Robert Standish

Justin Price

Given that our body’s interactions with our environment provide a mostly unconscious basis for our sense of what is real, what human world is possible when we each claim creative occupancy of our body, mindfully engaging with how we move through and mediate personal and public space? What gets illuminated in the moment-to-moment continuum between human thought and our sensory intelligence? Finding balance through binaries, Justin Price explores issues of part to whole, integration and dislocation, presence and absence, subject and world, image and object, dimensionality, illusion, sustainability, and inspired creation through consumption—an engagement that provokes the viewer toward experiential outcomes in beingness.

Justin Price was born in Los Gatos, California, and raised in Denver, Colorado. He received a BFA from Academy of Art University in San Francisco and an MFA from Colorado State University in Fort Collins. His work investigates medium specificities, exploring the mark-making process to articulate an experience of space. Ambiguous images of fashionable beings and objects alluding to the body are simultaneously accentuated and absorbed by their fluid formalist environments, inviting contemplation on the social relationship between these figures and the ambivalence of their world. His paintings have been exhibited both nationally and internationally in galleries, universities and museums. He has received numerous awards and scholarships, including the Kennedy Center Art Scholarship, the Graduate Teaching Fellowship at Colorado State University, and a Juror’s Purchase Award for the permanent collection at McNeese State University. He has been featured in multiple publications, including Create Magazine, The Denver Post, and Denver Westword. He currently lives and works in Northern Colorado where he teaches college art.