Michael Rich Mixed Media
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.
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Artist: Michael Rich
Tuscania Drawing 23
By Michael Rich
Located in Fairfield, CT
This piece is unframed.
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Early 2000s Abstract Michael Rich Mixed Media
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Paper, Mixed Media
Blossoms 2
By Michael Rich
Located in Fairfield, CT
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Contemporary Michael Rich Mixed Media
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Mixed Media, Paper
Tuscania Drawing 32
By Michael Rich
Located in Fairfield, CT
This piece is unframed.
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Early 2000s Abstract Michael Rich Mixed Media
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Paper, Mixed Media
Blossoms 5
By Michael Rich
Located in Fairfield, CT
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Contemporary Michael Rich Mixed Media
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Mixed Media, Paper
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...
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Contemporary Michael Rich Mixed Media
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Mixed Media, Paper
Tuscania Drawing 92
By Michael Rich
Located in Fairfield, CT
This piece is unframed.
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Michael Rich Mixed Media
Materials
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 Mixed Media
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Paper, Mixed Media
Arrangement
By Michael Rich
Located in Fairfield, CT
Mixed media on paper. This piece is unframed.
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2010s Michael Rich Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
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