East End Arts & Humanities Council will open “Rainer Gross: Double Take,” featuring new paintings from the artist’s continuing “Twin” series, “Pandemic Fragments” and “Double Takes” photo-based artworks on paper, with a reception on Saturday, September 24, at 4 p.m. The opening and the show will be held at East End Arts Main Gallery, 113 East Main Street in Riverhead.
According to a release issued by East End Arts, “Gross creates vivid abstract paintings in which composition, hue, and surface texture are mirrored across side-by-side canvases. The left and right images share nearly identical flowing patches of acidic color or rich earth tones with heavy flakes of cracked impasto, yet there are differences in both the intensity and positioning of elements. These inexact duplications result from the artist’s self-devised painting technique. Starting with two canvases of equal size, Gross coats the first canvas with multiple layers of water-based pigment. After applying a thick layer of oil paint to the second canvas, he presses both together, then peels them apart to reveal similar imprints on each but with unpredictable areas of paint adhesion.”
Gallery visitors are treated to many never-before seen pieces in Double Take, including a large piece made specifically for the East End Arts space.
Gross has been a member of East End Arts since 2021 and creates works out of his studio in Cutchogue.
“I want to show my current work in the area I live in and be part of a community,” he said
The exhibition will remain on view through November 5. For more information, call 631-727-0900 or visit eastendarts.org.
Staff Writer on Sep 20, 2022