Delightful:
Jennifer Davis and Amy Rice
For Immediate Release:
Rosalux Gallery is proud to announce the upcoming exhibition, Delightful, recent work by Jennifer Davis and Amy Rice
Opening reception with the artists: Thursday, August 17th from 7-11pm
Show runs: August 15-Sept. 2nd
Rosalux Gallery is located at 1011 Washington Ave. South, Minneapolis, MN
Regular hours: Tuesday – Thursday, noon – 8pm, Friday – Sunday, noon – 5pm
Admission is FREE
Minneapolis mixed media artists Jennifer Davis and Amy Rice both create narrative images that delight and surprise. Both artists are immensely prolific in their work and are well established locally. Additionally both artists have recently begun to receive national attention, showing their work in galleries in other major U.S. cities. A special treat for the fans of Davis’s and Rice’s work will be the premiering of the highly anticipated series of collaborative pieces that Davis and Rice have been working on over the past 16 months. Combining and sharing techniques and imagery they have achieved a body of work that is familiar, yet entirely new and unique.
Jennifer Davis has lived all of her life in Minnesota. She discovered her passion for painting and drawing at the University of Minnesota and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1998. Jennifer has shown her work in several galleries in Minnesota, New York, Vermont and North Carolina and has been a member of Rosalux Gallery in Minneapolis since 2002. Collecting found images is an obsession for me. I am inspired by the satisfaction that I get from combining paint with images torn from magazines and newspapers and giving them new life. Painting is a daily ritual for me and by finishing most of my works in one sitting I am able to use art as a journal for my ideas, experiences and memories. There is little or no planning involved in any of my paintings, rather they develop specifically through the artmaking process. The narratives become apparent through cutting, pasting, painting, layering and sanding. Making art is a release for me. It is my hope that others will find wonder in my images which may then spark their own imaginations. –Jennifer Davis
Rice’s work is produced using a unique technique by means of stencils that she designs and cuts herself and a variety of mediums to produce work that employs quasi-repetitive imagery in fresh new ways. Her backgrounds are not only canvas, but barn shingles and cupboard doors as well, adding to the depth and layering inherent in her chosen medium. She has used her exclusive technique to produce work small enough to be exhibited in a miniatures show at a Minneapolis gallery and large enough for her to be a sought after muralist. The Mayor of Minneapolis has credited Rice for assisting in the rebirth of a blighted Minneapolis neighborhood for her mural work both as an independent artist and as an organizer of community mural activities. 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, childhood toys, vintage botanical prints, her dog Ella, bicycles, street art, and random found objects, collective endeavors that challenge hierarchy, acts of compassion, downright silliness and things with wings.
Rosalux Gallery is funded and managed by its 24 artist members. Consumers buy direct from the artist who creates the work. Rosalux is a vibrant and growing community of Twin Cities artists working together to help build not only each others' careers, but also the Twin Cities' art community.
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