Antonia Price explores the endless nature of art through ‘Time Loop’ series

Antonia Price is a fiber-based artist who creates out the studio of her Curtis Park home. (Photo courtesy of Antonia Price)

By Sena Christian

“Time Loop #1” is fiber-based artist Antonia Price’s favorite of her pieces. It’s shaped as a wire circle with a fabric winding around it, “so it’s a continuous circle in your eyes,” she says. “If you start following the fabric, your eyes keep moving back and moving back and moving back.”

Price says the piece “just worked.” She is now onto “Time Loop #27,” creating out of the studio of her Curtis Park home. Like all her art, the Time Loop series represents abstraction, the final creation unknown “until it happens,” she says. “Because of the way I work with materials, [it] depends a lot on the interaction of the fabric — and I use a lot of wire and a lot of tension — how those things all work together. So the failure rate on these things is like 80%.”

Raised in Corvallis, Oregon, Price grew up in fiber arts; her mother is a weaver. She also played music during her youth and danced into her 20s. Price earned her degree in Spanish language and literature from University of Washington and lived in Seattle for about 13 years, where she danced for a small modern dance company. She also made costumes, sculptures and installations for dance productions. She moved to Los Angeles and earned a Master of Arts from California State University Los Angeles, often working on commission for designers who needed fiber sculptures for private homes, offices and businesses. She moved up to Sacramento in 2021.

“Shape Mobile #4” by Antonia Price. (Photo courtesy of Antonia Price)

For Price, creating art is like breathing. She says she can’t not do it. All of her pieces focus on the abstract. “So I’m working out the things that turn over in your mind, over and over and over again. When I’m having a hard time falling asleep, or when I’m stuck in traffic or whatever, my mind is rolling over these problems of shapes and numbers and colors and forms that I’m making. That’s where I’m putting my mind, instead of worrying about all of the other things there are to worry about.”

Being a fiber artist is about how she sees and processes the world. But it’s also something she inherited — and not only from her mother. “Fiber arts are a long, long tradition, as long as humanity itself,” she says, “and so I inherited this way of working from many, many, many generations before me.”

Price had a piece in a show at E Street Gallery in October and at Rumpelstiltskin on R Street for last December’s Second Saturday. While she continues to sell her artwork, she also teaches crochet and yoga, which provides a critical source of income in a particularly challenging career.

“Time Loop #1” still hangs in a corner of her living room. Something about the piece makes Price unable to want to give it away. “Every time I look at it,” she says, “my eye still goes around in that circle and it’s just so pleasing.”

This story was funded by the City of Sacramento’s Arts and Creative Economy Journalism Grant to Solving Sacramento. Following our journalism code of ethics and protocols, the city had no editorial influence over this story and no city official reviewed this story before it was published. Our partners include California Groundbreakers, Capital Public Radio, Outword, Russian America Media, Sacramento Business Journal, Sacramento News & Review, Sacramento Observer and Univision 19. Sign up for our “Sac Art Pulse” newsletter here.

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