b. 1968 Charlottesville, VA
Artist and professor Michael Rich approaches painting as a means of exploring nature and the landscape through the language of contemporary abstraction. Travels and study in Italy and a life spent around the waters of New England have helped to shape a love and interest in the natural rhythms of color that remain a focal point in his work today. Michael comes to the process of painting “free of preconceptions” and aims to discover poetic spaces of memory through painting that is visceral, physical and colorful.
Michael Blaché Rich
“For Rich sensitivity to paint is inseparable from sensitivity to landscape, and the fluid density of landscape is best conveyed by the fluid density of paint. ”
— Donald Kuspit, Critic
