Artist Spotlight: Linda Sue Price - Connections

Linda Sue Price, Connections 1, Neon and mixed media, 15 x 15 x 10"

TAG Gallery is pleased to feature two bodies of neon and mixed media works by L.A. artist Linda Sue Price. The artist’s works capitalize on an economy of material in reflecting issues surrounding our current socio-political climate. Price explores themes of dividedness, interconnectedness, and spiritualism, combining photographic portraiture, chain, textiles representing each of the seven continents, and prominently, the yin yang symbol made from neon-lit tubing.

In Price’s series Connection, the work's underlying grid of crowd sourced portraits represents California’s diverse demographics and include those in her Los Angeles community and California residents at large. The artist’s highlighting of differences in race, gender, age, and orientation grounds her work in the traditions of social realism with its emphasis on the ‘average’ Californian.

Linda Sue Price, Connections 2, Neon and mixed media, 15 x 15 x 10"

In her series Continents, the works combine indigenous textiles worldwide. Both of the artist’s bodies of work relate humanity’s concerns from local, global, and cosmic vantages.

Linda Sue Price, Continents 1, Neon and mixed media, 15 x 15 x 10"

Price’s works trace current tensions facing humanity and are expressed between optimistic images of family, community, or symbols of culture, and affixed chain that surrounds each piece. Through the artist’s juxtaposing of photographs and chains, Price examines borders as objects of both protection and confinement and makes ambiguous the relationships between fragility and strength. Price’s use of the yin yang symbols are ever-present reminders of the light and dark forces inherent in the laws of nature and invites contemplation about humanity’s role in both the smallest and biggest pictures.

Linda Sue Price, Connections 3, Neon and mixed media, 15 x 15 x 10"

Linda Sue Price began studying neon at the Museum of Neon Art in 2004 under master neon artist Michael Flechtner. Solo exhibits include those at TAG Gallery in Los Angeles, and group exhibits including Untltled, curated by Shana Nys Dambrot at Artshare LA. Price is an advisory board member at the Museum of Neon Art in Glendale, California.

The exhibition runs through Saturday, July 7, 2018
Artist Talk: Saturday, June 30, 3 p.m.