High Octane
Price Harrison & Melissa Sims
Price Harrison
While Price Harrison’s photographs are rooted in reality, his photographs also encompass themes of urban decay and the American south. They evoke a vernacular modernity of planar surfaces, unexpected light, and industrial products in twenty-first century America. His photographs frequently suggest some recent or future human presence and activity. As with all art practice, Harrison’s images coax and spur us to look again at the world in which we live.
Melissa Sims
Influenced by Pop-Art and Americana, Sims composes paint-by-number style landscapes punctuated by hyper-realistic neon signs. Through remixing familiar or nostalgic imagery Sims produces unexpected narratives and humorous contradictions. She meticulously crafts these surreal scenes onto wood panels which are then preserved beneath a thick, shiny resin. Sims' work gives the impression of having captured a sugar rush inside a snow globe. Sims holds a BFA in Photography and a BA in Art History from The University of Georgia and continued to hone her technique during her 17 years in Los Angeles. She currently lives and works from her hometown of Atlanta, Georgia.