Michael Rich's abstract style builds upon his experiences growing up on the New England coast, as well as later memories from Italy. His melding of abstraction and the world around us has caught the eye - and the praise - of many reviewers.

Robert Mahoney writes that Michael's work "seeks to capture both the special quality of a place, but also the intangible richness of repeated, life-long experience of a place in time."

Donald Kuspit praises the "mystic import" and "sense of radical aliveness" of Rich's art, which is most definitely evident in this original oil, Untitled 09-16 created in Michael's Pawtucket, RI studio.