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