Out of the Box: Joseph Cornell and Ken Price

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The French Surrealists’ oft-cited goal to create work “as beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella” expressed their desire to create a new and raw beauty, centered on everyday objects. The American artist Joseph Cornell used similar strategies to lyrical effect. Self-taught, his collages and three-dimensional objects intertwine language and image into poetic constellations.



This installation features 25 of Cornell’s enigmatic works, each of which—despite their unlikely beginnings in a cluttered basement and an odd assortment of materials—remains a visual poem that prompts us to daydream.



Also on view is Ken Price’s Death Shrine 2, a work that expands the notion of the box into a colorful shrine. Like Cornell, Price was an artist’s artist and ceramics his favorite material. Most of his works are small in scale, the exception being his Happy’s Curios, a series that includes Death Shrine 2 and was inspired by roadside stores and memorials in Mexico.Untitled (Box Construction), 1951-52, Joseph Cornell, American, 1903-1972, wood, paper, 18 1/2 x 11 1/2 x 4 in., Seattle Art Museum, Partial and promised gift of Ann P. Wyckoff, 94.148. © The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.

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Out of the Box: Joseph Cornell and Ken Price Seattle Art Museum Main address: Seattle Art Museum 1300 FIRST AVENUE WA 98101 Seattle, United states Seattle Art Museum 1300 FIRST AVENUE WA 98101 Seattle, United states The French Surrealists’ oft-cited goal to create work “as beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella” expressed their desire to create a new and raw beauty, centered on everyday objects. The American artist Joseph Cornell used similar strategies to lyrical effect. Self-taught, his collages and three-dimensional objects intertwine language and image into poetic constellations.



This installation features 25 of Cornell’s enigmatic works, each of which—despite their unlikely beginnings in a cluttered basement and an odd assortment of materials—remains a visual poem that prompts us to daydream.



Also on view is Ken Price’s Death Shrine 2, a work that expands the notion of the box into a colorful shrine. Like Cornell, Price was an artist’s artist and ceramics his favorite material. Most of his works are small in scale, the exception being his Happy’s Curios, a series that includes Death Shrine 2 and was inspired by roadside stores and memorials in Mexico.Untitled (Box Construction), 1951-52, Joseph Cornell, American, 1903-1972, wood, paper, 18 1/2 x 11 1/2 x 4 in., Seattle Art Museum, Partial and promised gift of Ann P. Wyckoff, 94.148. © The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.
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