Lauren Rice 'Collapse'
Collapse, 2019, Graphite, gouache, acrylic and collage on cut and collaged paper, 13 x 12 inches
Artist Statement
Although rooted in painting, Rice’s most recent work takes the form of mixed media collage on paper and intersects with the worlds of drawing and sculpture. She uses both additive and subtractive methods of mark-making and explores how the crumple, the fold, the curl, the cut, the erased, the cover up, etc., can be a means to visually compress, distort and rearrange information. Rice’s work is a playful experiment into finding order with a wide assortment of materials, processes and marks. She does not begin with a preconceived idea of what the end result will be. As Rice works, an order starts to emerge and she pushes back against it, dissolving and dissecting expected patterns. Through this, often intuitive, play, Rice’s work blurs the lines between larger dichotomies—order/chaos, control/chance, worth/worthless, elegance/awkwardness, clarity/obfuscation.
Artist Bio
Lauren Rice is a visual artist based in Richmond, VA. She has exhibited her work in solo, collaborative and group exhibitions at venues in New York City, Philadelphia, Detroit, Washington DC, San Francisco, Nashville, and Richmond, VA, among many others. She has been a fellowship artist-in-residence at The Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, CA and an artist-in-residence at The Luminary in St. Louis, MO. Her work has been published in New American Paintings and Maake Magazine. Rice is an Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing at Longwood University.
Collapse, 2019, Graphite, gouache, acrylic and collage on cut and collaged paper, 13 x 12 inches
Artist Statement
Although rooted in painting, Rice’s most recent work takes the form of mixed media collage on paper and intersects with the worlds of drawing and sculpture. She uses both additive and subtractive methods of mark-making and explores how the crumple, the fold, the curl, the cut, the erased, the cover up, etc., can be a means to visually compress, distort and rearrange information. Rice’s work is a playful experiment into finding order with a wide assortment of materials, processes and marks. She does not begin with a preconceived idea of what the end result will be. As Rice works, an order starts to emerge and she pushes back against it, dissolving and dissecting expected patterns. Through this, often intuitive, play, Rice’s work blurs the lines between larger dichotomies—order/chaos, control/chance, worth/worthless, elegance/awkwardness, clarity/obfuscation.
Artist Bio
Lauren Rice is a visual artist based in Richmond, VA. She has exhibited her work in solo, collaborative and group exhibitions at venues in New York City, Philadelphia, Detroit, Washington DC, San Francisco, Nashville, and Richmond, VA, among many others. She has been a fellowship artist-in-residence at The Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, CA and an artist-in-residence at The Luminary in St. Louis, MO. Her work has been published in New American Paintings and Maake Magazine. Rice is an Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing at Longwood University.
Collapse, 2019, Graphite, gouache, acrylic and collage on cut and collaged paper, 13 x 12 inches
Artist Statement
Although rooted in painting, Rice’s most recent work takes the form of mixed media collage on paper and intersects with the worlds of drawing and sculpture. She uses both additive and subtractive methods of mark-making and explores how the crumple, the fold, the curl, the cut, the erased, the cover up, etc., can be a means to visually compress, distort and rearrange information. Rice’s work is a playful experiment into finding order with a wide assortment of materials, processes and marks. She does not begin with a preconceived idea of what the end result will be. As Rice works, an order starts to emerge and she pushes back against it, dissolving and dissecting expected patterns. Through this, often intuitive, play, Rice’s work blurs the lines between larger dichotomies—order/chaos, control/chance, worth/worthless, elegance/awkwardness, clarity/obfuscation.
Artist Bio
Lauren Rice is a visual artist based in Richmond, VA. She has exhibited her work in solo, collaborative and group exhibitions at venues in New York City, Philadelphia, Detroit, Washington DC, San Francisco, Nashville, and Richmond, VA, among many others. She has been a fellowship artist-in-residence at The Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, CA and an artist-in-residence at The Luminary in St. Louis, MO. Her work has been published in New American Paintings and Maake Magazine. Rice is an Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing at Longwood University.