Lauren Rice

Heirlooms at Transformer Gallery

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Heirlooms at Transformer Gallery
February 5-March 12 2011

Lauren Rice, Willing Suspense, mixed media

Lauren Rice, Beast's Belly, foam, wire, mixed media

Lauren Rice, Heirloom, foam, wire, mixed media

Lauren Rice, Spill, mixed media

Lauren Rice, Babble, collage spray paint, gouache

Lauren Rice, detail of Beast's Belly, foam wire, mixed media

Lauren Rice, detail of Willing Suspense, mixed media

Press for Heirlooms

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/01/AR2011030106380.html

http://pinklineproject.com/article/heirlooms-not-your-grandmothers-garden

http://www.tbd.com/blogs/tbd-arts/2011/02/tbd-picks-930-f-street-heirlooms-gang-of-four-8314.html

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/visual-arts/2011/01/18/next-at-transformer-lauren-rices-heirlooms/

http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/articles/lauren-rice-transformer-gallery.htm

ART ON PAPER 2010: THE 41ST EXHIBITION

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November 7, 2010 – February 6, 2011

The Weatherspoon Art Museum at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro is pleased to announce the selection of artists for the 2010 Art on Paper biennial exhibition, which opens to the public on November 7, 2010 and remains on view through February 6, 2011.

Xandra Eden, the Weatherspoon’s Curator of Exhibitions, has invited seventy-five artists of regional and international significance to present unique works made on, or of, paper. “With this year’s exhibition, the Weatherspoon continues to expand its international scope,” comments Eden, “Art on Paper 2010 includes artists from across the Americas, Europe, Asia and the Middle East." The full list of participating artists appears at the end of this release.

Since 1965, the Weatherspoon’s Art on Paper exhibition has charted a history of art through the rubric of one-of-a-kind works on paper. Now in its forty-first year, the steadfast commitment of xpdex (formerly the Dillard Paper Company) has allowed the Weatherspoon to acquire works from each and every Art on Paper exhibition, resulting in the formation and tremendous growth of the Dillard Collection of Art on Paper, which today numbers close to 550 objects. Acquisitions have included work by some of art’s seminal practitioners, including Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, Brice Marden, Joan Mitchell, Robert Smithson, and Frank Stella. Support for the exhibition and catalogue is generously provided by the F. M. Kirby Foundation, Inc.

The exhibition opens on Saturday, November 6 with a Curator’s Talk by Xandra Eden at 6:30 pm, and a Preview Party hosted by the Weatherspoon Art Association from 7-9 pm. Call 336.334.5770 or email weatherspoon@uncg.edu for more information and to purchase tickets.

The 28-page Art on Paper 2010 catalogue will includes selected images, an exhibition checklist, and curator’s statement.

Art on Paper 2010: List of Artists
Mequitta Ahuja
Diana Al-Hadid
Michael Ananian
Ky Anderson
Walead Beshty
Huma Bhabha
Nina Bovasso
Natasha Bowdoin
Nicholas Buffon
Tom Burr
Barbara Campbell Thomas
Emilie Clark
Dawn Clements
Gabriel de la Mora
Brian Dettmer
Josh Dorman
Jason Dunda
Will Duty
Jenny Eggleston
Bryan Ellis
Mark Fox
Rosemarie Fiore
Roland Flexner
Heather Gordon
Maximo Gonzalez
Belinda Haikes
Jacob Hashimoto
Elana Herzog
Carter Hodgkin
Katie Holten
Rebecca Horn
Jessica Jackson Hutchins
Fritz Janschka
Lisa M. Kellner
Eun Hyung Kim
Elizabeth Leal
Tonya D. Lee
Maria (Eun-Hee) Lim
Cynthia Lin
John Maggio
Cameron Martin
Frank McCauley
Elizabeth McIntosh
Maureen McQuillan
Jennifer Meanley
Alison Moffett
Roy Nydorf
Paul P.
Angela Piehl
Howardena Pindell
Amy Pleasant
William Powhida
Amy Purcell
Lauren Rice
Charlie Roberts
Chris Scarborough
Aurel Schmidt
Frank Selby
Julie Shapiro
Leah Sobsey
Duston Spear
Mariam Aziza Stephan
Dirk Stewen
Matthew Stromberg
Susanne Thomas
Christopher Thomas
Scott Treleaven
Michael Velliquette
Sarah Walker
Lee Walton
Robert Watts
Ruby Wescoat
Paula Wilson
Lisa Woods
Rachael Wren

