Michael Rich

Michael Rich

Pawtucket , RI, United States

About Michael Rich

My paintings, drawings and prints explore through the language of abstraction the notion of place. The gray skies of Providence, the sea surrounding Nantucket Island, the warmth of a New England Fall, are all subjects mined in my work. I seek a personal visual language between abstraction and the realization of the image of place. While light, weather and atmosphere act as the impetus in my work, the painting themselves lie in the places between memory and new moments of discovery. Early influences in painting such as JMW Turner and experiments in landscape painting eventually led to a language of abstraction related more to the abstract expressionists, Joan Mitchell or Helen Frakenthaler. I am currently a Professor of Art and Chair of Visual Arts at Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI. I am represented in the US by ARC Fine Art, CT; Adler & Co., San Francisco; Old Spouter Gallery, Nantucket among others. My work has been featured in the International Young Art auction series at Sotheby's and is in numerous public and private collections worldwide.

Education:

BFA, Rhode Island School of Design
MFA Painting, Savannah College of Art and Design

Events:

Art Palm Beach, Steidel Fine Art, Jan 17-20, 2019

Recent:
- The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn, Nov 8-11, 2018
- Blue: New Paintings, Drawings and Prints, Providence Art Club, Sept 23 - Oct 12, 2018
- Old Spouter Gallery, Nantucket, MA, July 2018

Exhibitions:

solo museum exhibitions:
2014 Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI
2008 Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
2007 Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville, AR

selected solo exhibitions:
2018 Blue - Providence Art Club
2017 A Life in Color • Old Spouter Gallery, Nantucket, MA
A Painter Makes Prints • Providence Art Club

2016
All the Dawns of Summer • Old Spouter Gallery, New and Large Paintings • Atrium Gallery, One Financial Plaza, Providence RI

2015
Large Scale • Candita Clayton Gallery, Pawtucket RI
One not Like the Other, New Monoprints • Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI
To Paint a Flower • Old Spouter Gallery

2014
Old Spouter Gallery, Nantucket, MA
The Artists Association of Nantucket

2012
Chace-Randall Gallery, Andes, NY

2010
Old Spouter Gallery
Patricia Carega Gallery, Center Sandwich, NH
ARC Fine Art, Fairfield, CT

2008
Old Spouter Gallery
George Billis Gallery, New York, NY

2007
Adler & Co. Gallery, San Francisco, CA

selected group exhibitions:
2015 Providence Art Club
2013 Galeria de Marchi, Bologna, Italy
2013 Birnam Wood Gallery, New York, NY
2012 Chace-Randall Gallery, Andes, NY
2011 Chianciano Biennale, Chianciano Art Museum, Italy
2010 Adler & Co. at the LA Art Show
2009 Trevisan Art International, Ferrara, Italy
2009 Adler & Co, San Francisco
2009 Adler & Co. at the LA Art Show
2008 Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery, Center Sandwich, NH

public collections:
The Bronx Museum of the Arts
The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH