Touchstone Inn • Spa • Bed and Breakfast • Gallery Taos, New Mexico Phone 800-758-0192 Click here to email us. Taos Artist Bren Price, Touchstone Bed and Breakfast's Gallery Inn What the Critics Say Painting | Writing | Artist's Biography | Publications Education | Travel, Teaching, Research and Special Projects Click on images to enlarge Callings, watercolor, 66k Anyone who hasn't seen Bren Price's work is truly missing out on a magnificent experience. It is intriguing. She has surpassed mere color and function and has gone beyond the canvas into a world of harmony, vibrancy, and excitement. A true master of the watercolor medium. -- Deborah Sisson, Tempo Editor, Taos News Innovative and fresh is the work of Bren Price. -- Jill Warren, The New Mexican Claudette, 30" x22" lithograph, 66k Shown at right Bren Price is an outstanding painter. Her watercolors speak of her constant creative search that expresses her emotions and feelings. This quality coupled with the commitment to design principles results in original imaginative works of power. -- M. Douglas Walton, Director, Watercolor Encounter Watercolors by Bren Price are striking, fluent, fluid... -- Joanne Forman, Taos News Beneath the Cross, 43" x 56", watercolor, 66k An air of mystery seems to pervade Price's use of color and abstraction... -- Art Talk Buffalo Spirit, 56" x 29", watercolor, 66k Price's work is intriguing and visually stunning. Her sensitive yet powerful use of color characterizes a uniquely beautiful and evolving vision. Her imagery is often haunting and archetypal in nature -- fetishes and Kachina spirits, Madonna figures, faceless oriental women from some sensual realm of myth and magic. -- J. Nathaniel Hunt, freelance writer Growth and movement are what Bren Price's work is all about. -- Elaine Pinkerton, Santa Fe Profile See more Bren Price paintings on Collector's Guide. Painting The expressionistic method of Bren Price has been compared to the randomity of jazz -- a juxtaposition of the logical with the random..."Imagine shadows dancing across a person's face -- the colors and shapes created there in a fleeting instant -- include these with the logical." Through this interplay, she gives her work life and movement, creating a compelling and ever-evolving freshness.. -- C. Johnson, Director, Gallery of Fine Art, Oklahoma City Return to top of page Writing Bren Price: "Inside the Wind is a book about changing -- a metamorphosis; it is another piece of myself -- a kind of touchstone. Most of the passages are very personal, but universal -- open-ended, stretching beyond some realm we never completely realize." Inside the Wind is a visual treat published by Santa Fe's Sunstone Press in an edition of just over 1000 copies. ...Price's poetry and prose intertwine with vivid, high-quality color plates in a manner reminiscent of lines of poetry intended to be read simultaneously. They are linked, but maintain their individual integrity...Price's poems offer us insights into both her watercolors and her own deeper aspects. "I know you by the who you are -- not by the face you wear" explains one poem. The facelessness of every figure Price paints here suddenly comes to us with a shock of poetic as well as visual recognition. -- Jocelyn Lieu, Artlines Bren Price: "A personality has many faces -- interaction of the viewer allows him to create his own image of the face behind the mask. A face exists as a focal point...leaving it out urges one to see beyond the usual...as with a vessel, 'it is the sides that shape the bowl, but it is what is not there that gives it purpose'." Return to top of page ARTIST'S BIOGRAPHY Shows Selected Exhibits -- Solo Shows Gallery at Touchstone, Taos, 1994, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 00, 01, 02, 03, 04 