Tony Price (1937-2000)
“If the effort could be made to neutralize the Bomb with the same intense effort it took to create the Bomb, I know the task could be done, because nothing is impossible.”
Drawing of the artist by Gaston?
After visiting Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1967 and discovering their salvage yard, Tony Price began to create utilitarian objects such as chairs and tables and musical instruments, especially wind chimes and gongs, out of their discarded materials.
He later moved on to creating sculptures, and his most famous works are a group of inspired masks created out of scrap metal, some of them based on Hopi Kachinas, Hindu, Norse, Roman, Central American, and other deities.
In 1983 filmmakers Glen Silber and Claudia Vianello created a documentary on Tony Price titled “Atomic Artist”. This aired nationally on PBS in 1986.
Showings of his work have have occured in New York, New Mexico, Arizona, … In September 1986, Price was given a solo exhibition in the New Mexico Governor’s Gallery at the state capitol. Later, the New Mexico Museum of Art organized a major retrospective in 2004 that traveled to the United Nations in 2005.
Mercury Communication God
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