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Michael Rich Art

American, b. 1968
The paintings, drawings, and prints of Michael Rich reflect an approach to nature and landscape as a wellspring for spiritual investigation and meditation through the contemporary language of gestural abstraction. A lifelong, Summer resident of Nantucket Island, time spent around the ocean and a landscape of great beauty has helped to shape love and interest in the natural rhythms of color that remain a focal point in his work today. With an awareness of the opposing elements of nature’s serenity and tenacity, Rich investigates the harmony and irascibility of the natural world through opacity and translucency of color. Light, space, and weather become marks and shapes of color in poetic spaces of memory while close observations of the delicate forms in the landscape become drawn or incised marks meant to be both descriptive and expressive. Whether in large- scale paintings or smaller drawings and etchings, Michael Rich aims to discover meaning in a landscape of intimacy through a language that is visceral, physical and colorful. Recently featured museum exhibitions include The Bristol Art Museum, RI; The Newport Art Museum, RI and the Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville Arkansas. Rich is the recipient of the Basil H. Alkazzi Award (USA) and was included in Sotheby’s auction series, International Young Art. His work is featured in private and public collections nationally including, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY; Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA and the Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH. Michael Rich lives and works in Providence, RI and Nantucket MA and is a Professor and Chair of Visual Arts at Roger Williams University, Bristol, Rhode Island.
(Biography provided by Thornwood Gallery)
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Artist: Michael Rich
Signs of Life
By Michael Rich
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting is in excellent condition and has only been shown in a gallery setting. The paintings, drawings and prints of Michael Rich reflect an approach to nature and landscap...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Michael Rich Art

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Canvas, Wax, Oil

Sunday
By Michael Rich
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting is in excellent condition and has only been shown in a gallery setting. The paintings, drawings and prints of Michael Rich reflect an approach to nature and landscape ...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Michael Rich Art

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Canvas, Wax, Oil

Solitudes of Sky
By Michael Rich
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting is in excellent condition and has only been shown in a gallery setting. The paintings, drawings and prints of Michael Rich reflect an approach to nature and landscap...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Michael Rich Art

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Canvas, Wax, Oil

The pond
By Michael Rich
Located in Fairfield, CT
In paintings, drawings and prints, Michael Rich explores the beauty and irascibility of the natural world through an approach to painting that is visceral, physical and colorful. Of...
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2010s Contemporary Michael Rich Art

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Paper, Watercolor

A reach
By Michael Rich
Located in Fairfield, CT
In paintings, drawings and prints, Michael Rich explores the beauty and irascibility of the natural world through an approach to painting that is visceral, physical and colorful. Of...
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2010s Contemporary Michael Rich Art

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Canvas, Oil

Hillside olives
By Michael Rich
Located in Fairfield, CT
In paintings, drawings and prints, Michael Rich explores the beauty and irascibility of the natural world through an approach to painting that is visceral, physical and colorful. Of...
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2010s Contemporary Michael Rich Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Late Winter Variations II
By Michael Rich
Located in Fairfield, CT
Michael Rich’s early years were spent in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains and surrounded by the waters of New England. Graduate studies and later travels to Italy heightened an awareness of the opposing elements of the Mediterranean landscape’s serenity and nature’s tenacity. In his paintings, drawings and prints Rich investigates the natural rhythms of nature’s harmony and irascibility through opacity and translucency of color. A dedicated practitioner of yoga, Rich is influenced greatly by Eastern philosophy and art in an approach to nature and landscape as a wellspring for spiritual investigation and meditation. Lately, however, my work has been picking up on the smaller moments in the landscape - not the broad sweeping vistas of the Italian countryside or the New England shore...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Michael Rich Art

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Monoprint

Arrangement
By Michael Rich
Located in Fairfield, CT
Mixed media on paper. This piece is unframed.
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2010s Michael Rich Art

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Paper, Mixed Media

View From Above
By Michael Rich
Located in Fairfield, CT
Michael Rich’s early years were spent in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains and surrounded by the waters of New England. Graduate studies and later travels to Italy heightened an...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Michael Rich Art

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Canvas, Oil, Wax

Locust
By Michael Rich
Located in Fairfield, CT
In paintings, drawings and prints, Michael Rich explores the beauty and irascibility of the natural world through an approach to painting that is visceral, physical and colorful. Of...
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2010s Contemporary Michael Rich Art

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Paper, Watercolor

Heartspace
By Michael Rich
Located in Fairfield, CT
In paintings, drawings and prints, Michael Rich explores the beauty and irascibility of the natural world through an approach to painting that is visceral, physical and colorful. Of...
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2010s Contemporary Michael Rich Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Summer lillies
By Michael Rich
Located in Fairfield, CT
In paintings, drawings and prints, Michael Rich explores the beauty and irascibility of the natural world through an approach to painting that is visceral, physical and colorful. Of...
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2010s Contemporary Michael Rich Art

