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DANIEL RICH: Flat Earth

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8 December 2022 - 28 January 2023
  • DANIEL RICH

    FLAT EARTH

     

    8 DECEMBER 2022 - 28 JANUARY 2023

  • MILES MCENERY GALLERY IS PLEASED TO PRESENT DANIEL RICH'S  second SOLO EXHIBITION AT THE GALLERY, FLAT EARTH. THE EXHIBITION OPENS 8 decembeR AT 525 WEST 22ND STREET AND WILL REMAIN ON VIEW THROUGH 28 january 2023. Accompanying the exhibition is A FULLY ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE FEATURING AN ESSAY BY WELLS-FRAY sMITH.

  • New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Daniel Rich: Flat Earth,’ 8 December 2022 - 28 January 2023  Image: Christopher Burke Studio. Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Daniel Rich: Flat Earth,’ 8 December 2022 - 28 January 2023  Image: Christopher Burke Studio. Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Daniel Rich: Flat Earth,’ 8 December 2022 - 28 January 2023  Image: Christopher Burke Studio. Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Daniel Rich: Flat Earth,’ 8 December 2022 - 28 January 2023  Image: Christopher Burke Studio. Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Daniel Rich: Flat Earth,’ 8 December 2022 - 28 January 2023  Image: Christopher Burke Studio. Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Daniel Rich: Flat Earth,’ 8 December 2022 - 28 January 2023  Image: Christopher Burke Studio. Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Daniel Rich: Flat Earth,’ 8 December 2022 - 28 January 2023  Image: Christopher Burke Studio. Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Daniel Rich: Flat Earth,’ 8 December 2022 - 28 January 2023  Image: Christopher Burke Studio. Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Daniel Rich: Flat Earth,’ 8 December 2022 - 28 January 2023  Image: Christopher Burke Studio. Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Daniel Rich: Flat Earth,’ 8 December 2022 - 28 January 2023  Image: Christopher Burke Studio. Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Daniel Rich: Flat Earth,’ 8 December 2022 - 28 January 2023
    Image: Christopher Burke Studio. Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY 
  • DANIEL RICH 200 Park Ave, 2022 Acrylic on dibond 80 x 50 inches 203.2 x 127 cm

    DANIEL RICH

    200 Park Ave, 2022

    Acrylic on dibond

    80 x 50  inches

    203.2 x 127 cm

  • "This new body of work consists of twelve paintings in highly saturated colors that meticulously show, from the viewpoint of the street, oblique angles of modernist buildings in midtown Manhattan. Titled after a specific address, each painting seems convincingly real, as a sense of perspective draws the eye into space, as though we are seeing a representation of the semi-abstract exterior structure of, for example, 531 Madison Avenue or 29 East 46th Street as it appears in life. The paintings are heavily cropped—we never see a full view from bottom to top, but instead are presented with a sharp corner, as in 29 East 46th Street; a section of skyscraper with edge-to-edge material, as in 789- 813 10th Avenue; or a series of repeated window panes that recess into the distance, as in 780 3rd Avenue."

    - Wells Fray-Smith in "A Matter of Perspective"

  • DANIEL RICH 29 East 46th St, 2022 Acrylic and charcoal on canvas 80 x 50 inches 203.2 x 127 cm

    DANIEL RICH

    29 East 46th St, 2022

    Acrylic and charcoal on canvas

    80  x 50 inches

    203.2 x 127 cm

  • DANIEL RICH 531 Madison Ave, 2022 Acrylic on dibond 80 x 50 inches 203.2 x 127 cm

    DANIEL RICH

    531 Madison Ave,  2022

    Acrylic on dibond

    80 x 50 inches

    203.2  x 127 cm

  • "Over the past two decades, Rich has investigated the ways in which architecture might suggest underlying political narratives, turning his attention to the ways in which buildings are significant not for their design, but because of how they have been used and the events that have taken place within or in front of them. Previous work referenced specific historical, political and socially significant events based on appropriated imagery of architecture sourced online and from social media. The Flat Earth works mark a new departure for Rich. They share with previous work an insistence on line, color, structure, and the organization and creation of both flat and three-dimensional space, but they are original in his oeuvre, as they are, in his words, “sci-fi vision[s] of pictorial architecture."

