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The Arts Intel Report

A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Walter Price: Pearl Lines

Walter Price, I don’t wanna make somebody else. I wanna make myself., 2002.

1280 Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, GA 30309, United States

Walter Price grew up in Macon, Georgia, in the 1990s, then served in the U.S. Navy for four years. The military wasn’t easy, but Price’s service meant that upon his return, he could enter art school on the GI Bill. Once there, Price developed a unique painterly language—equal parts idiosyncratic, with stray marks and vivid colors, and figurative, with recognizable objects like sofas, cars, and small hats floating on the surface of the canvas. This exhibition of 20 paintings, dating from 2017 to 2023, speaks of race, history, and cultural consciousness. —Elena Clavarino

Photo: Elisabeth Bernstein/courtesy the artist and Greene Naftali, New York