The “Dark Reflections” series explores the many layers of visual perception produced by light, shadows and reflections on a variety of objects, images, and experiences. As the empirical world is ordered by geometry, so are my paintings. Each plane or rectangle records a specific time in a single location. Chairs move as conversations end, branches bend and break and we have to determine what is real and what is only a reflection.

Nancy Newman Rice has recently retired from being the Director of Art and Design Programs at Maryville University in St. Louis. Her work was featured in the prestigious Currents Exhibition Series at the St. Louis Art Museum in 1979.  She employs the pointillist technique of applying paint not only to enhance the intricacy of the images but also the vibrancy of the colors.  Her images come from art history, family photographs, and dreams. 

Education
1974 MFA, Washington University, St. Louis
1972 BFA, Washington University, St. Louis
1968 Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Selected Recent Exhibitions
2007 St. Louis University Museum of Art, St. Louis MO
         Duane Reed Gallery, St Louis MO
2005 Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis
         Innsbrook Resort and Conference Center, Wright City, MO
2004 Selections from St. Louis Galleries, Chesterfield Arts Gallery, Chesterfield, MO
2003 Palm Beach International Art Fair, R. Duane Reed Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
2002 Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, MO
         A Modern Bestiary, The Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
2000 Of World and Self, Women Artists in St. Louis, Innsbrook Conference Center, Wright City, MO,
         Print Invitational, St. Louis Community College, St. Louis, MO
1999 Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts, St. Bonaventure Univ., NY
1998 R. Duane Reed Gallery, Chicago, IL
         Solo Exhibition, Laumeier International Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO
1997 St. Louis: The City Series, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA
1996 Art St. Louis XII, Juror: J.W. Mahoney, Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum
1994 Honor Award Exhibit, Art St. Louis, Northwestern University, IL
1993 Solo Exhibit, Museum Gallery, Southeast Missouri State Univ., Cape Girardeau
1991 Solo Exhibit, Sazama Gallery, Chicago, IL
         American Landscape, Novus Gallery, Atlanta, GA