    - Wells Fray-Smith  in "A Matter of Perspective"
  • Daniel Rich's Studio, 2020, Berlin, Germany
    Daniel Rich's Studio, 2020, Berlin, Germany
  • DANIEL RICH 601 Lexington Ave, 2022 Acrylic on dibond 80 x 50 inches 203.2 x 127 cm

    DANIEL RICH

    601 Lexington Ave, 2022

    Acrylic on dibond

    80 x 50 inches

    203.2 x 127 cm

  • DANIEL RICH 780 3rd Ave, 2022 Acrylic on dibond 60 x 40 inches 152.4 x 101.6 cm

    DANIEL RICH

    780 3rd Ave, 2022

    Acrylic on dibond

    60 x 40 inches

    152.4  x 101.6 cm

  •  "Take 780 3rd Avenue, for example, an M.C. Escher-like image of a series of window perforations in the facade that seemingly repeat ad-infinitum beyond the edges of the canvas. Here, the illusion of space is suggested by perspectival lines that draw the eye diagonally from the bottom left corner of the canvas to the top right. Yet, on closer inspection, all is not as it seems, and the “real” becomes harder to grasp as color and distortion work their magic."

    - Wells Fray-Smith in "A Matter of Perspective"

  • DANIEL RICH 789-813 10th Avenue, 2022 Acrylic on dibond 60 x 40 inches 152.4 x 101.6 cm

    DANIEL RICH

    789-813 10th Avenue, 2022

    Acrylic on dibond

    60 x 40 inches

    152.4 x 101.6 cm

  • DANIEL RICH 945 Madison Ave, Interior, 2022 40 x 30 inches 101.6 x 76.2 cm

    DANIEL RICH

    945 Madison Ave, Interior, 2022

    40 x 30 inches

    101.6 x 76.2 cm

     

  • DANIEL RICH 909 3rd Ave, Interior, 2022 Acrylic on dibond 40 x 30 inches 101.6 x 76.2 cm

    DANIEL RICH

    909 3rd Ave, Interior, 2022

    Acrylic on dibond

    40 x 30 inches

    101.6 x 76.2  cm

  • 'In preparing to make these works, Rich turned to other painters he admired, among them Mark Bradford and Julie Mehretu,...

    Julie Mehretu

     Transcending: The New International, 2003

    Ink and acrylic on canvas

    107 x 237 inches

    271.78 x  601.98 cm

    Collection Walker Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN

    "In preparing to make these works, Rich turned to other painters he admired, among them Mark Bradford and Julie Mehretu, who also masterfully wield abstraction to create political images. But so often this political tendency in abstraction rests on  imagery or supporting text to illuminate what these paintings are about—as though a documentary photograph or specific historical moment might unlock the narrative of the work. The unique beauty of Daniel Rich’s work is that it doesn’t need it—you can take the paintings at surface value for what they are—images suggesting surveillance, protest, and that something may be at a turning point; and painted surfaces that disorient and make the familiar strange."

    - Wells Fray-Smith in "A Matter of Perspective"

  • DANIEL RICH Color Study #17, 2022 Acrylic on dibond 60 x 40 inches 152.4 x 101.6 cm

    DANIEL RICH

    Color Study #17, 2022

    Acrylic on dibond 

    60 x 40 inches

    152.4 x 101.6 cm

  • DANIEL RICH MSB, Philadelphia, 2022 Acrylic on dibond 48 x 36 inches 121.9 x 91.4 cm

    DANIEL RICH

    MSB, Philadelphia, 2022

    Acrylic on dibond 

    48 x 36 inches

    121.9 x 91.4 cm

  • 'The challenge is to go to that emotional place—to see the architecture from a position of indignation and vulnerability, of...

    DANIEL RICH

    Zeitenwende #1, 2022

    Acrylic on dibond

    40 x 30  inches

    101.6 x 76.2  cm

    "The challenge is to go to that emotional place—to see the architecture from a position of indignation and vulnerability, of powerlessness and power, of rage and hope. Rich invokes the potential productivity of these emotions in Zeitenwende—both the title of paintings in the exhibition, and a concept that he says governs the conceptual underpinning of this exhibition.Meaning 'turning point' or 'watershed moment' in German, the phrase suggests a potential for a pivot, the hope that something can—and will—change."

