andrew rice art
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relief

selected works
Andrew Rice Title: she’ll be comin’ round the mountain when she comes Medium: relief print Edition: 250 Paper: Arnhem 1618 100% rag, white, 245 gsm Ink: Gamblin Tom Huck’s Outlaw Black Printed at: erosion SLC press The imagery is derived from older history books geared towards children, with a watered down and whitewashed view of the history of what is now the American West. This was the imagery and the history that we were taught. We now find ourselves at a time of realization and reconciliation with that history. Colonization and westward expansion were major tenets of the ideas behind Manifest Destiny. Amongst the countless atrocities committed were the violent displacement of the people and communities who called this area ‘home’, violent destruction of the landscape driven by greed in the hunt for gold, silver, and other metals, and the physical and symbolic violence of the railroad projects aimed at increasing the commodification of The West. As a current community member and occupier of this land, I appreciate the vast and beautiful landscape and the mystery held within it. There is a fragility to the landscape that speaks to the ideas of erosion and to the ephemeral, ever-changing visual scape that is the American West. We are seeing that change right before our eyes as our own Great Salt Lake continues to diminish in our backdoor, with wildfires that continue to increase in magnitude and destruction, air we cannot safely breathe.. These are directly related to the 20th and 21st century’s continuation of the expansion into global industry and commerce. We’ve been hearing the same message repeated for 30+ years now. ‘Something needs to change, or we’re doomed.’ Nothing much has changed. What was a hopeful optimism (naïveté?) about a cleaner and healthier future has shifted gears to apathy. This idea of the future we were promised. A future that never came. I relate the collage pieces to my work as a printmaker in a lot of ways. Through The layering, the texture building and the meticulous cutting and placing, the act of making feels a lot like making a print. In its own way, it is a form of print “making.” I am making a new piece of original work out of an edition, working backwards from what my printmaker self is trained and familiar with. It is not as important to me at the moment to make my own, unique marks, but rather use a visual catalog that already exists to create a new piece. An author, or poet rarely creates a new word, but can still tell an entirely original story with the words available in their language. I am looking at the collage in a similar way. Use the images that are already at my disposal to tell a new, but familiar story.
  • home
  • intaglio
  • collage
  • screenprint
  • it's crowded in space -Holter Art Museum
  • re(Structured)
  • oil stick
  • redefining structures collagraphs 2016
  • Surel's Place residency
  • spaces exhibition 2014
  • collagraph
  • relief
  • installation
  • drawing
  • Steamroller print projects
  • resume/cv
  • statement
  • student work
  • Store