Tina Rice - Designer/Artist/Student of Life
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ARTIST STATEMENT:

My career is based in the graphic design industry, specifically website design. I love working with people, images and text, and getting their site to reflect their business, goals, etc. As an artist my goals are somewhat different, I create themes, stories that tell not only about myself but touch on our cultural conditions as well--various addictions, institutional practices, and power struggles. I believe I have discovered a niche for myself in the contemporary art world by creating installation art and I hope to continue representing societal discourse through my artwork.

I have moved away from the viewer looking at my work on just a computer monitor and moved into installation art practices where more than one person can interact with the piece at the same time, but I still use the computer, as a tool, to enhance my environments.

I also enjoy photography, collage, and digital collage work. Photography gets me out into this world of ours; collage does the same thing, because I have to go out and gather unique/interesting objects. When I am creating digital collage I use appropriated images, scanned images of collected objects, and my own photography, and text.

As I look back at my fairly brief experience at creating art I have come to realize that all of my art has been based on identity, story telling, in essence my "becoming"--an artist, a designer, a student of life. What I love most about creating art is getting charged-up about an idea/concept, translating experience into imagery, when the work comes together as a whole and portrays what I am trying to say, and especially if it makes a social impact on the viewer.

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