About the Weatherspoon Art Museum

Mission
The Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro acquires, preserves, exhibits, and interprets modern and contemporary art for the benefit of its multiple audiences, including university, community, regional, and beyond. Through these activities, the museum recognizes its paramount role of public service, and enriches the lives of diverse individuals by fostering an informed appreciation and understanding of the visual arts and their relationship to the world in which we live.

History
The Weatherspoon Art Museum at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro was founded by Gregory Ivy in 1941 and is the earliest of any art facilities within the UNC system. The museum was founded as a resource for the campus, community, and region and its early leadership developed an emphasis—maintained to this day—on presenting and acquiring modern and contemporary works of art. A 1950 bequest from the renowned collection of Claribel and Etta Cone, which included prints and bronzes by Henri Matisse and other works on paper by American and European modernists, helped to establish the Weatherspoon’s permanent collection. Other prescient acquisitions during Ivy’s tenure included a 1951 suspended mobile by Alexander Calder, Woman by Willem de Kooning, a pivotal work in the artist’s career that was purchased in 1954, and the first drawings by Eva Hesse and Robert Smithson to enter a museum collection.

In 1989, the museum moved into its present location in The Anne and Benjamin Cone Building designed by the architectural firm Mitchell Giurgula. The museum has six galleries and a sculpture courtyard with over 17,000 square feet of exhibition space. The American Association of Museums accredited the Weatherspoon in 1995 and renewed its accreditation in 2005.

Collections + Exhibitions
The permanent collection of the Weatherspoon Art Museum is considered to be one of the foremost of its kind in the Southeast. It represents all major art movements from the beginning of the 20th century to the present. Of the nearly 6,000 works in the collection are pieces by such prominent figures as Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, Cindy Sherman, Al Held, Alex Katz, Henry Tanner, Louise Nevelson, Mark di Suvero, Deborah Butterfield, and Robert Rauschenberg. The museum regularly lends to major exhibitions nationally and internationally.

The Weatherspoon also is known for its adventurous and innovative exhibition program. Through a dynamic annual calendar of fifteen to eighteen exhibitions and a multi-disciplinary educational program for audiences of all ages, the museum provides an opportunity for audiences to consider artistic, cultural, and social issues of our time and enriches the life of our university, community, and region.

Weatherspoon Art Museum
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Spring Garden and Tate Streets, PO Box 26170
Greensboro, NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5770, weatherspoon@uncg.edu

For more information or press images, contact:
Loring Mortensen, 336-256-1451, lamorten@uncg.edu

New Work from "Swim Lane", "ReVisions" and The Weatherspoon Museum's Art on Paper Biennial

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Forthcoming!

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Great Lakes Drawing Biennial @ The University Gallery, Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, MI

September 9 through October 23
Opening Reception: Wed, September 22, 8 - 11pm

Curated by Hartmut Austen, the Great Lakes Drawing Biennial is a juried show open to all artists in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, New York and Pennsylvania. Hosted by Eastern Michigan University once every two years, it will highlight artistic activity related to all manor of contemporary drawing. The show will be accompanied by a mini-catalog highlighting the work of all participants selected and six awards (5 for Merit and one Best in Show) will be announced at the opening.

and

REVision @ The Katzen Museum in Washington, DC

August 31 through October 24, 2010
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 11, 6pm

This second Alumni Show in the American University Museum will be will be selected by Art Department faculty members Tim Doud and Zoe Charlton, and Museum director and curator Jack Rasmussen.

