New Fine Art Show: Rooted Yesteryear 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 USA (Philadelphia, PA) together with 1 hither inward Canada (Victoria, BC).  The begin 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 accept used artifacts; flora items together with uncommon mediums: prints on antique handwritten letters of beloved together with loss, feed sack bags from my household unit of measurement farm, antique atlas pages, together with the string from terminal year’s morn glories amid 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 contention subsequently the jump.

Full Artist Statement for Rooted:

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

Each wintertime 4-H kids conduct their projects for the twelvemonth from a catalogue listing all the things you lot tin larn inward at the County fair. Of course of didactics in that place are the farm beast projects exactly likewise all sorts of arts together with crafts, pocket-sized engine repair, gardening together with crops, baking, sciences, sewing, music, butterfly collecting together with to a greater extent than (my Mom would never permit me produce the butterfly project). Then, kids run across alongside adult mentors together with kids from other clubs throughout the county working on the same project. My parents wanted us to hold upward excited together with fully committed to our projects together with together with then nosotros were express to three per year. I settled into sheep, rabbits, together with art.

For a contemporary urban woman, I know a lot well-nigh pocket-sized beast husbandry. I don’t mean value the fine art business office 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 alongside an halt goal.

The antique scrapbook was aesthetically together with nostalgically compelling to me, certainly. But the argue I conduct to brand fine art inspired yesteryear the scrapbook came from comparison photos of individuals posing proudly alongside 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 accept used artifacts; flora items together with uncommon mediums: prints on antique handwritten letters of beloved together with loss, feed sack bags from my household unit of measurement farm, antique atlas pages, together with the string from terminal year’s morn glories amid 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

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