Artist

Rich Black

American, b. 1974

Rich Black is an American artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Museum of Modern Art.

Rich Black was that quiet printmaker who always worked in the same small studio above a laundromat, the hum of the dryers his soundtrack. He spent years perfecting a single shade of ink, so dense it swallowed light, and used it to make prints that looked like paper-thin voids. You’ll find one of those searing blacks in Untitled (2012), a single sheet from a portfolio of thirty-one screenprints that all share the same quiet menace.

Works by Rich Black

Collections represented

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