Project Description
Travis Rice (b.1968)
b. 1968 Elkhart, IN
Travis Rice is an artist currently residing in Phoenix, AZ where he teaches within the Fine Arts Department at Phoenix College. Originally from Elkhart, IN, he initially studied design at Ball State University and earned a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture. In 2017, he earned his MFA in drawing and painting from Arizona State University’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. Influenced by his background in architecture Travis incorporates both digital and analog processes to create complex hard-edge compositions that often deconstruct the natural and built landscape. His work is currently represented by Bentley Gallery in Phoenix, AZ and Moberg Gallery in Des Moines, IA.
EDUCATION
2017
MFA Drawing and Painting, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
2013
Post-Baccalaureate Study in Fine Arts, Iowa State University, Ames, IA.
1993
Master of Landscape Architecture Study, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI.
1991
Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, Ball State University, Muncie, IN., Cum Laude
AWARDS, GRANTS, AND HONORS
2016
Zhou B Spirit Award selected by the Zhou Brothers in recognition of outstanding talent.2016 Katherine Herberger Student Scholars Award
2015
New American Paintings, Competition Winner, Open Studios Press, Boston,MA (One of 40 artists selected out of 1000 applicants to have their work exhibited in the New American Paintings MFA Annual book)
2015
Arizona Artist’s Guild Marigold Linton Scholarship Award
2015
Arizona State University School of Art Special Talent Award
2011
Voted Gallery Exhibition of the Year by Cityview Magazine
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Pure Fluff, Bentley Gallery Project Room, Phoenix, AZ
2017
Fodderland, Step Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
2014
OBJECTive, CSPS Hall Main Gallery, Cedar Rapids, IA.
2013
Accumulation, Moberg Gallery, Des Moines, IA.
2012
Cotton Candy Cesspool, Pearson Lakes Art Center, Okoboji, IA.
2011
Contamination, Moberg Gallery, Des Moines, IA.
2008
Topographic Delusions, Hentschel Gallery, Des Moines, IA.
2007
Consumable Fragments, Fitch Gallery, Des Moines, IA.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Chaos Theory 23, Legend City, Phoenix, AZ
2023
Annual Summer Group Show, Bentley Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
2023
Line, Shape, Depth, Modified Arts, Phoenix, AZ
2022
Deep Time Digitality, Themes+Projects Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2022
Chaos Theory 22, Legend City, Phoenix, AZ
2021
Cadence, Bentley Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
2021
Winter Group Show, Moberg Gallery, Des Moines, IA
2021
Redefining the Creator Economy: A Survey of Digital Arts, MCC Art Gallery, Mesa, AZ
2021
The Really Really Good Abstract Show, Shockboxx Gallery, Hermosa Beach, CA
2021
Odyssey, The Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA 2021
2021
Chaos Theory 21, Legend City, Phoenix, AZ.
2021
NOMAD , The Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2020
Alternate Digital Aesthetics, Mood Room, Phoenix, AZ
2020
Annual Group Exhibition, Bentley Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
2020
$2500 x 18, Bentley Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
2020
Geometric Elegance: Art in the Age of Computational Beauty, Found:RE
Contemporary, Phoenix, AZ
2020
Group Exhibition, Anne & John P. Nelson Gallery -Pottawattamie Arts, Culture
& Entertainment (PACE) Council Bluffs, IA
2019 Color Spectrum, Bentley Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
2019
Annual Summer Show, Bentley Gallery, Phoenix, AZ 2019
Chaos Theory 20, Legend City, Phoenix, AZ.
2018 Works on Paper, Bentley Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
2018 Group Show, Moberg Gallery, Des Moines, AZ
2018 Chaos Theory 19, Legend City. Phoenix, AZ
2018 PHX ART NOW II, Fine Art Complex 1101, Tempe, AZ
2018 Synthetic Landscapes, Edwardsville Arts Center, Edwardsville, IL
2017
Abstraction in the Singular, Bentley Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
2017
Four Solos, Moberg Gallery, Des Moines, IA.
2016
Chaos Theory 17, Legend City, Phoenix, AZ
2016
Eleven, Eric Fischl Gallery of Phoenix College, Phoenix, AZ.