Swim Lane @ 2739 Edwin

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"Swim Lane" featuring George Rahme, Lauren Rice, Ian Swanson and Graem Whyte

Through August 14th:

http://www.thedetroiter.com/v3/2010/07/saturday-july-17-2010/

Perform/Install 3 @ The South Bend Museum of Art

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Perform|Install 3
March 27–June 27, 2010
Exhibition Reception is April 9, 2010, 5:00-8:00 (musical performance begins at 7:30 p.m.) It is not new for a museum to put on events or design exquisite installations. It also is not new for museums to share the art viewing experience with a performance in the same locale. For the SBMA, it is a regular happening and has been for many years. What is new, however, is to celebrate the joining of events and art in the third installment of Perform/Install. This fusion comes to the SBMA in the form of two visual artists installing work and deliberately transforming the Warner Gallery into a performing arts venue. Over the course of the exhibition several events ranging from experimental in nature, to traditional forms of performance will be presented.

Meredith Setser (Indianapolis, Indiana)–– Grounded by process and materials, space is transformed using massive, swelling walls of handmade felts, imaged with etchings and screen prints. The light at the end of this billowing cave converges on a surprise built of living and dead plant matter, textured felts, and resin. The patterning employed on the massive swaths of felt employ generic biological renderings of dermis and vein patterns shared by a majority of organic life forms and is applied with traditional printmaking applications. Incorporated into the installation are animal by-products (wool, hooves, and pelts) as a means to juxtapose the “faux” felted pelts with actual animal products. This combination places the installation somewhere between reality and falseness, perhaps producing some sense of subterfuge when examined closely.

Lauren Rice (Detroit, Michigan)–– Fantastical landscapes created from debris, papier mache, wood, spray and found objects organic grow and expand in unexpected ways. “Flowers” are formed from bulky blobs resting uncomfortably upon their armatures of wooden dowels, wire and cement. The imagery in this installation work references gardens and flowers, however the traditional preconceptions of these feminine and romantic things are often vulgarized. Rice’s installation intends to simultaneously support and subvert expectations of formal qualities and structural integrity, utilitarian and decorative function. And, in doing so, investigate techniques and materials that have masculine and feminine connotations, as well as explore notions of craft, kitsch, preciousness and sentimentality.

With Color or Not, org Puts on Strong Shows, The Detroiter, by Cedric Tai

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http://www.thedetroiter.com/v3/2010/01/with-color-or-not-org-puts-on-strong-shows/

Installation shots from Vestiges

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My interview discussing my current solo show Vestiges:

http://perfectlaughter.com/index.php/lauren-rice-interview/

Vestiges: New Work by Lauren Rice

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org contemporary is pleased to present: Vestiges: New Work by Lauren Rice

Opening Reception December 11th, 7:00-9:00 pm

Special Exhibition Preview December 5th during Noel Night and the Russell Industrial Open Studios

Using both collage and installation, Lauren Rice transforms ordinary materials into curious forms. Her recent works on paper combine collaged magazine elements, ink, graphite, gouache, spray paint and paper pulp to create abstractions that exist in the liminal space between sexy and strange, pretty and gross.

In Rice’s installations and sculptural projects, she accumulates, modifies, and arranges found and created objects. Using the gallery space as a jumping off point from which to grow and expand in mysterious ways, her installations also balance in between awkward and elegant.

Rice’s work simultaneously supports and subverts expectations of formal qualities and structural integrity; utilitarian and decorative function. By doing so, she investigates techniques and materials that have masculine and feminine connotations, as well as explores notions of craft, kitsch, preciousness and sentimentality.

Rice’s work clearly expresses an interest in contributing to the current dialogue of using found, non-traditional material to create work. It is essential to her practice, however, to criticize and challenge those very tactics by intentionally overindulging in formal elements that have become trends in contemporary art. Precious forms exist beautifully next to awkward, even ugly shapes. Elegant cut paper flowers emerge from a slop of paper pulp or cement. Trendy rays of color radiate from blobs of collage, drawing attention to the relationship between the gawky, strange and the formally divine.

