Luther Price

For Luther Price, film is not only a means of storytelling but also an invitation for experimentation. Where his early Super 8 films of the ’80s and ’90s spoke to dark family dramas and fantasies, his more recent 16mm films focus more on drama as played out on the actual material. His recent Inkblot Film Series pushes the use of film almost to the point of destruction in his abuse of found footage by paint, chemical treatment, and, sometimes, underground burial. It is not just the material decay that Price pursues, but the idea of defunct technology, as evident in his slide collages.

Price is represented by Callicoon Fine Arts and has shown films and artwork at the 2012 Whitney Biennial and the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Brooklyn, among other venues.