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My Friend Fahima

Fahima Ashori is one of the bravest people I know. She is a visual artist who was living in Afghanistan. As an active and independent woman,

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Stanley Bielen

Rice Polak 2023 Catalog

Once again, we’ve made it easy to enjoy our artist’s works and to get to know them a little better with our online catalog. It has over 50 pages

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Les Seifer

Welcome Les Seifer

I have the great pleasure of introducing you to the work of Les Seifer. Seifer’s work is well thought out and deliberate. His mediums include

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Julie Levesque

First Feature Exhibition 2022

The Rice Polak Gallery is excited to announce our first feature exhibition of the 2022 season. We will be exhibiting the work of Ellen LeBow, Julie Levesque, Necee Regis &

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Thornley

First 2021 Feature Exhibition

The Rice Polak Gallery is excited to announce our first feature exhibition of the 2021 season. We will be exhibiting the work of Bruce Ackerson, Peter Arvidson, Mike Stilkey

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"Foretell" by Michele Harvey

New York Art Visit

“Foretell” by Michele Harvey Exciting news from the Rice Polak Gallery! I just returned from three wonderful weeks in NYC. Besides seeing Hamilton (yes it

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"Dora Maar" - Pablo Picasso

Do I Repeat Myself?

“Do I contradict myself? So I contradict myself! I am large, I contain multitudes!” -Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass As a young artist in my

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"Fetch" Rebecca Kincaid

Thems is Us

There is not an animal on earth, or in our unearthly imaginations, that has not been endowed with human meaning beyond its perfect “is-ness.” The

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Rembrandt

What is it Anyway?

“For me she’s the weeping woman. For years I’ve painted her in tortured forms, not through sadism, and not with pleasure, either; just obeying a

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Reubens

The Dark Side of Light

TENEBRISM: from the Italian, tenebroso (murky) – a style of chiarpscuro painting using violent contrasts of light and dark, where darkness becomes a dominating feature

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Stilled Life

Stilled Life “I have fallen in love with a painting. Though that phrase doesn’t seem to suffice … rather it’s that I have been drawn

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Cave Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc

The Point of No Return

After listening to a radio piece about the discovery of France’s newest, oldest cave full of prehistoric drawings, the title of this entry was going

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