Neon artist Linda Sue Price mixes form and light with texture – in pieces that are fluid, glowing, and exuberant. Price’s work is about the idea of change as the eternal constant as well as being the process of all communication. Seen at Santa Monica’s TAG Gallery in December, Price’s work was as beautiful as it was evocative. She’ll return to the gallery with a new exhibition coming up in April 2016.
“I was inspired by phrases that resonated with me. I got them from observing human activity, things people say and do. It seems that sometimes in the process of living, we make it harder on ourselves than it has to be,” Price says.
“What inspired me visually was the fact that people don’t see the backside of neon signs. All the bending, the entire creative process,” Price explains.
“I wanted to show that process, to showcase the tube itself, and the way that it can be bent, and to make that the focus.”
As for the words Price chooses to work with, she does not capture them in neon glow. “I intentionally chose not to make them out of neon.”
The words are the background. The neon seems like a living thing the words attempt to capture.
Price has been a neon-admirer since her childhood. She notes that a visit to Las Vegas was always special for her, because of all the neon she could see there.
No past or future in the now…Price’s “Words” series uses some of her own favorite words.
Price’s next show will be held at the TAG Gallery in Santa Monica from April 19 – May 14.
Go, see, glow — some of my favorite words.
- Genie Davis; All Photos by Jack Burke