Tag: Media Coverage

  • From Parmentier to Latvia: Potato for Gourmets on RETV

    A 2024 RETV news segment documented Kartupelis Gardēdim (Potato for Gourmets), a Michelin-level potato dinner conceived by Jeffrey Allen Price and realized with chef Edgars Rubenis in Cēsis, Latvia.

    Master Chef Edgars Rubenis on RETV, 2024

    There is a really great news story (in Latvian) by RETV about the “Potato for Gourmet” dinner that took place at Michelin Star restaurant H.E. Vanadziņš Ziemeļu restorāns on March 1, 2024. They interviewed the brilliant chef Edgars Rubenis and showed some excellent footage of the meal preparations and some of his finished Potato masterpieces. Includes a lot of images of the Potato plant decorations/accents provided by Ilze Dimante and an interview with Cesis inside director Sigita Kletniece, who enabled the Potato dinner event as liaison and moderator. They even interviewed Potato Artist, Džefrijs Alens Praiss (Jeffrey Allen Price), whose idea for the dinner was the seed that grew into this historic feast — a dining experience that even Parmentier would have been impressed and delighted by.

    Potato Artist, Džefrijs Alens Praiss (Jeffrey Allen Price) on RETV, 2024

    Related Projects:

    → Kartupelis Gardēdim (Potato for Gourmets) (2024)

    → The Potato Ball (2016)

    → Open Feast: Potato Potluck (2012)

  • Hyperallergic Reviews Dennis Oppenheim Homage Exhibition

    Potato Auto-Portrait (2004) at Valentine Gallery May 24, 2014

    “Potato Auto-Portrait (carved in 2004-photo taken November 28, 2012)”
    dried potato
    dim. var. approx. 3 x 2 x 1.25 inches
    ©Jeffrey Allen Price

    My sculpture Potato Auto-Portrait was included in a review of the Dennis Oppenheim homage exhibition published by Hyperallergic.

    The reviewer wrote:

    “There is a third self-portrait in the show, along with Becket’s and Oppenheim’s, by Jeffrey Allen Price. A former assistant to Oppenheim, Price made his comic-Picassoid ‘Potato Auto-Portrait’ (carved in 2004), as the title states, ten years ago, and it has been shrinking ever since; consequently, this piece is also moving, albeit at a glacial pace.”

    One of the stranger qualities of working with potatoes as an artistic medium is that the artwork continues to transform long after it is completed.

    Read the full review here:

    Homage to Absurdity: The Restless Legacy of Dennis Oppenheim— Hyperallergic