Amy Rice in Contagious: 3 Oct Exhibit

Contagious

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009
(one day only!)
preview 3 - 7pm
reception 7 - 10pm

1121 Jackson Street NE
Studio #145
Minneapolis, MN 55413
(near corner of Central and Broadway Aves NE)


about the artists:

Tara Costello
Tara Costello creates abstract paintings that emulate the landscape using plaster, raw pigments, wax, ink and oil. Her palette has been called both “luscious” and “muddy- baroque.” The texture and reactions between the materials are as important as the resulting image. Layer by layer these paintings reflect visual experiences rather than specific places or times.


Jennifer Davis
Jennifer Davis’s portraits have a surreal candy-land exterior full of innocent charm, which only hints at an undercurrent of darker truths. Her acrylic paintings on panel and paper contain a mysterious yet familiar language of invented symbols that continually grows, repeats and changes. The figures in her narratives play out the delicate balance between their bestial natures and the more humane and generous qualities of their souls.

Amy Rice
Beginning with not-so-traditional print making methods (hand cut stencils and a Japanese Gocco printmaking toy) Minneapolis based mixed-media artist Amy Rice makes original, one-of-kind pieces by additionally employing acrylic, gouache, ink and collage. Her “canvases” range from weathered wood panels and found objects to antique envelopes, age-worn love letters, and found journal pages yellowed with time. Rice draws inspiration for her work from childhood memories, both real and imagined (or just slightly exaggerated with time), the urban community in which she lives, vintage botanical prints, her dog Ella, bicycles, street art, random found objects, collective endeavors that challenge hierarchy, acts of compassion, downright silliness and things with wings.