DANIEL RICH | 8 FEBRUARY - 23 MARCH 2024

"Until recently, the artwork of Daniel Rich—paintings of tantalizing calculation and hue, monumental in content if rarely in size—concerned itself with exteriors… His new work, though, looks for shelter. The newer canvases keep ducking into lobbies, as if to shake off the rain or an unknown (or all-too-known) surveillant. The trouble is there’s no safety inside."

- Jesse Dorris in "Wherever It Is That We Are"

"To make a painting, Rich takes a photograph. The locations of the photographs are destinations with identifying details cropped or otherwise kept from the frame, only to be reintroduced via final titles. Natural light is made supernatural with Photoshop. Rich covers an aluminum panel with translucent vinyl stickers and traces the photograph onto it. He then redraws, for accuracy. Architecture arrives with a knife; he cuts sections from the vinyl and fills them with paint—one by one, brick by brick. The colors in his cityscapes number in the hundreds."

- Jesse Dorris in "Wherever It Is That We Are"

Daniel Rich (b. 1977 in Ulm, Germany) received his Master of Fine Arts in 2004 from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2001 from the Atlanta College of Art and has completed a residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

Rich has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; StudioTrouble, Berlin, Germany; Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY; the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA; Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, MA; and Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, IL.

His work has been included in institutional group exhibitions at Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy; The Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA; The Skowhegan Alliance, New York, NY; Southampton Arts Center, Southampton, NY; Tallahassee Museum of Fine Art, Tallahassee, FL; Tufts University, Medford, MA, and elsewhere.

Rich’s work may be found in the collections of the Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy; Fidelity Art Collection, Boston, MA; Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY; Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA; Rollins Museum of Art,Winter Park, FL; and Wellington Management, Boston, MA.

The artist lives and works in Blowing Rock, NC and Berlin, Germany.

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