Rich Smukler has blended his life-long passion for art and photography. His works have been featured in numerous museums, galleries and private collections internationally. While his cutting edge passion for graphic design has earned him accolades and awards for innovative style, his genre as a fine art photographer encompasses photo-realism to abstract graphic design. A love of Tuscany has taken him back to bella Italia on many occasions, camera in tow, in search of yet another perfect moment. He has drawn inspiration from such greats as Miro, Kandinsky, Pollock, Joan Mitchell, Arno Minkkinen, Sandro Santioli & Cartier Bresson.Selected Museums and Venues:
(SDAI) San Diego Art Institute / (MOLA) Museum of the Living Artist (San Diego, California), (CIDPA) Canadian International Digital Photography Competition 2011 (Montreal, QC, Canada), Boca Raton Museum of Art (Boca Raton, Florida), Monmouth Museum of Art (Lincroft, New Jersey), Andrews Museum of Art (Andrews, North Carolina), (MOCA) Museum of Computer Art (Brooklyn, New York), The Southern Museum of Flight (Birmingham, Alabama), The National Wall Art Gallery (Tampa, Florida), Museum of the Gulf Coast (Port Arthur, Texas), (MODA) Museum of Digital Arts (On-line), (DFAM) Digital Fine Arts Museum (On-line), (UICA) Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts (Grand Rapids, Michigan), The Palm Beach Photographic Center (West Palm Beach, Florida), (LACDA) Los Angeles Center for Digital Arts, The Louisville Colorado Center for the Arts, The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts (West Palm Beach, Florida), Digital Long Island (St. James, New York), The Elliott Museum (Stuart, Florda), The Elmhurst Art Museum, (Elmhurst, Illinois), Sugar Sands Art Center, (Boca Raton, Florida).
Selected Galleries and Exhibitions:
Sandro Santioli Photo Atelier (Florence, Italy), Karen Lynne Gallery (Boca Raton, Florida), Artists' Haven Fine Art Gallery (Fort Lauderdale, Florida), Steven F. Greenwald Design (Fort Lauderdale, Florida), Arch Linear at DCOTA (Dania, Florida), The George Segal Gallery (Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey), The Eissey Gallery (Palm Beach Community College), Valdosta State University Fine Art Gallery (Valdosta, Georgia), Adriana Hoyos (Dania & Miami, Florida and Mexico), The Pleiades Gallery of Contemporary Art (New York City), Gallery 51 (Boca Raton, Florida), American Juried Art Salon: Fine Arts Show 2011 (On-line), PPM Collections (Dania Beach, Florida)
Selected Publications
Best of America Photography Part II (Kennedy Publishing; 2011), Photographer's Forum Magazine / Best of Photography 2011 (Serbin Communications: 2011), Rich Smukler Photographic Expressionism (Blurb Publications: 2010).
