Daniel Rich in his studio, Berlin, Germany, 2020.
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 ContemporaryArt 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 Fidelity Art Collection, Boston, MA; Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY; Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy; Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA; Rollins Museum ofArt,Winter Park,FL; and Wellington Management, Boston, MA.
The artist lives and works in Blowing Rock, NC and Berlin, Germany.
Evan Pricco reviews Daniel Rich's Flat Earth in Juxtapoz Magazine.
Back to the Future: The Building as Artifact in Daniel Rich's Newest Work
"During this time when office buildings and stadiums, places constructed and designed beholden to capitalism or sport, fall victim to 2020’s Rich’s most recent body of work may be his most sublime and urgent to date."
I am interested in intersections between technology and architecture, and the impact of communications media on society, culture, and historical events. I explore these intersections through contexts such as WikiLeaks, Edward Snowden, instances of hacking, digital warfare, software glitches at Nasdaq, the role of social media in recent revolutions and wars in the Middle East, and the fragility of the systems on which we depend.
NEW YORK – MILES MCENERY GALLERY is pleased to announce its representation of Daniel Rich.
Painting man made edifices and urban landscapes, Daniel Rich uses geometric patterns and vibrant color to invest the picture with a bigger capital of invisibly political intentions. With a background in graffiti art, skateboarding and influenced by his growing up in Germany, Rich shares his unique perspective of the built environment and invites viewers to question their own. Rich paints from photographs, tracing and scoring each line with a blade before painting in the shapes. The effect is an overwhelming precision of line and perspective that appears at once tactile and flat.
