Artist Statement
Michael Rich
Rhode Island artist, Michael Rich has exhibited at Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery for the past seven years. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and Savannah College of Art & Design, his work continues to fascinate and intrigue. An abstract artist, Rich has always been interested in painting land and sea. A practitioner of yoga, his work invites us to join him in meditations on color and form.
“My paintings and drawings of the past decade have explored through the language of abstraction the notion of place. Places once visited, invented or discovered, vaguely take shape in the colors of space and light.
The gray skies of Providence, the expanses of sky and sea surrounding Nantucket Island, the warm of New England Fall, are subjects now mined in my work. In an effort to understand my own place among these fleeting images, I seek a language that draws on personal history as well as the history of painting while forging a new path between abstraction and the realization of the image of place.”
Michael Rich is exhibited in galleries across the country. His work is contained in museum, corporate and private collections