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1. The divide, part one, 2010. 40” x 40”
2. The plains #2, 2010. 40” x 40”
3. Field, 2010, 40” x 40”
4. Canyons, 2010, 40” x 40”
5. On the rocks, 2010, 40” x 40”
6. Wall divide #1, 2010, 40” x 40”
7. Still Life in Delft, 2009, 40” x 60”
8. Still Life Veiled in Plastic Screen, 2009, 24” x 18”
9. Still Life ~ after dusk, 2009, 24” x 36”
10. Still Life in Yellow with Valance, 2009, 40” x 60”
11. Still Life in Delft Tile, 2009, 40” x 60”
12. Still Life, Under Painting 3, 2009, 24” x 36”
13. Bond Chair, 2008
14. Shim Chair, 2007
15. Shim Chair, detail, 2007

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1. Still Life, 2008, ceramic, wood, 7” x 16” x 12”
2. Still Life, 2008, ceramic, wood, 12” x 16” x 4”
3. Still Life, 2008,ceramic, wood, 16” x 20” x 12”
4. Still Life, 2009, ceramic, wood, 11” x 14” x 5”
5. Still Life, 2009, ceramic, wood, 8” x 16” x 9”
6. Still Life, 2009, ceramic, wood, acrylic, 16” x 10” x 4”

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Contact Information
Lives and works in Philadelphia, PA & Seoul, Korea
e-mail: mail@matthewaldenprice.com
website: www.matthewaldenprice.com
Please contact artist for purchases, commissions, etc.

Artist Statement
I was born in Columbus, Ohio but it was the four months each year at my family's cottage on the Maine coast that I received my most prominent life lessons. The house, pieced together over five generations, wraps around my great grandpa's fireplace. Family members made the dishes, rugs, lampshades, everything in the house. I realize now it is not a place I can own. I am simply a caretaker, resounding history, while hoping to contribute a small part for the future.

My life is like my art. Over the past 18 years I have moved 15 times. The memories of each place are forever present though the details often escape me. Recalling the textures and surfaces of each place is like scrolling through a collection of wallpaper samples. It is a vocabulary that forms the sentences of my stories while nurturing the desire to continually look, question, and want more.

Amidst my travels I have been studying the origins of color. The color ochre comes from rocks. Red is from the cochineal insect. A color may represent a time or place. It can unite or divide people and countries. When colors are paired, the combinations become potent enough to suggest the warmth of a holiday season or outline men waging war.

Hanji Color Field Paintings display traditional handmade Korean rice paper in new yet familiar ways. Originally used to cover windows of Korean homes (hanok), here, the paper becomes an entry point into another environment. Slightly above the painted panels lacquered surface one is drawn into a reflective field of color. Beneath the color, along the peripheral edges of the artists' papers, are decorative motifs describing new perspectives on landscapes.

Education
2007
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
MFA, ceramics

2003
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
BFA, ceramics

Awards and Honors
Awards / Travel Grants / Research Abroad

2009- 2010
Visiting Artist, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea

2008
European Ceramic Work Centre Residency, Hertogenbosch,
The Netherlands

2007
Reykjavik, Iceland, research grant provided annonymously

2007
Copenhagen, Denmark, research grant provided by CAA

2006
Madrid, Spain, research grant provided by CAA

Watershed Center for Ceramic Art Residency, Newcastle, ME

2004
Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship Award

Selected Exhibitions

Solo

2009
Recitation Gallery, The University of Delaware, Newark, DE

Matthew Alden Price, Suka Art Space, Busan, Korea

Won Kyoung Lee & Matthew A. Price, Gana Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2004
Arts Annex, Columbus, OH

2003
The Belmont Building, Columbus, OH

Group

2009
Burgess, Lee, Liu, & Price, K Gallery, Seoul, Korea

The 15th National Arts Exhibition of Korea, Seoul City Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

EKWC, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Small Favors IV, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA

Weinerberger, International Building Fair, Utrecht, The Netherlands

art… a catalyst for change, Daimler Financial Services, Farmington, MI

Playing the Field, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA

2008
39th National Juried Exhibition, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA

14th National Arts Exhibition, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

Gallery in the Garden, Hawk Mountain, PA
Curator: Eillen Tognini

MK Gallery: Static/Flux, Portland State University, Portland, OR

Drift-some: Chwekun, Medlen, Price, Fort Point Arts Gallery, Boston, MA

Small Favors III, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA

Transformations: 6x6, Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY

Fine Art Exhibition, Mercedes Corporation, Farmington, MI

2007
Marge Brown Kalodner Exhibition, The Clay Studio,
Philadelphia, PA

Small Favors II, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA

Graduate Thesis Exhibition, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI

Cups Coming Together, Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY

7 Kroner, Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield
Hills, MI

2006
Abacadabra, Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI

2005
Sugar Show, Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI

Earth & Fire: Works in Clay, Womanmade Gallery, Chicago, IL

Art On Paper, Gallery International, Baltimore, MD

Watershed Winter Residents 2005, Clay Art Center, Port
Chester, NY

ROY G BIV Gallery, Columbus, OH

2004 - 2005
Sculpture Salmagundi VIII, Imperial Art Museum,
Rocky Mount, NC

2004
Lil’ Street Art Center, Chicago, IL

The study of buoyancy, Arts Annex, Columbus, OH

Project One: Sculpture on the Beach, Newport, RI

2003
The Belmont Building, Columbus, OH
In collaboration with dust

The Ohio State Fine Arts Exhibition, Columbus, OH.

2000
The Borrowed Image, Roesch Library, Dayton, OH

Other
2004
Art Through The Grapevine, auction to benefit Choices,
Columbus, OH