Edward Rice

“These images haunt the imagination …”
Kevin Grogan
Director, Morris Museum of Art
Augusta, GA

“ Rice has the ambition to create art of the first order … “
Peter Morrin
Former Curator of Contemporary Art
High Museum of Art
Atlanta GA

“ … a fine sense of scale, of design, and color.”
Nicolai Cikovsky
Former Curator of American Art
National Gallery of Art
Washington, D.C.

“The varietal range that the artist sucks out of a single subject is remarkable.”
Dan Cameron
Independent Curator
New York NY

“For more than three decades, Edward Rice has produced art on a level arguably unparalleled in South Carolina.”
Wim Roef
Former Director 701 Center for Contemporary Art
Columbia, SC

“They seem, in their solidity and simplicity, deeply American, while their references are indebted to ancient cultic traditions.”
Eleanor Heartney
Art Critic and Writer
New York NY

“ Informed by the continued absorption of outside influences, yet following his own self motivated path, Rice’s work matured during the reemergence of a vigorous school of American realist painting. Although the development of the new realism made the critical climate more receptive to realist painting, Rice’s anachronistic realism was largely untouched by the conceptual elements of late modern art; it also lacked the irony, revivalism and media consciousness associated with Postmodernism.”
David Houston
Former Chief Curator
Ogden Museum of Southern Art
New Orleans, LA