Luther Price, Ground Piece One (Five Life Size Figures), 1982-1983, plastic, metal, dirt, approximately 30 by 16 by 36 inches each. Photo Chris Austin.
Best known for his Super 8 films and slide projections covering topics ranging from his own traumatic family history to medical procedures, Luther Price was also, in the mid-‘80s, a sculptor (he stopped in 1986 to focus on film and performance). The work in “The Years Made Flies,” completed while Price was a student at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, is predictably gruesome and creepy: seated life-size figures with missing limbs; a pile of spindly, antlike dead babies; and mixed-medium wall panels imbedded with twisted human bodies, trash, flags and other disconcerting materials.