    - Gary Brewer in "A Matter of Perspective"

     

  • DANIEL RICH Zeitenwende #2, 2022 Acrylic on dibond 40 x 30 inches 101.6 x 76.2 cm

    DANIEL RICH

    Zeitenwende #2, 2022

    Acrylic on dibond

    40 x 30  inches

    101.6 x 76.2 cm

  • "This tension between real and artifice, two seemingly conflicting ideas, is at the heart of Rich’s work. His paintings are at once illusions of real places and abstract surfaces, flat and three-dimensional, strange and familiar. This is their subtle, political power as paintings, as 'matter' on canvas: The images put the viewer in the position of protestor at the same time that pictorial devices of saturated color and distortion get us to question what is real and what is fake—essentially, thrusting us into a condition of unknowing that is so indicative of our current political moment, in which information and misinformation are widely spread."

    - Wells-Fray Smith in "A Matter of Perspective"

  • DANIEL RICH Zeitenwende #3 / 909 3rd Ave, 2022 Acrylic on dibond 83 x 60 inches 210.8 x 152.4 cm

    DANIEL RICH

    Zeitenwende #3 / 909 3rd Ave, 2022

    Acrylic on dibond

    83 x 60 inches

    210.8  x 152.4 cm

  • DANIEL RICH Zeitenwende #4, 2022 Acrylic on dibond 80 x 50 inches 203.2 x 127 cm

    DANIEL RICH

    Zeitenwende #4, 2022

    Acrylic on dibond

    80  x 50 inches

    203.2 x 127 cm

  • "There is a double gaze at play. Just as there is a sense that the buildings see the events on the street below, so too are we looking up at the buildings. As viewers, we are asked to occupy the position of a protestor, someone on the street who is showing up for a cause we believe in—a cause worthy of our bodies, worthy of us taking up space and showing others 'I am here.'”

     

    - Wells Fray-Smith in "A Matter of Perspective"

  • DANIEL RICH (b. 1977, Ulm, Germany) received his Master of Fine Arts from Tufts University and the School of the...

    Daniel Rich in his studio, 2020, Berlin, Germany

    DANIEL RICH  (b. 1977, Ulm, Germany) received his Master of Fine Arts from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Atlanta College of Art; and has completed a residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

     

    Recent solo exhibitions include “(co)vertex,” Studio Trouble, Berlin, Germany; “Back to the Future,” Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; “Never Forever,” Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY; “Systematic Anarchy,” Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY; “Platforms of Power,” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; “Berlin: Daniel Rich and Wieland Speck,” Horton Gallery, New York, NY; “1989-2009: Paintings of the Berlin Airports 20 Years after the Fall of the Wall,” Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, IL; “Downburst,” Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY; and “Black Sunday,” SUNDAY, New York, NY.

     

    Recent group exhibitions include“Otherworldly,” Mucciaccia Gallery,London,United Kingdom;“StudioVisit,” Collezione Maramotti,Reggio Emilia, Italy;Weber Fine Art, Greenwich, CT;“Beyond the Streets on Paper,” Southampton Arts Center, Southampton, NY;“Endless State,” The Skowhegan Alliance, New York, NY; “Mensch in Moll,” Inter Port, Berlin, Germany; “Geometric Heat,” GR Gallery, New York, NY; “Invisibli,” Anna Marra Contemporanea, Rome, Italy; “Set for the Sun” (curated by Jenne Grabowski), Lobe Block, Berlin, Germany; “#” (curated by Markus Linnenbrink),Cindy Rucker Gallery,NewYork,NY;“In My Room:Artists Paint the Interior 1950-Now,” Fralin Museum of Art,The University of Virginia, Charlottesville,VA; and “After the Fall,” Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY.

     

    His work may be found in the collections of the Cornell Musuem at Rollins University,Winter Park, FL; Fidelity Art Collection, Boston, MA; Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY; Maramotti Collection, Reggio Emilia, Italy; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; and Wellington Management, Boston, MA.

