Eric Price

Eric Price is a gifted plein-air painter who grew up surrounded by the beauty of the outdoors and found solace in hiking, swimming, and sailing. This connection with nature allowed him to come to terms with his queer identity and influences the themes and subjects of his art.

He holds an MFA from the New York Academy of Art and finds inspiration in artists like Henry Scott Tuke, John Koch, and the American Impressionists. A career in book publishing, working with authors like Larry Kramer and Harold Pinter, only reinforced his innate and bewitching sense of story.

BARE TIDES

Eric Price’s new work invites viewers into quiet moments of stillness, vulnerability, and reflection, captured along the gentle edges of Provincetown’s tidal landscapes. The series centers on the male figure at rest - unposed, unguarded, and at ease by the sea. Price often employs the Rückenfigur composition, a tradition from German Romantic painting where a figure is shown from the back, gazing at a landscape. Inspired by artists like Caspar David Friedrich and Patrick Hennessy, Price uses this device to invite viewers into his subjects’ world without direct confrontation. His figures exist naturally within the landscape, embodying a space for queerness, memory, and myth.