Rachel Kice is a multidisciplinary artist working in painting, writing, installation, and performance. Her practice centers on creativity as a transformative force—how making shapes both self and reality.

Based in the Pike National Forest in Colorado since 2024, she is developing Shapes of Earth, a new series of abstract paintings and objects made in dialogue with her novel-in-progress. Many of the works are created directly on the forest floor, incorporating snow, dirt, and found materials. The series began as an experiment: to write a protagonist who painted differently than she did. To understand that character, Kice began painting as the character might—and over time, the boundary between fiction and self dissolved. The story and paintings now evolve together.

Kice first gained recognition for her expressive live-painting performances with Nashville’s artist collective MuzikMafia, sharing the stage with Big & Rich, Gretchen Wilson, and other major American musicians. Her paintings are included in public and private collections such as the Tennessee State Museum, Warner Brothers, Sony, Berklee College of Music, and CAA. She has also collaborated with TEDx, MUSICARES, Emerson University’s Center for Contemplative Science and Compassion-Based Ethics, and Crocs/Hey Dude.

In 2021, her Oracle of Associated Light—a card deck and guidebook based on abstract word paintings—was selected as a Kickstarter “Project We Love.” The project bridged her visual and literary work and offered a tool for creative reflection and lateral thinking.

Kice shares her process through short-form videos on Instagram (@rachelkice)—some raw, some funny, always tied to her ongoing investigation of art, meaning, and emotion.

When not making art, she’s likely off-path in the woods—or at home with her stunning dog, Prince.