Artist
Caitlin Teal Price
(American, b. 1980, Washington, DC)
Title
Magenta
Date2022
MediumArchival pigment print, colored pencil, X-acto blade etching
Dimensions40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
Framed Size: 46 x 35 1/2 in. (116.8 x 90.2 cm)
Framed Size: 46 x 35 1/2 in. (116.8 x 90.2 cm)
Credit LineDC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Art Bank Collection
Object numberDCCAH2025.009
ClassificationsPhotographs
Locations
Office Assistant City Administrator (1350 Penn Ave NW, 223)
DescriptionEach of Price’s abstracted landscapes exploit a tension between photography and drawing. Inspired by images of sunlight as it fleets by, her underlying photographs evoke the mystical and the otherworldly. Using an x-acto blade, Price delicately scrapes away from the surface of the photographic print, revealing the white paper underneath. The forms Price carves out of the page are extracted from daily life, leading to an investigation of time, space, and matter.
