SETH PRICE

PETZEL is pleased to present Seth Price’s exhibition of new paintings, his eighth solo show at the gallery.

May 13 – June 20, 2026

Price has long explored the relationship between the material and the immaterial through sculpture, photography, video, and, for the past decade, painting. His new series leans toward minimalism and abstraction, employing a reduced language of circles and squares inspired by Taoist cosmological diagrams. Using paints he prepares from iron, steel, and aluminum powder, Price creates brushstrokes, fields, and splashes on panels of lead, a composite of aluminum and cold-rolled steel.

A photograph of the composition in progress is fed into software that uses it to generate algorithmic patterns, which Price has termed “dreams of the alien technical world.” Two of the works feature an exterior view of the artist’s studio reflected in a metallic sphere that could be an insect’s eye, a hidden surveillance camera, or a world unto itself. Price has written: “Only a painting can place human action and machine action on the same plane.”