“His compressed, bravura objects rarely measured more than 10 or 20 inches on a side. Their forms oscillated between the biomorphic and the geometric, the geological and the architectural. They reveled in synthetic color, unusual textures and carefully calibrated erotic innuendo. And they fit in at several points across the fertile landscape of American art of the last 50 or more years.”
Roberta Smith, “Ken Price, Sculptor Whose Artworks Helped Elevate Ceramics, Dies at 77,” The New York Times, 24 February 2012 (online)