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Art Rice has an uncanny
ability to create strong, high-impact images that imprint
a unique memory in the viewer’s mind. Whether shooting
his own digital images or scanning hand-drawn sketches,
he takes advantage of his balanced sense of composition
and his knack for exploiting his subject’s artistic
potential. Once establishing his representational ground,
he then uses electronic versions of brushes, filters, etc.,
to produce images unattainable through conventional photographic
tools. In Red Tulip, beginning with a beautiful,
yet unremarkable blossom, he manipulates the image, intensifying
the colors to sensuous turquoise and hot oranges, and softening
the edges to give the effect of watercolor. In Front
Porch Brick he photographed his own front porch, and
then enhanced the colors with hue and saturation, cropping
the image tight enough that it pops with brilliance
and abstraction.
Rice’s art has been published by
Personality Posters of New York and KRS Studios,
as well as by other publishing companies. His works have
been included in Prop Art, written by Gary D. Yanker,
in MacWorld magazine, MacDesign, Graphic
Design USA, and Mactalk.
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