     

    The artist lives and works in Blowing Rock, NC.

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    • Daniel Rich 200 Park Avenue, 2022 Acrylic on dibond 80 x 50 inches 203.2 x 127 cm
      Daniel Rich
      200 Park Avenue, 2022
      Acrylic on dibond
      80 x 50 inches
      203.2 x 127 cm
    • Daniel Rich 29 East 46th St, 2022 Acrylic on dibond 80 x 50 inches 203.2 x 127 cm
      Daniel Rich
      29 East 46th St, 2022
      Acrylic on dibond
      80 x 50 inches
      203.2 x 127 cm
    • Daniel Rich 531 Madison Ave, 2022 Acrylic on Dibond 80 x 50 inches 203.2 x 127 cm
      Daniel Rich
      531 Madison Ave, 2022
      Acrylic on Dibond
      80 x 50 inches
      203.2 x 127 cm
    • Daniel Rich 601 Lexington Ave, 2022 Acrylic on dibond 80 x 50 inches 203.2 x 127 cm
      Daniel Rich
      601 Lexington Ave, 2022
      Acrylic on dibond
      80 x 50 inches
      203.2 x 127 cm
    • Daniel Rich 780 3rd Ave, 2022 Acrylic on dibond 60 x 40 inches 152.4 x 101.6 cm
      Daniel Rich
      780 3rd Ave, 2022
      Acrylic on dibond
      60 x 40 inches
      152.4 x 101.6 cm
    • Daniel Rich 789-813 10th Avenue, 2022 Acrylic on dibond 60 x 40 inches 152.4 x 101.6 cm
      Daniel Rich
      789-813 10th Avenue, 2022
      Acrylic on dibond
      60 x 40 inches
      152.4 x 101.6 cm
    • Daniel Rich 909 3rd Ave, Interior , 2022 Acrylic on dibond 40 x 30 inches 101.6 x 76.2 cm
      Daniel Rich
      909 3rd Ave, Interior , 2022
      Acrylic on dibond
      40 x 30 inches
      101.6 x 76.2 cm
    • Daniel Rich 945 Madison Ave, Interior, 2022 Acrylic on dibond 40 x 30 inches 101.6 x 76.2 cm
      Daniel Rich
      945 Madison Ave, Interior, 2022
      Acrylic on dibond
      40 x 30 inches
      101.6 x 76.2 cm
    • Daniel Rich Color Study #17, 2022 Acrylic on dibond 60 x 40 inches 152.4 x 101.6 cm
      Daniel Rich
      Color Study #17, 2022
      Acrylic on dibond
      60 x 40 inches
      152.4 x 101.6 cm
    • Daniel Rich MSB, Philadelphia, 2022 Acrylic on dibond 48 x 36 inches 121.9 x 91.4 cm
      Daniel Rich
      MSB, Philadelphia, 2022
      Acrylic on dibond
      48 x 36 inches
      121.9 x 91.4 cm
    • Daniel Rich Zeitenwende #1, 2022 Acrylic on dibond 40 x 30 inches 101.6 x 76.2 cm
      Daniel Rich
      Zeitenwende #1, 2022
      Acrylic on dibond
      40 x 30 inches
      101.6 x 76.2 cm
    • Daniel Rich Zeitenwende #2, 2022 Acrylic on dibond 40 x 30 inches 101.6 x 76.2 cm
      Daniel Rich
      Zeitenwende #2, 2022
      Acrylic on dibond
      40 x 30 inches
      101.6 x 76.2 cm
    • Daniel Rich Zeitenwende #3 / 909 3rd Ave, 2022 Acrylic on Dibond 83 x 60 inches 210.8 x 152.4 cm
      Daniel Rich
      Zeitenwende #3 / 909 3rd Ave, 2022
      Acrylic on Dibond
      83 x 60 inches
      210.8 x 152.4 cm
    • Daniel Rich Zeitenwende #4, 2022 Acrylic on dibond 80 x 50 inches 203.2 x 127 cm
      Daniel Rich
      Zeitenwende #4, 2022
      Acrylic on dibond
      80 x 50 inches
      203.2 x 127 cm
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