Lauren Rice was born in Atlanta, GA and currently lives and works in Detroit, MI. She received her BA in Studio Art from Knox College and her MFA in Painting from American University in Washington, DC. Recently, her work has been curated into exhibitions such as Paper Trail: Selections from Transformer Gallery's Flat Files at both Transformer Gallery and Heineman Myers Contemporary Art; Girlish Ways: The Next Generation of Female Artists at The Bobby Fisher Memorial Building in Washington, DC; and Experimental Drawing at Nance Street Studios in Houston, TX. Lauren has exhibited in venues in New York City, Chicago, Houston, Fort Worth, Washington DC, Detroit, Baltimore and Atlanta.

org contemporary specializes in solo or two person exhibitions of local and national contemporary artists. They are located on the third floor of building 2 at the Russell Industrial Center in Detroit, MI.

http://www.orgcontemporary.com
http://lauren-rice.com/

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Look for my work at:

Transformer proudly presents

The 6th Annual Transformer Silent Auction & Benefit Party

November 7, 2009
7 – 10pm
The Mexican Cultural Institute
2829 16th Street NW

Cynthia Connolly
AUTAUGAVILLE, AL, 11-2-02

Innovative, experimental, diverse, and hip – Transformer is at the nexus of DC’s cultural scene. As Transformer’s primary fundraising event, our Annual Transformer Silent Auction & Benefit Party provides essential support for this dynamic organization’s year-round programming, exhibitions, and services – and it’s a great party!

Transformer’s Annual Auction is an ideal way to begin or expand your art collection while connecting with a smart, sophisticated audience. This very special, one-night only event features an exciting array of over 125 artworks in a variety of mediums, dimensions and prices by more than 100 of DC's leading, emerging, and established artists. Click here to download a complete list of artists and artworks.

Dan Steinhilber
Untitled 1

Expanding Transformer's mission of artist-centered programming and partnerships with cultural institutions, we are thrilled to have the Auction taking place at the Mexican Cultural Institute. Transformer is proud to have The Ambassador of Mexico, His Excellency Arturo Sarukhan, and Mrs. Veronica Valencia-Sarukhan, as our first-time Diplomatic Chairs for this year’s Auction, along with Auction Co-Chairs Kate Damon, Xavier Equihua, Izette Folger, Janice Kim, and Peter Pappas. Click here for a list of our Auction Host Committee and Sponsors.

Tang
Singing Softly To Me

In addition to viewing and bidding on an eclectically curated mix of salon-style hung artworks, patrons are encouraged to groove to the beats of Djs Yellow Fever and special musical guests, while enjoying delicious complimentary hors d'oeuvres, wine and beer throughout the evening provided by some of DC's finest restaurants, including: Bar Pilar, Bistrot Lepic & Wine Bar, Blue Ridge, Buck’s Fishing & Camping, Café Saint-Ex, Casa Oaxaca, Comet Ping Pong, The Commissary, Commonwealth Gastropub, Hank’s Oyster Bar, Kendall’s Cakes, Leopold’s Kafe + Konditorei, Logan Tavern, Mandu, Marvin, Matchbox, Melt Catering, On the Fly, Oyamel, Paisley Fig, Posto, Radius, Red Velvet Cupcakery, Room 11, Sonoma, Ulah Bistro, and Whole Foods.

Lisa Marie Thalhammer
Lizard with Electric
Blue Nailpolish

With a growing reputation as an awesome party and fantastic opportunity for both beginning and seasoned collectors to purchase some of the best visual art DC has to offer, attendance to the auction is already close to sold out. Buy your tickets now! Attendance is $150 if received by 10.30.07; $175 after this date. Click here to download the Invitation PDF and Reply Card PDF.

Attendance is on a first paid, first secured basis – space is not guaranteed. All tickets must be purchased in advance of the Auction night. Tickets will not be sold at the event.

