Grounded in the Stars | Times Square Arts
29 April – 14 June, 2025
NYC, USA

With Grounded in the Stars, Price reimagines both the monument and monumentality in Times Square, one of the world’s most iconic public spaces. A fictionalised character constructed from images, observations, and open calls spanning between Los Angeles and London, the young woman depicted in Grounded in the Stars carries familiar qualities, from her stance and countenance to her everyday clothing. Through scale, materiality, and posture, Grounded in the Stars disrupts traditional ideas around what defines a triumphant figure and challenges who should be rendered immortal through monumentalisation. In a culture that increasingly encourages a faster pace, Grounded in the Stars is an introspective meditation on humanity. Price’s work offers viewers a unique opportunity to experience Times Square in a new light, and share in a moment of personal reflection and empathy amidst the hyperactivity of the district.

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Still from *Man 10* (2012), Stop-frame animation, plasticine, video projection, variable dimensions

Man Series | Times Square Arts, Midnight Moment
1 May – 31 May, 2025
NYC, USA

In Thomas J Price’s multi-channel Midnight Moment, the faces of several characters are multiplied across 95 displays, their gaze cast just beyond the reach of the nightly spectators in the plazas below. Price’s Man Series (2005-present) is a body of stop-motion animation works featuring sculpted, plasticine heads of male figures against stark black backgrounds. Coming alive through subtle eye movements and facial expressions, these quiet shifts bring a stillness to the visual cacophony of Times Square, and call attention to the way in which we track and perceive one another — an inner dialogue made conscious in the world’s most populated public spaces.

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“The intention of my public works is to become part of the place they inhabit and its physical, material history, as well as the visitors that pass through and around the location, no matter how fleeting. I hope Grounded in the Stars and Man Series will instigate meaningful connections and bind intimate emotional states that allow for deeper reflection around the human condition and greater cultural diversity.”

- Thomas J Price