August 10 – November 30, 2023
Kim Rice and Paul Rucker are both prolific makers of labor-intensive, colorful, immersive works of art that captivate and inform. Both repurpose unusual and historic materials with an ability to harvest the hidden stories that animate these objects and challenge common assumptions about our collective history as Americans.
Beyond this, both artists are fearlessly, passionately socially engaged and their work is informed by injustice in America. Research is primary to their process and historical documents, events, and statistical data is interpreted in surprising ways through new translations of familiar forms. In an America where our collective history is being actively redacted, purged, and politicized, Rice and Rucker’s multimedia sculptures, metaphor-laden images, and conceptual pieces take on additional urgency.
