![]() Over 20, he displayed a bronze figure of a Black man in Marcus Garvey Park in New York City, courtesy of the Studio Museum in Harlem. While this is Price’s first major show in L.A., it’s not his first presentation in the United States. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. “Black people spend a lot of time being performative and this is the opposite of that.” ![]() “The gestures and poses are a rejection of the triumphant ruler,” he tells me. ![]() Price, who has a Jamaican father and English mother, is determined to show the Black body engaged in the mundane. These feature the details that make his work feel very human: A woman shifting her weight from one foot to another, another who shields her middle protectively with her arm. As part of his process, he will interview subjects, scan them and then create composites. His sculptures, though inspired by real people, are not literal portraits. Instead, they peer into their cellphones or stand casually in a plaza, hands in pockets. His bronze figures do not ride horses, nor do they march heroically into battle. Thomas J Price makes sculptures that may be monumental in scale, but dispense with the heroic trappings of monuments. ![]() Miranda, art and design columnist for the Los Angeles Times, and I’m also here for all the essential culture news: Monuments to the everyday ![]()
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