✧ Winner of the 2021 Southeast Review Art Contest ✧
Selected by Ming Ying Hong
Lauren Rice
Moon Shapes, 2019
acrylic, gouache, graphite powder, canvas,
rubber band, and collage on cut paper
55 1/2 x 44 1/2 inches
Time Is a Sunset, 2022
graphite powder, acrylic, gouache, Flashe, spray
paint, canvas, glitter foam, stickers, and
sequins on cut, torn, and collaged paper
28 x 28 inches
Bad Moon Rising (XO), 2019 acrylic, gouache, spray paint, graphite powder,
canvas, and collage on cut paper
55 x 41 inches
The Maze, 2017–19 acrylic, gouache, graphite powder,
and collage on cut paper
55 x 44 inches
Head on the Ground, Feet in the Clouds, 2019 acrylic, gouache, spray paint, graphite
powder, ink, and collage on cut paper
55 x 44 1/2 inches
The Wrong Green, 2020 graphite powder, gouache, acrylic, Flashe, spray paint,
and glitter paint on cut and collaged paper
57 x 43 inches
Unearthed, 2020
graphite powder, gouache, acrylic, Flashe,
spray paint, canvas dropcloth, archival
digital prints, and string on cut paper
27 1/2 x 27 inches
Poor Pythagoras, 2014 latex, gouache, acrylic, spray paint, image
transfers, and collage on paper, wood, foam,
papier-mâché, plaster, and cement
120 x 84 x 24 inches
LAUREN RICE is a visual artist, writer, curator, and professor. She has exhibited her work in solo, collaborative, and group exhibitions at venues such as Cuchifritos Gallery and Project Space, New York; Vox Populi, Philadelphia; Tiger Strikes Asteroid, New York; Neon Heater, Findlay, Ohio; ICA Baltimore; The Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach; Transformer, Washington, DC; and Spring Break Art Show, New York, among many others. Rice has been a Fellowship Artist at The Kala Art Institute in Berkeley and an artist-in-residence at The Luminary in St. Louis. Her work has been published in New American Paintings, Maake Magazine, and VAST Magazine. Originally from Atlanta, Rice currently lives just outside of Richmond, Virginia, with her husband and artistic collaborator, Brian Barr, and their two children, Noa and Finn.