Monica Lee Rich

Monica is a contemporary American painter.
b.Vicenza, Italy ‘64.


New: See more about me and the new art studio and home build at 3 Gables Studios

“Primarily, my work is about passion and intimacy. I choose to forego the more traditional method of conveying this through the figure and express it through line, marks, and an abstracted view of the natural world.

My work explores passion and intimacy, and I use abstract botanicals to express the age-old, timeless mysteries of romance, spirituality, and human nature. I am inspired by the high drama of Baroque art, following the trail of Renaissance art but applying the softer drama of the Impressionists in color, brushstroke, and light.

Within my creative process, whether the medium is oil, acrylic, or watercolor, the natural world takes on feminine and masculine personas as I forge a new painting language that merges the spiritual and the physical. My goal is to capture a thin space, the space in between spaces, where there is a wonder that plays out as a progression, a movement, into a type of courtship, almost a dance that will lure the viewer in and invite them to exist in this same beautiful, enigmatic space.”

Monica curates and writes about the creative process at THE SM...

B.S. in Graphic Art

2023 Student Teacher exhibit Providence Art Club

2023 Artist/Teacher Abstract Art at Providence Art Club
2022 Workshop teacher at Nantucket Artists Association
2022 National Juried Art Show Providence Art Club
2022 The Other Art Fair exhibition Brooklyn, NY
2021 Release Whispers of Orquevaux Collection
2021 Artist in Residence at Chateaux Orquevaux in France
2020 Release Exhale Collection
2020 Release Blooming Disco Collection
2019 Pawtucket Arts Foundation Show
2019 Winter Mission Show, Newport Rhode Island
2018 Online Finalist Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series
2018 Candita Clayton Gallery Group Show
2018 European Cultural Academy certificate program/Venice Biennale
2017 Candita Clayton Gallery Emerging Artist Sow
2017 Attleboro Arts Museum Jewels of the Garden
2017 Pawtucket Arts Foundation Show