2016
Lisa Von Hoffner + Travis Rice, Modified Arts, Phoenix, AZ.
2016
National Wet Paint MFA Biennial, Zhou B. Art Center, Chicago, IL.
2016
Texas National 2016 Exhibition, SFA Galleries, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX.
2016
Geometry in the Expanded Field, Fine Art Complex 1101, Tempe, AZ.
2016
ExPats, Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN.
2016
Grey Area, Three person exhibition with AJ Nafziger/Jessica Palomo, MonOrchid Gallery, Phoenix, AZ.
2016
Mas Attack with ARTRA, Fine Art Complex 1101, Tempe, AZ.
2016
Surfacing, An Abstract Show, Brill House, Phoenix, AZ.
2015
InCept, {9} The Gallery, Phoenix, AZ.
2015
2 Conversations, Two person exhibit with Rachel Goodwin, Step Gallery, Phoenix, AZ.
2015
10th International Drawing Annual Publication, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH.
2015
35th Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition, Bradley Univ. Galleries, Peoria, IL.
2015
Order and Chaos, Xico Gallery, Phoenix, AZ.
2015
New Art Arizona, Shemer Art Center and Museum, Phoenix, AZ.
2015
All Art Arizona Juried Exhibition, Art Intersection, Gilbert, AZ.
2015
Summer Juried MFA Show, Harry Wood Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
2014
Works on Paper, Moberg Gallery, Des Moines, IA.
2014
New Grad Exhibition, Harry Wood Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
2014
Texas National 2014 Exhibition, SFA Galleries, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX.
2014
46th Clay Fiber Paper Glass Metal National Exhibition, Octagon Center for the Arts, Ames, IA.
2012
Artstop 2012, Des Moines, IA.
2012
10 Year Anniversary Exhibit, Moberg Gallery, Des Moines, IA.
2011
62nd Juried Exhibition, Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, IA.
2010
Annual Large Works Show, Icon Gallery, Fairfield, IA.
2009
Small Works Group Exhibit, Moberg Gallery, Des Moines,IA.
2009
Annual Large Works Show, Icon Gallery, Fairfield, IA.
2007
New Beginnings, Hentschel Gallery, Des Moines, IA.
2007
EVAC City Wide Online Juried Show, Des Moines, IA.
2006
Strands, Art 316 Open House Installation, Art 316, Des Moines, IA.
2006
Multiple Universes, Art 316 Installation, Art 316, Des Moines, IA.
2002
Faculty Group Exhibit, Gallery 181, Iowa State University, Ames, IA.
1998
50th Anniversary Iowa Artists Show, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA.
1998
13th Annual Greater Midwest International Exhibition, Central Missouri State University Art Gallery, Warrensburg, MO.
1997
Arts & Sustainability in the Iowa Landscape, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA.
1997
Art Show Nine, Hearst Center for the Arts, Cedar Falls, IA.
1997
Iowa Artists ’97, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA.
1996
Arts in Celebration Fifth Biennial Regional Exhibition, University Museum, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL.
1996
Iowa Artists ’96, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA.
PRIVATE AND PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
Aviva Corporate Headquarters, West Des Moines, IA.
Des Moines University, Des Moines, IA.
Dice.com Urbandale, IA.
Merchants Bonding Company, West Des Moines, IA.
Raven Industries, Sioux Falls, SD
Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Corporate Headquarters, Des Moines, IA.
PUBLICATIONS
2017
Create Magazine, Issue 5, 2017, pp. 20-25. Interview/Cover
2016
Trimble, Lynn. The 10 Best Artworks We Saw in Metro Phoenix in July 2016, Phoenix New Times, August 2, 2016.
2016
Jasmine. Colorful Shredded Paper Installations by Travis Rice, Strictly Paper, May 31, 2016.
2015
Plancarte, Fernanda. Travis Rice instaura el dominio cromático, Fahrenheit Magazine, June 1, 2015.
2015
Ginger, Colorful Shredded Paper Installations, HAHA Magazine, May10, 2015.
2015
Voynovskaya, Nastia. Travis Rice’s Rainbow –Hued Installations and Paintings, Hi Fructose Magazine, April 15, 2015.
