Artist Overview
Sam Price Studio
Sam is an artist based in New York City. He is currently pursuing an MFA in Industrial Design at Parsons School of Design, with a BFA and Architecture Minor from Cornell. Sam uses paint, sculpture, and digital media to explore the relationship of perception and creation. By invoking the perpetual human experience of searching for clarity from ambiguity, he honors a universal struggle to build meaning.
Sam's art has also been featured in Vice Magazine, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Boston City Hall, the Kennedy Space Center, and one of 1stDibs' first digital art exhibitions. Additionally, he was accepted into the 2020 Best of SUNY and SUNY Chancellor’s Gallery Exhibitions. Sam was selected for Cornell’s 2020 Anderson Ranch Painting Scholarship, a \art grant, BitBasel’s CryptoArt for Impact and Innovation Challenge, and the 2020 Edith Adams & Walter King Stone Award in recognition of work filled with promise in advance of his thesis year. He had the honor of being curated for the first digital art collection on the moon, contained in a nickel disc aboard the US' first return mission in over 50 years in February 2024. Sam has collaborated with Ponce Neuroscience Lab at Harvard University several times, including as part of his thesis exhibition. Most recently, Sam's work was shortlisted by the Philadelphia Museum of Art for its annual Collab Student Design Competition.
When astronauts on the Apollo missions first observed the pale blue dot of our planet from space, a new perspective on the fragility of life emerged on a different level than any earthbound preservation instinct.
As commercial space travel overshadows mankind's first in-person impressions of the Earth from space, I contemplate the impact that the overview effect would have on many more in a future time when this experience is increasingly democratized. This thought is complemented by my image of a giant crowd fading into the stars-humanity becoming more integrated into a greater cosmic perspective.
