At once sculpture, collage, and painting, Lauren Rice’s newest work is a playful experiment in materials, process, and making marks. The leading character, the scrap - which on its surface doesn’t seem to hold much merit - is invited and repurposed to find new meanings and values. This gathering of seemingly inconsequential bits and pieces is of critical importance to Rice; in bringing disparate pieces together, she forms a new, unified whole. Each part speaks of the individual and the community, order and chaos, control and chance, and elegance and awkwardness.
