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DANIEL RICH
FLAT EARTH
8 DECEMBER 2022 - 28 JANUARY 2023
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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.
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DANIEL RICH
200 Park Ave, 2022
Acrylic on dibond
80 x 50 inches
203.2 x 127 cm
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"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"
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DANIEL RICH
29 East 46th St, 2022
Acrylic and charcoal on canvas
80 x 50 inches
203.2 x 127 cm
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DANIEL RICH
531 Madison Ave, 2022
Acrylic on dibond
80 x 50 inches
203.2 x 127 cm
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"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."
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Daniel Rich's Studio, 2020, Berlin, Germany
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DANIEL RICH
601 Lexington Ave, 2022
Acrylic on dibond
80 x 50 inches
203.2 x 127 cm
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DANIEL RICH
780 3rd Ave, 2022
Acrylic on dibond
60 x 40 inches
152.4 x 101.6 cm
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"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"
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DANIEL RICH
789-813 10th Avenue, 2022
Acrylic on dibond
60 x 40 inches
152.4 x 101.6 cm
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DANIEL RICH
945 Madison Ave, Interior, 2022
40 x 30 inches
101.6 x 76.2 cm
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DANIEL RICH
909 3rd Ave, Interior, 2022
Acrylic on dibond
40 x 30 inches
101.6 x 76.2 cm
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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
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DANIEL RICH
Color Study #17, 2022
Acrylic on dibond
60 x 40 inches
152.4 x 101.6 cm
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DANIEL RICH
MSB, Philadelphia, 2022
Acrylic on dibond
48 x 36 inches
121.9 x 91.4 cm
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DANIEL RICH
Zeitenwende #1, 2022
Acrylic on dibond
40 x 30 inches
101.6 x 76.2 cm
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DANIEL RICH
Zeitenwende #2, 2022
Acrylic on dibond
40 x 30 inches
101.6 x 76.2 cm
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"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"
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DANIEL RICH
Zeitenwende #3 / 909 3rd Ave, 2022
Acrylic on dibond
83 x 60 inches
210.8 x 152.4 cm
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DANIEL RICH
Zeitenwende #4, 2022
Acrylic on dibond
80 x 50 inches
203.2 x 127 cm
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"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"
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Daniel Rich in his studio, 2020, Berlin, Germany
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Daniel Rich200 Park Avenue, 2022Acrylic on dibond80 x 50 inches
203.2 x 127 cm -
Daniel Rich29 East 46th St, 2022Acrylic on dibond80 x 50 inches
203.2 x 127 cm -
Daniel Rich531 Madison Ave, 2022Acrylic on Dibond80 x 50 inches
203.2 x 127 cm -
Daniel Rich601 Lexington Ave, 2022Acrylic on dibond80 x 50 inches
203.2 x 127 cm
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Daniel Rich780 3rd Ave, 2022Acrylic on dibond60 x 40 inches
152.4 x 101.6 cm -
Daniel Rich789-813 10th Avenue, 2022Acrylic on dibond60 x 40 inches
152.4 x 101.6 cm -
Daniel Rich909 3rd Ave, Interior , 2022Acrylic on dibond40 x 30 inches
101.6 x 76.2 cm -
Daniel Rich945 Madison Ave, Interior, 2022Acrylic on dibond40 x 30 inches
101.6 x 76.2 cm
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Daniel RichColor Study #17, 2022Acrylic on dibond60 x 40 inches
152.4 x 101.6 cm -
Daniel RichMSB, Philadelphia, 2022Acrylic on dibond48 x 36 inches
121.9 x 91.4 cm -
Daniel RichZeitenwende #1, 2022Acrylic on dibond40 x 30 inches
101.6 x 76.2 cm -
Daniel RichZeitenwende #2, 2022Acrylic on dibond40 x 30 inches
101.6 x 76.2 cm
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