Gerard Tunney

Midsummer Night’s Dreamers and Midsummer Ballet Suite diptych

2021

A dancer looks upwards towards the sun as her fellow dancers sleep during rehearsals. The ballet is based on Shakespeare’s famous play. The green colours and foliage echo the forest ...

This is a diptych of A Distant Stillness and Dancing with the Skies. Dancing with the Skies is a dramatic depiction of the powerful skies over the windswept Fells. Painted in oils a...

Rainer Gross (American, b. 1957) "Neal Twins" (in two parts)," 2000, Oil diptych painting on panel, signed, titled and dated verso, panel (unframed/each): 10.25"h x 9"w, overall 10.25 X 18 inches RAINER GROSS (1951 - ) Rainer Gross was born and educated in Cologne, Germany. He came to the United States in 1973. At that time he worked with Howard Kanovitz and later with Larry Rivers He has exhibited with German galleries and last season at the Tower. His work is represented in numerous private collections. Mr. Gross' excellent draftsmanship and subtle color sense are evident in his acrylics on paper. His paintings and drawings interpret Americana charged with allegorical and classical allusions. The copying of re-rendering ot old masters has a long and venerable history. The Romans copied the Greeks, the Renaissance masters copied the Romans and the academicians of the 19th century copies the Renaissance masters. More recently, such stellar figures as Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Cezanne and Pablo Picasso were "borrowers" who in turn became "lenders" to countless modernists. The "Art about Art" exhibition at the Whitney Museum reminded us that the art of the past can still provide valid models, even in an age when the unique and objective statement has been valued as never before. A prominent figure in that show was Larry Rivers, perhaps the most consistent renowned "borrower" of his generation, who has spent the last 30 years quoting everybody from Rembrandt to Hiroshige. This is from his series “Contact Paintings – Twins” As their name implies, the compositions encompass two painted surfaces that the artist presents as a diptych, each panel imprinting on and mirroring the other. The artist sometimes selects one of the two panels and brings his personal touch by adding one or two brushstrokes. A deeper understanding of Gross’ paintings requires the viewer to consider the challenges entailed in becoming a painter in 1970s Cologne when the ideology of “The End of Painting” professed by Joseph Beuys at the Kunst Akademie Düsseldorf became dominant among the art world’s “elite.” Being a painter meant thinking about the specificities of the medium and new ways to push it forward. In 2017, Gross was included in the Beijing Biennale as a representative of Germany. In 2012, the Museum Ludwig (Koblenz, Germany) held a four-decade survey of his paintings. Other notable national and international exhibits include the Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts (Lausanne, Switzerland), Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion (Champaign, Illinois, USA), and Kunsthalle Emden (Emden, Germany). Gross’ paintings are housed in numerous public collections, including the AT&T Corporate Art Collection, the Cohen Family Collection, the Hirshhorn Collection, the UBS Union Bank of Switzerland, and the Lowe Art Museum. His work has been reviewed by the New York Times, Art in America, ArtNews, The Brooklyn Rail, The Boston Globe, and others. GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2007 Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA Katharina Rich-Perlow Gallery, New York Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, Galerie Koch, Hannover, Germany Gráficas Works on Paper, Tucson, AR Museum Tucson, Arizona 2006 "Abstrakt", Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany Galerie Koch, Art Miami, and Cologne Galerie Stefan Röpke, Art Fairs, Pulse New York, Bologna, Brussels Galerie Benden und Klimczak, Cologne 2005 Galerie Benden und Klimczak, Germany; Galerie Graf und Schelble, Basel, Switzerland; Michael Schneider Zeitgenössische Kunst Bonn, Germany Galerie Stefan Roepke, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA and Art Chicago; Frankfurter Kunstkabinett: Hanna Bekker vom Rath, Germany, Elvira Bach - Rainer Gross - Stefan Hoenerloh - Alex Katz - Stefan Szczesny - Wanda Pratschke - Hans Steinbrenner Galerie Benden und Klimczak, Cologne, Germany; Michael Schneider Zeitgenoessische Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2003 Galerie Benden und Klimczak, Cologne; Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA; 2002 Auftrag der Farbe,* Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Germany and Kunstverein Trier, Germany; Marcel Sitcoske Gallery, San Francisco, CA DFN Gallery, New York 2001 Accrochage, Frankfurter Kunstkabinett, Hanna Bekker vom Rath, Frankfurt, Germany; Museum Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany; Achrochage, Gallery Inge Baecker, Cologne, Germany; Michael Schneider Zeitgenoessische Kunst, Bonn, Germany; Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Germany*; Galerie Benden und Klimczak, Cologne; Museum Viersen, Viersen, Germany; Marcel Sitcoske Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Galerie Klein, Bad Muenstereifel, Germany; 2000 Achrochage, Frankfurter Kunstkabinett, Hanna Bekker vom Rath, Frankfurt; Michael Schneider Zeitgenoessische Kunst, Bonn, Germany; Rainer Gross, Thomas Kemper, Peter Tollens Galerie Benden & Klimczak, Cologne; 1999 Portraits, Galerie Benden & Klimczak, Cologne, Germany; Still Life and Blick zurück nach vorn, Michael Schneider Zeitgenoessische Kunst, Bonn, Germany; Galeriey Holtmann, Cologne, Germany; Church of St.Gerion, Cologne, Germany; X-MAS , Kent Gallery, New York; 1998 Galerie Benden & Klimczak, "Art Cologne" fair, Cologne, Germany; Gallery OZ, Paris, Gallery Graf & Schelble, Basel, and Art Zurich, Switzerland; Galerie Holtmann, Art Basel, Switzerland and Art Cologne,Germany; 1997 Solo, Madrid Museo de la Cidad, Madrid, Spain; Schneider Contemporary Art, Bonn, Germany; Abstract , Galerie Benden & Klimczak, Viersen, Germany; Frankfurter Kunstkabinett, Hanna Bekker vom Rath, Frankfurt, Germany; 1996 The World is a Broken Mirror , Galerie Inge Baecker, Koln, Germany; Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany; Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany; Marquardt Ausstellungen, Munich, Germany; 1995 How Red Works, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Canada; Marquardt Ausstellungen, Munich, Germany; 1994 Gelb, Marquardt Ausstellungen, Munich, Germany; Frankfurter Kunstkabinett, Hanna Bekker vom Rath, At Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany; Gallery Moos, Toronto, Canada; 1993 Gallery Baecker, Cologne, Germany; The Return of the Cadavre Exquis...

"Story No. 6 Diptych" Abstract Painting 60 x 97" inch by Yoram Katz ABOUT THE ARTIST: Born in Israel. Graduated from the Bazelel Art Academy in Jerusalem. Resides in Los Angeles, Ca...