2015
Griffis, Kelcee, Colorful Paper Installations by Travis Rice Made with a Document Shredder, My Modern Met, April 7, 2015.
2015
Davies, Craig, Installations made from Thousands of Pieces of Shredded Paper by Travis Rice, art-sheep, April 7, 2015.
2015
Nafziger, Christina, Travis Rice Creates Installations of Rainbow-Like Waves made from Thousands of Pieces of Shredded Paper, Beautiful Decay Magazine, April 6, 2015.
2015
New American Paintings. MFA Annual No. 117, Open Studio Press, Boston, MA, April/May Edition, 2015.
2015
10th International Drawing Annual Publication 2015, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH.
2014
Lidgett, Liz. Selfie Portraits, DSM, Sept./Oct. 2014.
2013
Morain, Michal. Public Art Foundation Commissions Project for Iowa State Fair, Des Moines Register Blog, August 7, 2013.
2011
Contamination Q/A, Moberg Gallery, 2011.
2011
Duncan, Jim. The Art of 2011, Iowa Artists Blog, December 22, 2011.
2011
Duncan, Jim. Coming this Week- Serious Fun, Cityview, July 21, 2011, page 44.
2011
Duncan, Jim. Travis Rice has Serious Fun, Iowa Artist’s Blog, July 18, 2011.
2011
Morain, Michael. Contaminating Art with Fun, Des Moines Register, July 17, 2011, page 5E.
2011
Lines, Angles, Shapes, Directions, Des Moines Register, July 14, 2011, page 5B.
2010
Sanchez, Brianne. The Future of Des Moines, Juice, March 31- April 6, 2010, page 21.
2008
Take a Closer Look and Wash Your Hands, Des Moines Register, February 24, 2008, page 5E.
2007
Citizen X, Art 316, Core Magazine, February 2007, page 11.
2005
Reid Sinnett, Molly. Your – Turn Tables, Do It Yourself , Winter 2005, pages 68-75.
2000
Martin, Michael; Seeger, Chris. The Integration of Thinking and Making: The Generator Project, IVLA (International Visual Literacy Association) 2000 Annual Conference Proceedings.
1998
Leveton, Deborah. Iowa Artists 1998, Iowa Artists Catalogue, March 1998, pages 60-61.
1998
Inselmann, Andrea. 13th Greater Midwest International Catalogue, May 1998, page 22.
1997
Leveton, Deborah. Iowa Artists ‘97, Iowa Artists Catalogue, March 1997, page 50.
1997
Grice, Gordon. Architecture in Perspective12, Rockport Publishing 1997, page 114.
1996
Grice, Gordon. Architecture in Perspective11, Rockport Publishing 1996, page 115.
1996
Leveton, Deborah. Iowa Artists ‘96, Iowa Artists Catalogue, March 1996, page 36.
1991
Dupont Antron Design Awards, Progressive Architecture, January 1991, page 38.
1990
Emmons, Becky. Carpet Design goes with the Flow, South Bend Tribune, June 11, 1990, page C6.
1990
Thompson, William, Student Showdown, Landscape Architecture, November 1990, page 69.
Arizona Foothills Magazine – It’s a Technicolor World for Artist Travis Rice
Travis Rice is a mixed media artist who brilliantly blends modernism, architecture and abstraction into a plethora of artwork that is both eye-catching and thought provoking. He creates work that ranges the gambit including cascading paper sculptures, massive drawings and candy colored paintings. His artwork utilizes traditional ideas of the romanticized landscape and southwest that he has amalgamated with contemporary techniques of 3-D modeling and a modernist sensibility.
New American Paintings MFA Annual – Travis Rice
I am interested in the most fundamental element of the graphic arts—the mark. I am currently exploring the idea of marks as objects and modules that repeat and evolve into larger nondescript forms. In my paintings, the process starts with a simple doodle or sketch made up of marks based on an abstract notion, such as an emotion or personality trait. This doodle serves as a generator from which I can extrude three-dimensional forms via the computer and 3D modeling software.
Greater Des Moines Public Art Foundation – Travis Rice
A native of Iowa, Travis Rice makes use of geometric forms and colorful materials to create simple and playful abstractions. He has created artworks on both a large and small scale, in both two and three-dimensional formats
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