Saturday May 29th – Sunday July 11th 2010

Private View: Friday May 28th - 6pm - 9pm

Alma Enterprises is pleased to present the first London solo show of artist
David M Price. The show will be the result of the artist’s two month residency
at Alma Enterprises where he has developed a new piece of work in response to
Alma’s manifesto.

The manifesto challenges artists to produce an individual work that results
from a lengthy engagement with the space usually in the form of a residency.

Price's recent practice has been notable for his exquisite copperplate
etchings depicting re-imagined historical landscapes and allegorical scenes.
For his residency at Alma Enterprises he has developed a detailed wall drawing
in ink on the entirety of the gallery walls.

Price's concerns and influences seen in his etchings are reflected in this
chosen technique that have echoes of the landscapes seen in paintings by
Cranach, Altdorfer, Durer and Bellini. He is particularly influenced by their
rendering of the imagined landscape, never drawn from source or photographed.

The design for Price's drawing is derived from the decorative patterns used in
18th Century wallpaper and furnishings which are made up of a large repeated
‘frame’ with the use of swags, bowers and floral decoration and set within
each is a pastoral scene.

Price’s drawing mimics these designs, the swathes of foliage remain, as do the
bucolic scenes, but these have been mutated and are now rendered as monstrous
and perverse. There are now dead trees, puckered molehills and dripping
stalactites.

David M Price has exhibited widely and was selected for Bloomberg New
Contemporaries in 2009 and also completed his MA in printmaking at the Royal
College of Art in 2009.

http://www.almaenterprises.com/current_show.html

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