Art is a universal form of communication.   My process of working is contemplative in nature.  Although the work I produce might appear to be simple or fresh at first glance, I spend much of my time figuring out how to make it appear this way.  An expressive line drawn by a brush has a quality of spontaneity about it but in fact Iit takes deep understanding of my intentions to  make the line contain it’s message.  As Albert Einstein stated "Imagination is more important that knowledge”    Rich has been providing public sculpture locally, regionally and nationally for twenty years.  He also in partnership with his father Dick Bergen created the “Ad Astra” Sculpture atop the Kansas State Capital Dome.   Rich  is a Kansas Native and an MFA graduate of KSU in sculpture.   Rich’s versatile repertoire of experience and education includes but is not limited to   higher education teaching, community art consulting, public and private sculpture, photography,   installations, computer graphics, mixed media and metal fabrication.