Sara's, Albuquerque, 1990, 91 Goettler - Smeltzer Gallery, Albuquerque, 1990 25 Year Retrospective, Centinel Bank, Taos, 1989 Taos Water Gardens, Taos, 1988 Bent Street Studio, Taos, 1987 Scharf Gallery, Santa Fe, 1985, 84, 83 The Redroom, Los Angeles, 1984 The Actors' Playhouse, Los Angeles, 1983 Arts Place II, Oklahoma Art Museum, Oklahoma City, 1983 Eastern Hills Country Club, Albuquerque, 1982 Gallery of Fine Art, Oklahoma City, 1982 Lutz Bergerson Gallery, Taos, 1981 Barnes and Boughton Gallery 3017, Oklahoma City, 1981 Selected Exhibits - Group Shows Journey's, Taos 1st State, 1998 Taos Art, A New Decade, Santa Fe, 1990 Leda's Pond, Touchstone, Taos, 1994 Taos Calendar Show, 1987, 89 Artists of Taos, 1988, 89, 90 People's Choice, Taos, 1988 Spring Arts Celebration, Taos, 1989, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97 Discover Hollywood Show, Hollywood Arts Council, 1988 Taos Today, Taos, 1986, 88, 89 Taos Invites Taos, Taos, 1987, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 99, 00, 01, 02, 03, 04 Taos Moderns, Taos, 1986,87 Watercolor Encounter, Louisiana Tech University, 1978, 79, 80, 81, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 95, 97, 02, 04 Watercolor New Mexico, Taos, 1984 Prints And Drawings, Taos, 1984 Images of Ranchos Church, Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, 1982, 83 Watercolor USA, preliminary, 1982 Tri-State Watercolor, 1982 Watercolor Oklahoma, Art Center Museum, Oklahoma City, 1981 Watercolor, Oklahoma Watercolor Association, Oklahoma City, 1978, 79, 80, 81 Return to top of page Press Publications Inside the Wind, by Bren Price, Sunstone Press, Santa Fe, 1983 Articles and Mentions Taos magazine 03 Who's Who in Executives & Professionals 96-97, 2000, 02, 03 Mountain Living Magazine, 1996 American Artists Magazine, Watercolor 1996 Taos News 'Tempo', 1990, 92, 93, 94 Adobe Press; Face to Face 1990 - 1991 American Artists Leading Contemporaries, 1990 Art Gallery International, 1989 Taos Calendar, 1988, 90 Arts and Antiques Magazine, insert, 1988, 89 Frontier Airlines Magazine, 1986 Artlines, 1984 Art Talk, 1984 Taos News, 1981, 83, 88, 89, 90 Personalities of the South, 1983 Santa Fe Profile, 1982 The New Mexican, 1982 Times Weekend, 1982 Friday, 1981, 82 Hockley Daily Sun, 1981 Art Space, 1980 American Biographical Institute, 1980 International Book of Honor, 1980 Art in America, 1983 American Artists of Renown National Anthology of Poetry Continuing Education Watercolor Encounters, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana, 1978, 79, 80, 81, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 95, 02, 04 Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas BS Art Education, all levels Teaching Certificates -- Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma West Texas State University, Canyon, Texas Pettit High School, Pettit, Texas, Valedictorian Related Travel, Teaching, Research, Special Projects Bermuda Jazz Festival Painting 02 India 2000 Bhutan, 1997 Bali-Java Encounter, 1989; 96, 04 Jamaica Tour; 91 Taos Valley School, Art Teacher -- Arts Coordinator, 1986, 88 China Encounter, 1987 Morocco Encounter, Teaching Assistant, 1985 Morocco Encounter, Promotional Assistant, 1984 Grand Cayman, Watercolor, 1979, 83 St. Bart's Watercolor, 1982 El Paso Art Guild Show, judge, 1982 Watercolor Cozumel, 1981 Watercolor Cancún, 1980 Europe, 1976, 1980 Honduras, 1978 Hawaii, 1977, 89 President Oklahoma Watercolor Assocation, 1979 Oklahoma Museum of Art, Watercolor Teacher, 1979 Oklahoma City Public Schools, Art Teacher, 1973, 74 Marsteller Advertising Agency, Chicago, 1969-70 Hurst-Euless-Bedford (Texas) Public Schools, Art Teacher, 1967-69 Artist's Statement | Questions and Answers

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