Eric Price

 

Artist's Statement

"What we need is to be able to express ourselves through the medium of nature, the open air, the different impressions that we experience, all things we are concerned with."—Camille Pissarro

Eric Price invites viewers into quiet moments of stillness, vulnerability, and reflection—captured along the gentle edges of Provincetown’s tidal landscapes. Nature and the human form, particularly the male figure, inspire his work. His experiences hiking, swimming, sailing, canoeing, and fishing provide both solace and uncertainty, fueling his creativity. Whether sitting on a beach, by a riverbank, swimming in open waters, or hiking through dense woods, he finds endless inspiration in the natural world.

A significant part of his studio practice involves painting en plein air to capture the emotional freedom he feels in these settings. This direct engagement with light, color, and texture informs his studio compositions, where he refines the balance between figure and environment. His work draws influence from the American Impressionists and artists such as Joaquín Sorolla, Tom Thomson, Henry Scott Tuke, John Henry Twachtman, Edwin Dickinson, John Koch, and Walter Stuempfig. His palette—rooted in earth tones and subtle shifts of color—evokes the warmth of sunlit sand, the cool blues and purples of tidal pools, and the interplay of light across dunes and marshes. His brushwork varies from broad sweeps in the landscapes to more defined forms in the figures, creating a dynamic interplay that runs throughout his paintings.

Much of Price’s work is based in Provincetown—a place that, for him, is more than just a setting. It’s a space where queerness, memory, and myth come together. In his paintings, he seeks to capture moments that are both specific and universal—a place where the human figure meets the natural world. The landscapes themselves act as both setting and metaphor—fragile, resilient, shifting yet rooted. Through this tension, he hopes his art resonates emotionally with others.

 

Biography

Eric Price received his Masters in Fine Arts from the New York Academy of Art in 2019. He has studied painting with Vincent Desiderio, Peter Drake, Michael Grimaldi, Edgar Jerins, Bernardo Siciliano, Manu Saluja, Patrick Connors, Roberto Osti, Wade Schuman, Audrey Flack, Dan Gheno, Marshall Jones, and Sam Adoquei. Price is a Stephen and Palmina Pace Foundation, Inc. board member, on the the Treasurer of the Alumni Association of the New York Academy of Art, and served on the the Advisory Board of the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA.

Price has held successful executive management and marketing positions at Grove/Atlantic, Melville House, Quercus (a division of Hachette), and Henry Holt.

Eric Price lives in New York City and Provincetown, MA with his husband. Eric Price can be reached at eric@ericpriceart.com.

Solo Art Exhibitions

  • Bare Tides: The Male Figure at Rest by the Sea, Greg Salvatori Gallery, Provincetown, MA, June 2025

  • Moments in the Sun, Greg Salvatori Gallery, Provincetown, MA, June 2024

  • The Beach Only Few Can See, Greg Salvatori Gallery, Provincetown, MA, June 2023

Group Art Exhibitions

  • Art Students League of New York Juried Selection Exhibition, Fridman Gallery, New York, NY. August 2025

  • “Imbolc,” University of Notre Dame Kylemore, Letterfrack, Ireland, February 2025

  • Art Students League of New York, Student Salon, January 2025. Awarded the jurors' choice for the "Red Dot" Best in Show

  • Art Students League of New York, Student Salon, New York, NY. May 2024

  • Greg Salvatori Gallery, Provincetown, MA. May 2023

  • Art Students League of New York, Student Salon, New York, NY. March 2023

  • The Red Inn, Provincetown, MA, Summer 2022

  • Nomo Soho’s Nina’s Liquid Lounge November 2021

  • Provincetown Art Association and Museum Members' Juried Exhibition, October 2019

  • New York Academy of Art’s Paddle8.com Tribeca Ball Auction, April 2019

  • The Red Inn, Provincetown, MA, August 2017

  • “RivertArts Studio Tour,” Irvington, NY, April 2017

  • "Creative Mischief," National Academy Museum, New York, NY, May 2015

  • "Nature and Color," Union Square Studio, New York, NY, December 2014