Jeremy Shockley, Untitled, 2025

We are pleased to announce DANIEL RICH's timed release in support of the RAPID RESPONSE FUND

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Daniel Rich (b. 1977, Ulm, Germany) is a painter known for his meticulous translations of photographs into architectural paintings that explore the political and social dimensions embedded in the built environment. Through bold, highly controlled compositions, Rich investigates how structures—often monumental, institutional, or ideologically charged—become symbols of power, conflict, and cultural identity.

Working from sourced and self-taken photographs, Rich focuses on architecture as a form of political portraiture—capturing shifting ideologies, failed utopias, and the aftermath of war and upheaval. His paintings dissect how mediated images are framed and consumed, and how place and imagery can both reflect and obscure meaning. These works serve as visual documents of historical moments and societal conditions, inviting viewers to reconsider the role of architecture in shaping collective memory.

Rooted in a background in printmaking, Rich’s process is painstaking and layered. Each painting begins with digital manipulation of an image in Photoshop, which is then scaled, traced, and transferred to aluminum composite panels covered with translucent vinyl. Using precision knives, custom-mixed Golden acrylics, and squeegees, he builds each work through a labor-intensive method of cutting, masking, and stenciling—achieving crisp, flat surfaces that belie the complex conceptual underpinnings of his subject matter.

Rich holds an MFA from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and a BFA from the Atlanta College of Art. He is an alumnus of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

He has exhibited widely in solo exhibitions at Miles McEnery Gallery (New York), StudioTrouble (Berlin), Peter Blum Gallery (New York), Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and more. His work has also appeared in group shows at institutions including Collezione Maramotti (Italy), The Fralin Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia and Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt/ Main.

His paintings are held in numerous public and private collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Collezione Maramotti, Hudson Valley MOCA, and the Fidelity Art Collection.

Daniel Rich lives and works in Blowing Rock, North Carolina and Berlin, Germany.

Check out his current solo show Passages at Bernhard Knaus Fine Art.
13.06. - 30.08.2025

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Support by getting yourself a beautiful archival pigment print by Daniel Rich:

Available for 48 hours from July 8 - July 10 6pm LONDON/7pm BERLIN/1pm NYC

Please help us with this important cause. Thank you very much!