Carolina Mayorga
Love Me

Proceeds from The 6th Annual Transformer Silent Auction & Benefit Party will match recent grant awards, directly supporting artists through artist honoraria, exhibition material coasts, and related programming support. In addition to supporting exhibitions, proceeds will support artists through the funding of Transformer programs such as The Exercises - a peer-mentorship program for emerging artists, as well as The Framework Panel Series, and our ongoing professional development work to help artists help themselves.

Upcoming

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http://www.debtcollective.com/future.htm

Visit♥♥♥♥

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www.lauren-rice.com

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EDUCATION
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2008 MFA, Painting, American University, Washington, DC

2002 BA, Studio Art, Knox College, Galesburg, IL

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
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2009 Forthcoming December 2009: Org Contemporary, Detroit, MI, Vestiges,
(solo exhibition)

X-initiative, New York, NY, No Soul For Sale (with Transformer Gallery),

Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI, The Grand Bazaar: Annual Benefit Auction for MoCAD

Dow Gallery, Herbert H. and Barbara C. Dow Center for Visual Arts; Interlochen Center for the Arts, Faculty Exhibition

Chicago Art Department, Chicago, IL, 200 Lincolns

Metro Pictures, New York, NY, Postcards from the Edge

School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD, Lotta Art

555 Gallery, Detroit, MI, The Five Senses

2008 Transformer Gallery and Heineman Myers Contemporary Art,
Washington, DC, Paper Trail

The Bobby Fisher Memorial Building, Washington, DC, Girlish
Ways: The Next Generation of Female Artists

Fort Worth Community Art Center, Fort Worth, TX, Works on Paper

College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI, Small Works

Civilian Art Center, Washington, DC, Quart Bag

Katzen Art Museum, Washington, DC, Proximity

Nance Street Studios, Houston, TX, Experimental Drawing

2007 Nicholas A. Colasanto Center, Alexandria, VA, Tribute to All Things Magical

DC Arts Center, Washington, DC, 1460 Wall Mountables

Katzen Art Museum, Washington, DC, Other

Crystal City, VA, Artomatic, collaborative installation project with Kelly Ulcak and
Katherine Knight

2006 Atlanta, GA, Art to Market, Represented by Lisa Kabus

2004 The Atlanta Civic Center, Atlanta, GA, The Trinity Artist’s Market

2003 Welfair Art Group, MJQ, Atlanta, GA, Collaborative Efforts

2002 Apache Gallery, Atlanta, GA, Lauren Rice: Artist’s Talk

Knox College, Galesburg, IL, There Are No Such Things as Still Lives: New Paintings

PUBLICATIONS
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2008 The House That Borf Built is Closing, by Kriston Capps, The DCist, www.thedcist.com

Thinking About Art: Who’s Who in the DC Art World, by JT Kirkland, http://thinkingaboutart.blogs.com/art/2008/08/whos-who-in-the-dc-art-world.html

Girlish Ways: Final Show at Bobby Fisher Memorial, 88 Culture, http://www.eightyeightdc.com/88culture/?p=60

Gotta Quit the Undercut, by Alex Epstein, thereweretentigers.blogspot.com

2007-2008 Artifice: Fear and Loathing in DC, www.artificeau.blogspot.com

2001,1999 Catch Magazine, Knox College, Galesburg, IL

AWARDS
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2008 Mellon Research Grant, American University, Washington, DC
2006-2008 Merit Scholarship, American University, Washington, DC
2000, 2002 Al Young Award, Knox College, Galesburg, IL
1998-2002 Visual Arts Scholarship, Knox College, Galesburg, IL
1998-2002 Hermann Muelder Scholarship, Knox College, Galesburg, IL

New! Newer! Newest!

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Works on Paper

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All Things Green, 2009

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New Small Works! (Deceptively Small, Divisively Kitsch)

2008-11-14T10:55:00.000-08:00

Lauren Rice: Nature's Bounty

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Fruits of My Labor

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