Seth Price

Seth Price's new paintings employ powdered metals and algorithmic patterning on lead and steel, exploring abstraction through Taoist cosmological forms.

Why go

Price's shift toward minimalism and abstraction marks a significant evolution in his decades-long investigation of material and immaterial. The works combine hand-prepared metallic paints with algorithmic patterns generated from process photographs—what he calls "dreams of the alien technical world"—collapsing human and machine action into a single

What to expect

Six paintings and two large-scale works on aluminum composite featuring circles and squares inspired by Taoist diagrams. Materials include powdered iron, steel, and aluminum applied to panels of lead, aluminum composite, and cold-rolled steel. Two works incorporate reflections of the artist's studio exterior in a metallic orb.

Things to know

• Price's eighth solo exhibition with Petzel Gallery.
• Artist composed his latest record, Inner Storm (Dead Mind Records, 2026), while working on these paintings.
• Work currently on view in MoMA's "Collection 1980s–Present: Post-Atomic Abstraction" and the New Museum's "New Humans: Memories of the Futur
• Price has exhibited at Venice Biennale (2011), Documenta 13 (2012), and major museums including MoMA, Whitney, and Stedelijk Amsterdam.
• Born 1973 in East Jerusalem; lives and works in New York.
• Powdered metals prepared by the artist; algorithmic patterns generated from process photographs.

Plan your visit

Gallery hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 10:00 AM–6:00 PM. Located at 520 West 25th Street, New York. Contact info@petzel.com or 212-680-9467 for inquiries.