Andrew Rice – BOOOOOOOM! – CREATE * INSPIRE * COMMUNITY * ART * DESIGN * MUSIC * FILM * PHOTO * PROJECTS

Salt Lake Metropolis, Utah-based artist Andrew Rice repurposes outdated comedian guide imagery in his latest collection of collages, “A Future We Had been Promised. A Future That By no means Got here.” Drawing largely from the comedian books of his childhood, the completed collages are imbued with a way of nostalgia. “I’m drawn into the youthful optimism the comedian guide imagery holds,” he explains. “This concept of the longer term we have been promised. A future that by no means got here.”

Rice’s background in printmaking is obvious in his collage-making course of, from the layering and texture-building, to the meticulous reducing and inserting. “It isn’t as essential to me in the mean time to make my very own, distinctive marks, however somewhat use a visible catalog that already exists to create a brand new piece,” he says. “An creator, or poet hardly ever creates a brand new world, however can nonetheless inform a completely authentic story with the phrases out there of their language. I’m collage in an analogous manner. Utilizing the photographs which can be already at my disposal to inform a brand new, however acquainted story. “

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