MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- London-based artist Elizabeth Price (UK, b. 1966) creates richly layered, moving image works made specifically for gallery settings. Composed of a broad range of imagery sourced from analogue and digital photography, animation, and motion graphics, her works are often accompanied by scrolling text, narrated by a computerized voice and paired with music. Elizabeth Price is on display at the Walker Art Center from Satruday, December 8 through Sunday, June 30, 2019.

Conceived in response to the architecture and past history of the Walker's gallery, this solo exhibition features two new moving image works—FELT TIP and KOHL (both 2018)—marking the artist's first commission for a US museum. Projected floor to ceiling at more than 15 feet, FELT TIP focuses on design motifs of men's neckties from the 1970s and '80s with patterns that evoke electronic networks and digital systems. Exploring the tie as both a sign of professional distinction and a sexually charged object, the work weaves together narratives of early computer technologies in the workplace and the gendered distinctions of its workforce. In KOHL, four fictional characters tell stories related to coal: its link to ink, writing, and the archive as well as its uses as a source of fuel and a cosmetic. Seen together, Price's new works take motifs of dress and body adornment to reflect upon the relationship between the material and digital, sites of labor, and markers of class.

Elizabeth Price (b. 1966) is a British moving image artist. In 2012, she was awarded the Turner Prize for her video installation The Woolworths Choir of 1979. In 2013, she won the Contemporary Art Society Annual Award with the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology. Price was educated at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford and the Royal College of Art, London, and she gained a PhD in Fine Art from the University of Leeds in 1999. She has exhibited in group exhibitions internationally, and has had solo exhibitions at Tate, Whitechapel Gallery, and the British Film Institute, London; and the Musée d'art Contemporain, Montréal. Throughout her career, Price has continued to teach, most recently as a Lecturer in Fine Art at the Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art, University of Oxford.

Curator: Pavel Pyś with Jadine Collingwood

Co-commissioned and produced by Film and Video Umbrella (FVU). Making moving image works by artists for three decades, FVU has championed new creative talent and innovative ideas working in collaboration with a range of venues in the UK and internationally.