Visiting Artists Series: Caitlin Teal Price

is a mixed media artist whose works on paper navigate the tension between photography, drawing, and painting. Beginning with photographs of fleeting sun light, she cuts into the photographic surface with an X-Acto blade and layers colored pencil and gouache, transforming ordinary moments into abstracted landscapes. Through this process, she explores the space between the instantaneous and the durational, an inquiry into time, matter, and perception.

Price received her BFA from Parsons School of Design and her MFA from the Yale School of Art. Her work is held in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Columbus Museum of Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and the Yale University Art Gallery, among others. She has exhibited at the Fotografiska Museum, the Sarasota Art Museum, and the National Portrait Gallery, and her work has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and TIME Magazine. Her monograph Stranger Lives was published by Capricious in 2016. Price maintains studios in both Washington, DC and Queens, New York.

Image: Caitlin Teal Price, Split Light, 2025. x-acto blade etching, gouache, colored pencil and light-based image on hahnemuhle rag paper, 52” x 24”

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