Edward Rice: Recent Montoypes


Augusta, Georgia November 11 2003--
The Morris Museum of Art Presents
Edward Rice: Recent Monotypes,
November 14, 2003 through January 4, 2004

Augusta, Georgia: Recent works of North America and Europe by noted South Carolina artist Edward Rice are featured in Edward Rice: Recent Monotypes, at the Morris Museum of Art, November 14, 2003 through January 4, 2004. Opening events on November 13 include an illustrated talk by the artist at 6 p.m. in the museum auditorium. A preview and reception follows the lecture. The event is free for museum members; $5 for nonmembers. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully-illustrated color catalogue that features brief essays by Phillip Garrett, David Houston, June Lambla, and artist Edward Rice.

A protégé of the late Freeman Schoolcraft, Rice has been an exhibiting artist for more than 25 years. His work is represented in numerous public and corporate collections -- including those of the Columbia Museum of Art, the Georgia Museum of Art, the Greenville County Museum of Art, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and The Morris Museum of Art, to cite just a few. His work has been featured in more than 80 group shows, as well as 25 solo exhibitions, and it has been the subject of innumerable articles, essays, monographs and catalogues since 1978.

Rice achieved his reputation originally as a realist painter who sought to capture the robust

romanticism of the region's vernacular architecture in meticulously rendered paintings of Augusta's older structures and many others found along the border of Central Georgia and South Carolina. Beautifully drawn and colored, these paintings depended on a technique that bordered on the obsessive. Painted on site, these radiant works resulted from a slow, precise and complex process through which he conveyed a vivid sense of place, season, and time – all captured through the patient accretion of telling detail. A life-long resident of Augusta – he was born here in 1953 -- he continues to maintain his studio in North Augusta, South Carolina.

The current exhibition represents a departure from the earlier, carefully crafted and minutely detailed architectural paintings. First exposed to the possibilities of monotypes in 1990 while a guest artist at the Ringling School of Art and Design, he returned to his exploration of the medium when presented with an opportunity to collaborate with master printer Philip Garrett at King Snake Press in Greenville, South Carolina during the fall of 2002. He embraced this new technique with enthusiasm, and, over a period of 2 weeks, created two dozen images in his first concerted effort to create prints. Fourteen of the original twenty-four monotypes were selected for the present exhibition.

As Ogden Museum curator David Houston notes in his catalogue essay, Rice's new prints are "quicker, looser, and more instinctive in approach than his oil paintings…" He compares them to a "jazz improvisation," noting further that this first exhibition of new work in a new (for him) medium offers a "rare opportunity to experience a moment in an artist's career when the accomplishments of the past open… to the possibilities of the future."

The exhibition remains on view at the Morris Museum through January 4, 2004 and at Hodges Taylor Gallery in Charlotte, North Carolina from January 9 through February 28, 2004. Lenders to the exhibition include Mr. and Mrs. C. Douglas Day, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Dozier, Mr. and Mrs. E. John Flythe, Hodges Taylor Gallery, and Mary Pauline Gallery. It was made possible in part by the support of Pat Knox and H. M. Osteen.

For more information, slides or photographs, contact Tania Beasley-Jolly at 706-828-3805.






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