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February Issue
2011
Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem,
NC, Features Works by Edward Rice
Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC,
is presenting the exhibit, Edward Rice Paintings, curated
by Paul Bright, on view in the Hanes Art Gallery, located in the
Scales Fine Arts Center, on view through Feb. 6, 2011.
This exhibit features the precisely rendered paintings of architectural
subjects for which the artist is known in the Southeastern US.
The paint handling, scale and specificity of detail in these works
give them a tremendous presence, but they are also about the limits
of realism and painterly mimesis. Rice's work in this selection
comprises painting that span a range of approaches, including
the non-objective. All of them project a strong sense of the hieratic;
symmetrical, formal and often regally aloof.
Rice, b.1953 is a past recipient of a South Carolina Arts Commission
Artist Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts / Southern
Arts Federation Regional Fellowship. His paintings have been included
in exhibitions at Babcock Galleries, New York, Gerald Peters Gallery,
Santa Fe, Heath Gallery, Atlanta, among others. His work is included
in the collections of the Gibbes Museum of Art, the Columbia Museum
of Art, the South Carolina State Museum, the Greenville County
Museum of Art, the Georgia Museum of Art, the Morris Museum of
Art and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art.
"The architectural paintings of Edward Rice are carefully
rendered evocations of place, born of close familiarity and intense
study," says David Houston, Chief Curator, The Ogden Museum
of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA. "Informed by the continued
absorption of outside influences, yet following his own self motivated
path, Rice's work matured during the reemergence of a vigorous
school of American realist painting. Although the development
of the new realism made the critical climate more receptive to
realist painting, Rice's anachronistic realism was largely untouched
by the conceptual element of late modern art; it also lacked the
irony, revivalism and media consciousness associated with Postmodernism."
For further information check our NC Institutional Gallery
listings, call Paul Bright at 336/758-5585 or e-mail at (brightpb@wfu.edu).
Editor's Note: We felt although the ending of this
exhibit is very near, the show was still worthy to include.
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