Works
Icons
Computer icons carry culture, history, and code. As buttons, they awaken functions deep inside the system. As images, they evoke old technology, memes, and mysteries. And, as artwork bearing their own titles, they come loaded with implications, overtones, and attitude. In artworks, essay, and poetry, Jonathan Reeve Price explores the complex powers of 100 icons.
Author of 30 books, conceptual artist and concrete poet, Jonathan Reeve Price shows visual poems in galleries, museums, and anthologies. He created the first style guide for Apple's writers and designers, and here recalls the invention of computer icons, and reflects on 100 examples of the current crop.
Viewing Hokusai Viewing Mount Fuji
A meditation on Hokusai, taking apart the prints in the series, 36 Views of Mount Fuji, zooming in digitally, assembling a 21st century interpretation of his practice, as he celebrates the natural landscape of a nation coming up with a new idea of itself.
The Liquid Border: The Rio Grande from El Paso to the Gulf of Mexico
In a series of images, Jonathan Reeve Price explores the liquid border—the imaginary line drawn down the middle of the Rio Grande as it passes between Texas and Mexico. Starting with topographical maps from the United States Geological Service, and satellite pictures from NASA, Price zooms in on the ripples in the river, the steep cliffs and undulating desert on both banks, and the odd unnatural beauty of the digital representations seen from 30,000 feet. His images and texts may help us imagine the people struggling across the river, and the trackers from the Border Patrol waiting on the American side. This exhibition is an homage to all their treks.