Team Spirit, 2004
Burned baseball bat with stamped text

Morgan Gabriel Price
GTA- Printmaking

Artist’s Statement
Often it is just the desire to make friends and be accepted that shapes an individual‘s behavior. Systems of inclusion and exclusion inform and enforce social rules and expectations in a powerful and effective manner. Adolescence is a time when concerns about social acceptance are at an all-time high as a person becomes, physically and socially, an adult. Athletics, peer interactions, and romantic
investigations are filled with subtle behavioral rules and mistakes are frequent and devastating. Many times it is only through the committing of these errors that an individual becomes truly aware of the nature of the rules and expectations surrounding them. My art explores these awkward, uncomfortable, and often humorous adolescent moments. Through the use of prints, drawings, and mixed media objects, I create items memorializing the individual’s struggles with social acceptance.

Education
BFA- University of Denver 2001

Exhibition Record
“Cross-Stitch: Craft Mediums Redefined” (Invitational) - The Bank Gallery Kansas City, MO 2004- 2005

“Tiny Works 2004” (Invitational) - Project Gallery
Wichita, KS 2004

“Juvenile Humour” (Solo) - Rhatigan Student Center
Gallery Wichita, KS 2004

“Society of Traditional Printmakers Member Exhibition” (Group Exhibition) - Clayton Staples Gallery Wichita, KS and Steckline Gallery Hutchinson, KS 2004

“Great Plains Regional Graduate Invitational Exhibit”
(Invitational) -ECU Art Department Gallery Ada, OK
2004

“60 Square Inches: 14th Biennial North American Small Print Competition” (Juried) -Robert L. Ringel Gallery, Purdue Memorial Union and Stewart Center Gallery Terre Haute, IN 2004

“The 4th Minnesota National Print Biennial” (Juried) - Katherine E. Nash Gallery Minneapolis, MN 2004