Opening Reception | Exhibition Questioning the Structures of Hierarchy in Art: Resilience of Scale

For Resilience of Scale, British artist Thomas J. Price will present five towering bronze figures and a large-scale photographic work. Together, the works amplify traditionally marginalized bodies and redress structures of hierarchy, inviting questions about who we chose to celebrate in art. Resilience of Scale presents an environment where mobility is truly felt: viewers will be able to move through the space to engage with the works directly and from all vantage points, positioning themselves within the artist’s narrative rather observing from a detached distance. Soaring to heights as great as 12 feet and installed directly on the floor, Price’s bronzes honor everyday people by granting them the grand scale and material finish long central to Western traditions of monument making, a genre and medium historically reserved for members of the social, economic and cultural elite.

Each of the works’ fictional identities are composites derived from images and people observed on the street, in magazines and at open call castings. Constructed using digital sculpting and lost-wax casting techniques, these figures often don casual clothing and stand in deliberately casual poses, seemingly lost in their own thoughts, unbothered by the viewers over whom they soar. Through this combination of operatic scale, laudatory medium and quotidian subject, Price challenges the longstanding aesthetic conventions that underpin representations of power. And, the artist’s photographs likewise draw attention to the ways in which historical institutions—typically regarded as arbiters of truth—have limited society’s understanding of and openness to socioeconomic mobility for all. Through this conceptual intervention, Price invites viewers to engage with a narrative that is both personal and critical of the conventions that have historically shaped art and culture.

This exhibition is on view from April 24th through June 14th. Concurrent with the exhibition, Times Square Arts will exhibit Price’s massive bronze figure, ‘Grounded in the Stars’ (2023) in Times Square, at Broadway and 46th Street, from 29 April to 17 June 2025. Price’s stop-motion animations from his ‘Man Series,’ will also be presented on over 90 of the Times Square district’s billboards nightly from 11:57pm to 12am, from 1 – 31 May 2025 as a part of the Midnight Moment program.