Lynn Price wins Takao Tanabe prize for BC painters

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Lyn Price, "Now and Then," 2017

oil on paper, binder clips, 30" x 44"

The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria has announced that the 2^nd Annual Tanabe Prize for British Columbia painters has been awarded to Lynn Price.

The Tanabe Prize is an annual award given to artists whose primary medium is painting and who are residents of British Columbia. In addition to being painters, recipients must be emerging artists. Emerging is defined as an artist who is at the early stage of their artistic career having already completed their formal education.

Lynn Price graduated from Emily Carr University (2013), receiving the Mary Plumb Blade Award (painting) and the Governor General’s Silver Academic Medal. She has participated in international residencies, and her work has been featured in exhibitions in Canada and Finland. Lynn’s current MFA studies at Concordia University are supported by a Joseph Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (SSHRC), British Columbia Arts Council Scholarships, a Concordia Merit Scholarship, a Faculty of Fine Arts Fellowship, and the Lillian Vineberg Graduate Award (Painting and Drawing).

Artists are selected by contemporary art curators who are connected to art museums and galleries in British Columbia. Selection is based on exceptional creativity coupled with a promise of future achievements. Names of the selectors are kept confidential. There is no application process for either the curators or artists. The Tanabe Prize for BC Painters is a cash award in the amount of $7,500, and is administered by the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.

Takao Tanabe was born in Prince Rupert and currently lives on Vancouver Island. He studied at the Winnipeg School of Art and the Brooklyn Museum Art School with Hans Hoffmann, Central School of Art in London with Ikuo Hirayama and Yanagida Taiun in Tokyo. Tanabe's painting reflects his interest in abstraction and the landscape.

Source: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria