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Rice's project for his master's degree will be a number of art pieces about the Willamette River.
Willamette River inspires artist
By Melissa Martin
Of the Emerald
The Willamette River rolls through Ed Rice's
mind like the Tombigbee River 12 miles away from
his Mississippi home used to do.
Rice, a master of fine arts degree candidate and
CTF for Prof. Laverne Krause at the University has
paintings and prints on display in Gallery 141 in
Lawrence Hall. Today is the last day for the display.
When Rice was biking one day, he stopped to
sketch the Willamette River, came back to his
Lawrence Hall studio and created a silkscreen that
expressed his experience on that landscape.
“My ideas come from everyday life, from land
scapes and places I've been to. Maybe something
happened to me at that place," Rice says.
The Tombigbee river became a "pork barrel,"
project when a Corp of Engineers turned it into a
waterway, bulldozing through trees and curves in the
river and creating stagnant ponds. Now engineers
want to build water pumps to correct the situation.
"I think they were trying to ensure themselves
more work. They won't admit they were making a
mistake," he says.
"They (the people of the area) had been sold a lot
of B.S."
Rice came to Oregon after graduating from
Belhaven College in (ackson where he left a small
community of artists behind in Mississippi. His
friends told him it was beautiful here.
"People are politically aware here," Rice says.
The Tombigbee River scandal never would have hap
pened in Oregon, he says.
Because Rice doesn't want to have tunnel vision,
he doesn't consider himself just a painter or a print
maker. He is an artist first, he says.
"The ideas should come most importantly and
secondly would be the media by which you express
those ideas," he says.
Rice thinks every piece hanging in the gallery
could have something more. In this way, he is a
perfectionist.
"He's been the most committed, knowledgeable,
silk screen printer that's been here since I've been
here — 13 years," says Ken Paul, print making pro
fessor in the University fine arts department.
"He's very talented," Paul says.
According to Paul, artists may have trouble com
municating their ideas because viewers don't always
see the artist's message. "His images rely on
representations," Paul says.
Printmaking is not just reproducing a piece of
art, Paul says. The printmaker is creating while he is
printing. Not all the decisions about what will be in a
piece are made before the work is done.
Rice’s terminal project for his master's degree
will be a series of pieces about the Willamette River.
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