David Michael Rice

Text Box: I prefer to call my work Neo-functional Art, because, I find most of my materials in junkyards, dumpsters, and from friends. These materials once had a function they were utilitarian they served a purpose and were thrown away; I found them and gave them new function with an aesthetic/interactive objective. I am best known for my kinetic interactive sculpture and combining stained glass with computer panels.

Text Box: Iron and Glass I started my own company that creates iron and glass products such as wrought iron fences, gates, arbors, window bars, sculpture, handrails, furniture, ornamentation, as well as, stained glass windows, overlays, and lamps.

All of my life I have always enjoyed inventing things like impossible machines and science experiments, but I didn’t consider it art.

I studied social work, philosophy, and aviation at

Eastern KY. University, and Northern KY. University.

I graduated and started to work in the social work field and gravitated toward art therapy type of positions.

I studied painting from 1994-1998.

I eventually stopped painting to concentrate on sculpture and mixed media - returning to what I did as a child and young man. I tinker with the things that I find. Take them apart and put them back together in ways they’re not supposed to go and make them do things they were not intended to do.