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Paper, Watercolor

Love in spring
By Michael Rich
Located in Fairfield, CT
In paintings, drawings and prints, Michael Rich explores the beauty and irascibility of the natural world through an approach to painting that is visceral, physical and colorful. Of...
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2010s Contemporary Michael Rich Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Olive, fragments
By Michael Rich
Located in Fairfield, CT
In paintings, drawings and prints, Michael Rich explores the beauty and irascibility of the natural world through an approach to painting that is visceral, physical and colorful. Of...
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2010s Contemporary Michael Rich Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Olive, hanging branch
By Michael Rich
Located in Fairfield, CT
In paintings, drawings and prints, Michael Rich explores the beauty and irascibility of the natural world through an approach to painting that is visceral, physical and colorful. Of...
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2010s Contemporary Michael Rich Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

First olive
By Michael Rich
Located in Fairfield, CT
In paintings, drawings and prints, Michael Rich explores the beauty and irascibility of the natural world through an approach to painting that is visceral, physical and colorful. Of...
Category

2010s Contemporary Michael Rich Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Olive, rain approaching
By Michael Rich
Located in Fairfield, CT
In paintings, drawings and prints, Michael Rich explores the beauty and irascibility of the natural world through an approach to painting that is visceral, physical and colorful. Of...
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2010s Contemporary Michael Rich Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Among the olives
By Michael Rich
Located in Fairfield, CT
In paintings, drawings and prints, Michael Rich explores the beauty and irascibility of the natural world through an approach to painting that is visceral, physical and colorful. Of...
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2010s Contemporary Michael Rich Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Aria
By Michael Rich
Located in Fairfield, CT
In paintings, drawings and prints, Michael Rich explores the beauty and irascibility of the natural world through an approach to painting that is visceral, physical and colorful. Of...
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2010s Contemporary Michael Rich Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Raised by wolves
By Michael Rich
Located in Fairfield, CT
In paintings, drawings and prints, Michael Rich explores the beauty and irascibility of the natural world through an approach to painting that is visceral, physical and colorful. Of...
Category

2010s Contemporary Michael Rich Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Tuscania Drawing 32
By Michael Rich
Located in Fairfield, CT
This piece is unframed.
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Early 2000s Abstract Michael Rich Art

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Paper, Mixed Media

Tuscania Drawing 23
By Michael Rich
Located in Fairfield, CT
This piece is unframed.
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Early 2000s Abstract Michael Rich Art

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Paper, Mixed Media

Tuscania Drawing 92
By Michael Rich
Located in Fairfield, CT
This piece is unframed.
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Early 2000s Abstract Michael Rich Art

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Paper, Mixed Media

Tuscania Drawing 67
By Michael Rich
Located in Fairfield, CT
This piece is unframed.
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Early 2000s Abstract Michael Rich Art

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Paper, Mixed Media

Blossoms 2
By Michael Rich
Located in Fairfield, CT
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Contemporary Michael Rich Art

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Mixed Media, Paper

The Whole of Silence
By Michael Rich
Located in Fairfield, CT
b. 1968 Charlottesville, VA The paintings, drawings and prints of Michael Rich reflect an approach to nature and landscape as a wellspring for spiritual investigation and meditation...
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2010s Abstract Michael Rich Art

Materials

Wax, Oil

First Signs of Spring
By Michael Rich
Located in Fairfield, CT
b. 1968 Charlottesville, VA The paintings, drawings and prints of Michael Rich reflect an approach to nature and landscape as a wellspring for spiritual investigation and meditation...
Category

2010s Michael Rich Art

Materials

Wax, Oil

Late Winter Variations XIV
By Michael Rich
Located in Fairfield, CT
"Lately, however, my work has been picking up on the smaller moments in the landscape - not the broad sweeping vistas of the Italian countryside or the New England shore...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Michael Rich Art

Materials

Monoprint

Winter Gone By
By Michael Rich
Located in Fairfield, CT
oil on canvas
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2010s Michael Rich Art

Materials

Canvas, Wax, Oil

Blossoms 5
By Michael Rich
Located in Fairfield, CT
Category

Contemporary Michael Rich Art

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Mixed Media, Paper

Late Winter Variations V
By Michael Rich
Located in Fairfield, CT
Michael Rich’s early years were spent in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains and surrounded by the waters of New England. Graduate studies and later travels to Italy heightened an...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Michael Rich Art

Materials

Monoprint

Late Winter Variations I
By Michael Rich
Located in Fairfield, CT
Michael Rich’s early years were spent in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains and surrounded by the waters of New England. Graduate studies and later travels to Italy heightened an...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Michael Rich Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Big Bird's Nest
By Michael Rich
Located in Fairfield, CT
This piece is unframed.
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2010s Abstract Michael Rich Art

Materials

Woodcut

Between River and Rock
By Michael Rich
Located in Fairfield, CT
Michael Rich’s early years were spent in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains and surrounded by the waters of New England. Graduate studies and later travels to Italy heightened an...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Michael Rich Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Wax

Ambit
By Michael Rich
Located in Fairfield, CT
b. 1968 Charlottesville, VA The paintings, drawings and prints of Michael Rich reflect an approach to nature and landscape as a wellspring for spiritual investigation and meditation...
Category

2010s Abstract Michael Rich Art

Materials

Oil

Blossoms 8
By Michael Rich
Located in Fairfield, CT
Michael Rich’s early years were spent in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains and surrounded by the waters of New England. Graduate studies and later travels to Italy heightened an...
Category

Contemporary Michael Rich Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Paper

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