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December Issue
2008
if ART Gallery
in Columbia, SC, Features Works by Edward Rice
if ART Gallery in Columbia, SC, is presenting the exhibit, EDWARD RICE: Paintings 1996 2008, which will be on view through Dec. 6, 2008. Rice's last solo exhibition in Columbia was at Morris Gallery in 1993.
The exhibition will provide an overview of Rice's paintings since 1996 and include his first strictly non-objective, minimalist paintings, Dublin I, II, III, all of 2008. In addition, the show will contain architectural, landscape and botanical paintings, some done recently in Ireland.
Edward Rice (b. 1953) has his studio in his hometown of North Augusta, SC, and lives in Augusta, GA. He is one of the Southeast's most prominent contemporary painters. Among the museums that have his work in their collections are the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans; the Georgia Museum of Art in Athens; the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta; the Columbia Museum of Art, McKissick Museum and South Carolina State Museum, all in Columbia; the Greenville County Museum of Art in Greenville, SC; and the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, SC.
Rice has had solo museum exhibitions at the Morris Museum, the Gibbes Museum of Art, the Greenville County Museum of Art, the Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum in La Grange, GA, the McKissick Museum and the Ogden Museum. Rice also was represented in The Story of the South: Art and Culture, 1890 2003, the inaugural exhibition at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans. He was included in 100 Years/100 Artists: Views of the 20th Century in South Carolina Art at the South Carolina State Museum in Columbia, a survey of 20th-century art in the state. Edward Rice: Architectural Works, 1978-1998 was published by the Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art in Augusta, and Edward Rice: Recent Monotypes, by the Morris Museum of Art in 2003.
if ART Gallery will publish a 40-page, full-color catalogue with essays by Richard Gruber, director of New Orleans' Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and if ART owner Wim Roefs.
For further information
check our SC Commercial Gallery listings, call the gallery at
803/238-2351 or e-mail to (wroefs@sc.rr.com).
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