks to capture its effects on canvas. His style emphasizes contrast and bold complementary color. His paintings are a total experience on canvas. According to Price, “Art is experience and the sharing of experience.”.

Biography

Brad Price began his art career in illustration and graphic design while he was a student at the University of Oklahoma. Upon his graduation he became associate art editor at University of Oklahoma Press. Later, in Fort Worth, Texas he embarked on freelance graphic design through his own agency. He was art editor at a TV communications company in South America where he began to employ his current artistic style. He then returned to the US in 1992 where he resumed freelance design and illustration for a time. He began doing gallery work in Taos and Santa Fe in 1998, and In 2014 Dirk Meyer approached him about entering Meyer Gallery in Santa Fe. In 2018 his work was accepted into the Small Works/Great wonders show in OKC.

Brad resides in Norman, OK and is currently represented by the following galleries: Meyer Gallery in Santa Fe. Indigo Gallery in Madrid, NM, Two Old Crows Gallery n Pagosa Springs, CO, and Pitzer Fine Arts in Wimberly, Texas.

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