New Fine Art Show: Rooted Past Times Amy Rice

One of my favourite artists, Amy Rice has 2 shows happening this calendar month together with what's cool is 1 is inward the United States of America (Philadelphia, PA) together with 1 hither inward Canada (Victoria, BC).  The get-go 1 I'm mentioning is Rooted, at the Art Star Gallery inward Philadelphia, PA. (October seventh through Nov 20th)

In this trunk of work, I convey used artifacts; institute items together with uncommon mediums: prints on antique handwritten letters of beloved together with loss, feed sack bags from my menage unit of measurement farm, antique atlas pages, together with the string from concluding year’s morning time glories amidst other things. Rooted celebrates 100% completion, difficult function paying off, autumn festivals, together with earnest endeavors.-Amy Rice 2011 

Read to a greater extent than of the artist's controversy afterward the jump.

Full Artist Statement for Rooted:

“Rooted” was inspired past times a scrapbook I discovered at an antique store. It documents the activities of a rural American 4-H monastic enjoin inward the 1940’s. I belonged to 4-H equally a child, the same monastic enjoin equally my Mom together with my Grandpa Ed (Go Hubbleton Hustlers!).

Each wintertime 4-H kids direct their projects for the twelvemonth from a catalogue listing all the things you lot tin travel inward at the County fair. Of course of report in that place are the farm creature projects merely too all sorts of arts together with crafts, modest engine repair, gardening together with crops, baking, sciences, sewing, music, butterfly collecting together with to a greater extent than (my Mom would never allow me create the butterfly project). Then, kids come across amongst adult mentors together with kids from other clubs throughout the county working on the same project. My parents wanted us to endure excited together with fully committed to our projects together with together with therefore nosotros were express to three per year. I settled into sheep, rabbits, together with art.

For a contemporary urban woman, I know a lot most modest creature husbandry. I don’t intend the fine art purpose of 4-H actually shaped me much equally an artist. What was formative for me was the twelvemonth long commitment to a specific expanse of report together with a corresponding projection amongst an destination goal.

The antique scrapbook was aesthetically together with nostalgically compelling to me, certainly. But the argue I direct to brand fine art inspired past times the scrapbook came from comparison photos of individuals posing proudly amongst their ongoing projects together with the autumn grouping photo, which is labeled inward handwritten ink “100% Completion, twenty members, 28 projects”.

In this trunk of work, I convey used artifacts; institute items together with uncommon mediums: prints on antique handwritten letters of beloved together with loss, feed sack bags from my menage unit of measurement farm, antique atlas pages, together with the string from concluding year’s morning time glories amidst other things. Rooted celebrates 100% completion, difficult function paying off, autumn festivals, together with earnest endeavors.-Amy Rice 2011

Art Star Gallery & Boutique
23 North sec Street
Philadelphia, PA