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From 1965-1979 Ray Rice produced over 40 independent experimental art films. He wrote: “I have been a working artist all of my adult life, interrupted only by service as an officer of black troops during World War II. After the war I worked with architects on a large scale making mosaic murals and sculpture. During […]
Ray collaborated on three artist’s books with his daughter, printer and publisher Felicia Rice of Moving Parts Press. Together they integrated his drawings into letterpress printed pages of poems by contemporary authors. According to Felicia, working with her father was a true honor. “He was a real professional, his work was deeply considered and always […]
A comprehensive article about Ray’s mosaic work, “Sacred Art,” was researched and written by Dave Weinstein, and published in CA Modern. It is available here. And a list of projects from the 1950s is available here: Ray-Rice-projects. For some of the thinking behind the Art and Architecture Movement of the 1950-60s in the San Francisco Bay Area, […]
Ray Rice painted throughout his 65-year career as a working artist. He experimented with paints, surfaces, sizes, shapes, assemblage, styles, intent, while pursuing a series of questions about painting: What is painting? What can it do? How? A selection of his paintings appear on this site organized largely by media, but also by period and […]
Raymond C. Rice was a painter, sculptor, mosaicist, printmaker, filmmaker, musician, writer, poet, and teacher. His work was exhibited all over the world, including the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco and the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and is held in both public and private collections. Ray was […]