ABOUT THE WORK
My paintings are children of the New York School. They strive to build on that heritage, while remaining within the tradition of Modernism.
In the studio I work principally on the margins of what I already know about painting and paint, searching for what I don't know. Abstract and nonrepresentational painting, unfettered with distracting images, may allow the paint to release its transformative potential. It may become a carrier of emotion and small joys. It may even evoke the unique, aesthetic, poetic or meditative capacities of viewers. One can hope, anyway.
In the studio, in the murk of the discovery process, not knowing how to let paint on canvas achieve those things,
. . . well, that's the excitement.
Harry A. Rich
Sandgate, Vermont
September 2008
Studio View
All images © Harry A. Rich