Relentless Melt
Group Exhibition
March 5 – 26, 2022
Frankie Rice
Genvoya, 2019.
Prescription bottles and glue
10 x 2.5 x 3 in
Unique
Frankie Rice
Truvada (back), 2012
Prescription bottles and glue
11 x 7 x 2 in
Unique
Frankie Rice
Truvada, 2012
Prescription bottles and glue
11 x 7 x 2 in
Unique
Frankie Rice
02666, 2018
Granite
28 x 30 x 6 in
Unique
Frankie Rice
11216, 2011
Wood, aluminum, steel nuts ,bolts, oil paint, spray paint and paper
104 x 66 x 24 in
Unique
Frankie Rice
02666, 2018
Granite
28 x 30 x 6 in
Unique
Frankie Rice
Anonymous, 2019
Mixed media
5 x 2 x 3 in
Unique
Frankie Rice
The Arches (installation view).
October 26 - December 6, 2019
LAUNCH F18, New York
Frankie Rice
Goiter, 2018
Granite
39 x 21 x 7 in
Unique
Frankie Rice
Goiter (detail), 2018
Granite
39 x 21 x 7 in
Unique
Frankie Rice
Atripla, 2012
Mixed media
11 x 7 x 2 in
Unique
Frankie Rice
Untitled #2, 2011
Plastic pill bottles
11 x 7 x 1.5 in
Unique
Frankie Rice
Slap, 2019
Marble and black granite
46 x 29 x 1.75 in
Unique
Frankie Rice
Flamer, 2008
C print
40 x 30 in
Edition of 5
Frankie Rice
Andy, 2011
Wood, aluminum, steel nuts, steel bolts
104 x 66 x 24 in
Frankie Rice
Portal, 2016
Granite
35 x 38 x 6 in
Unique
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
Education
2004 Visual Arts Fellowship, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
2001 Summer Workshops, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME
1999-2001 Studied Painting and Drawing, Parsons the New School for
Design, New York, NY
Solo Exhibitions
2019 The Arches, LAUNCH F18, New York
2012 Solo, LAUNCH F18, New York, NY
2005 Arch, Bartlett Gallery, Provincetown MA
2004 Solo, Bangs Street Gallery, Provincetown MA
Group Exhibitions
2021 LAUNCH F18: 10 Years, LAUNCH F18, Online Viewing Room
2020 Infinite_Now, LAUNCH F18, New York, NY
2019 Soup, Curated by Gio Black Peter & Alex Schmitz, 50 Taafe Place,
Brooklyn, NY
2018 The Violators, Leslie-Lohman Museum, New York, NY
2018 Gesticulation, Lamontagne Gallery, Boston, MA
2016 All Of A Sudden, The Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2013 (con)Text, Sharon Arts Center, Peterborough, NH
2012 Peep At Ptown, Ken Fulk, San Francisco, CA
Nathan Dilworth & Frankie Rice, Art Current, Provincetown, MA
2011 Wrestle, LAUNCH F18, New York, NY
2009 One Night Stand, Envoy Enterprises, New York NY
2007 Eliminate, Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2006 The Name Of This Show Is Not: GAY ART NOW, Paul Kasmin Gallery,
New York, NY
2004 Voice, Bangs Street Gallery, Provincetown MA
2001 Risk, Bangs Street Gallery, Provincetown MA
1999 Pure, Bangs Street Gallery, Provincetown MA
Bibliography
2019 Ryzik, Melena. "John Waters, the Man Who Brought Us Divine and Loves
Brown Art." The New York Times. May 23
2012 Sutton, Benjamin. "Frankie Rice and Katrin Sigurdardóttir Build Big
Structures and SmallStages." The L Magazine. February 15
2002 "An Engulfing Dark." Bay Windows. August 8
Frankie Rice was born in Truro, Massachusetts and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and on the Outer Cape in Massachusetts. Previous exhibitions include “The name of this show is not: GAY ART NOW” curated by Jack Pierson, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY (2006); “Eliminate” curated by John Waters, Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA (2007); “Wrestle,” Launch F18, New York, NY (2011); "(con)Text, curated by Tim Donovan, Sharon Arts Center, Peterborough, NH (2013), and "The Violators," Leslie-Lohman Museum, New York, NY (2018). Rice’s most recent solo exhibition, “The Arches” opened at LAUNCH F18, New York in October, 2019.
"I believe in art telling a story. Even if my last piece is drastically different from my first, I want it to be known how I got there." Frankie Rice had the chance to speak at legnth with artist and writer, Rafael Soldi at Strange Fire Collective to discuss his artwork, practice and inspriration he draws from working on the outer Cape Cod of Massachusetts.
Despite his apathy towards promotion, Frankie Rice is cementing himself as one of the artworld’s favourites. Conceptually-focussed as well as technically impressive, Rice transforms found-objects and stone into architectural structures.
In their respective installations in tiny Tribeca project spaces—sixth floor walk-in closet-sized gallery Launch F18 and Art In General‘s ground-floor storefront room—Brooklyn-based Frankie Rice and Icelandic part-time New Yorker Katrin Sigurdardóttir have irreverently manipulated archetypal architectural forms.
