Local artist's new exhibit gets some love from WashPo

Detroit, argues the Washington Post, doesn't need another Robocop -- or even another hero. What it needs, writes Kristin Capps, are artists like our own Lauren Rice, a DC transplant whose new solo show, Heirlooms, "creates work that references urban decay and land reclamation without documenting Detroit in a didactic fashion." Or, to heap the praise on even more, Rice is the kind of artist our city deserves.

Excerpt:

Once a mixed-media artist whose interests mirrored those of found-object artist Jessica Stockholder, Rice has distinguished herself through her use of color, in particular through violently bright neons she subdues using the despairing grays of urban blight. Her work weighs decay through a feminine vocabulary of beads, flowers and graffiti, creating a non-moralistic document of urban degradation.

Heirlooms is currently on display at Transformer in Logan Circle. Read the review here.