Caitlin Teal Price
Images and Text: Caitlin Teal Price
About the Artist:
Caitlin Teal Price is a mixed media artist using photography and drawing to explore the tangible and intangible currents found within daily life. She was born in Chicago, IL and grew up in Washington, DC. She earned her BFA from Parsons School of Design and her MFA from Yale School of Art. Her work is represented in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the American University Katzen Art Museum and promised to the Phillips Collection and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Notably, her work has been exhibited at Fotografiska Museum in Stockholm Sweden, The Sarasota Art Museum in Sarasota FL and the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. Her most recent solo exhibitions include “Scratch Drawings” at Candela Gallery in Richmond Virginia (2021), and “Green is the Secret Color to Make Gold” at Tephra, Institute of Contemporary Art (2018). Her work has been published in periodicals such as The New Yorker, The New York Times, and most recently Art Maze Mag.
About the Series: Stranger Lives Images
The photographs in Stranger Lives offer us the opportunity to stare, to wonder and to fantasize about the lives of strangers. In this series the viewer is encouraged to investigate and to create stories about each subject by looking at the scars, veins and wrinkles on her skin, by the pattern on her blanket, the style and placement of her shoes and the items brought for both comfort and survival. This leisure activity has taken on a specimen like persona; each barely clad stranger presents himself under bright light, poised for observation.
Stranger Lives was made between 2008 and 2016 with a Mamiya RZ 6x7 medium format camera and Kodak Portra film.
