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The Gulch | Mixed Media in Paintings by Rich Godfrey. Item composed of wood & canvas compatible with minimalism and mid century modern style
The Gulch | Mixed Media in Paintings by Rich Godfrey. Item composed of wood & canvas compatible with minimalism and mid century modern style
The Gulch | Mixed Media in Paintings by Rich Godfrey. Item composed of wood & canvas compatible with minimalism and mid century modern style
The Gulch | Mixed Media in Paintings by Rich Godfrey. Item composed of wood & canvas compatible with minimalism and mid century modern style
The Gulch | Mixed Media in Paintings by Rich Godfrey. Item composed of wood & canvas compatible with minimalism and mid century modern style
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The Gulch | Mixed Media in Paintings by Rich Godfrey. Item composed of wood & canvas compatible with minimalism and mid century modern style

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The Gulch - Paintings

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24H x 24W x 1.5D in
60.96H x 60.96W x 3.81D cm
1.36 kg
3 lb
The final piece in the Terminus series, this painting looks down into the Gulch — the sunken rail corridor beneath downtown Atlanta that gives the district its name, and the very site where the city was first founded as a railroad terminus in 1837. A weathered rust-red, teal, and cream cluster of warehouse buildings rises behind an active freight train, its ochre boxcar and black locomotive cutting a hard diagonal across the composition. Framed above and below by a quilted patchwork of muted color blocks — echoing the Cradled Wrap Series' visual language — the piece closes the Terminus cycle by showing the one thing that's never stopped since 1837: the railroad still running through the ground the city was built on.

This piece is Cradle Wrapped, built on a deliberately deep stretcher frame, allowing the composition to continue fully around the edges rather than stop at the front plane. The result is a painting that reads as a dimensional object rather than a flat image — color, texture, and form carrying around every side, so the piece holds its presence from any angle it's viewed.

Category: mixed media

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Item The Gulch
Created by Rich Godfrey
As seen in Private Residence, Atlanta, GA
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Rich Godfrey
Meet the Creator
Wescover creator since 2026
Geometry, color, and the structures that hold them together.

Rich has been a graphic designer in Atlanta and New York for over 40 years. He is best known for designing the presentation for Atlanta's successful Olympic and Super Bowl bids while working for Copeland Design in Atlanta. He owned an award-winning design firm, FUSE, whose client list included IBM, The Coca-Cola Company, Delta Air Lines, UPS, Emory University, and Emory Healthcare, to name a few.

His unique style of design placed him among 39 other designers in the book Radical Graphics, Graphic Radicals, whose members have influenced design and ad campaigns around the globe.

Rich returned his focus to painting in 2021 and has enjoyed many fast successes, including being voted a finalist for the 2025 Balentine Prize at the Atlanta Art Fair, a solo show at Atlanta Tech Village's Sylvan Gallery, and paintings sold both nationally and internationally.

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