Amy Rice is a mixed media artist from Minneapolis, Minnesota.

She has exhibited her work extensively in galleries throughout the U.S., the U.K. and in Canada.

www.amyrice.com

Watch Amy working in her studio in this segment of Minnesota Original, a visual arts program on Minnesota Public Television:
http://www.mnoriginal.org/art/?p=2885

Amy Rice Artist Statement:

For the past ten years I have used nontraditional print-making methods--including hand cut stencils and a Japanese screen printing toy called a Gocco printer--as a starting point for original mixed media pieces. I use spray paint, acrylics, gouache, and inks, and print on antique papers (preferring handwritten love letters, envelopes, journal pages, sheet music and maps).

I am most satisfied when I can make a tangible or visceral connection between the materials used and the image rendered. My work is deeply layered, often both literally and figuratively. My imagery--nostalgic and wistful--is largely biographical and reflective of my pensive nature.

I am as inspired in my art by childhood memories of growing up on a Midwestern farm as I am the urban community in which I now live. I am inspired by bicycles, street art, gardening, random found objects, collective endeavors that challenge hierarchy, acts of compassion, downright silliness, and things with wings.