New Utopia and Light Fracture by Luther Price

Luther Price (January 26, 1962 – June 13, 2020) was a prolific artist whose work explored the deepest, darkest corners of the human experience. Working in film, performance, sculpture, photography and mixed media, his haunting images were often composed from found elements, thickly layered with ink, paint, glue, tape and bodily fluids. Price donated two sets of handmade 35mm slides to the VSW archives in 2017. New Utopia and Light Fracture is a posthumous work made from the slides and interspersed email messages from Price to VSW Press over a period of two years. The messages reveal aspects of Price’s personal history, philosophies and aesthetic principles, domestic and mental states, his sense of humor, as well as fragmented fictions.

2023, VSW Press, 6.5x8.5”, 154 pages, digital offset, first printing edition of 250