Matthew Rich's work is made piecemeal taping together separate painted paper shapes and growing his piece gradually in size and complexity. In this body of work, Rich explores painting as a method of building a surface based compositional structure without traditional brushwork and without a unifying backing structure. Mathew Rich lives and works in Boston and is represented by samsøn. He has exhibited at devening projects and editions in Chicago, IL and Project Row Houses in Houston, TX.