R I C H A R D G I N S
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After graduating with a degree in Fine Arts from the University of New Mexico, I established a store-front art studio and continued my visual arts and music pursuits, but also began interacting with the community. As part of an effort to develop artist live/work spaces in downtown Albuquerque, I worked with the Mayor and spear-headed the development of a city-wide art center, the Albuquerque United Artist (AUA). Also I was one of 6 artists who occupied the first fully developed live/work space in the downtown area. Later I spear-headed and directed a not-for-profit performing arts center, The Broadway Jazz Club. Beside running the club with it's local and visiting musicians and poets, I also produced two major concerts, one featuring Sonny Rollins, and another featuring John Mclaughlin.
In 1983 I moved to New York City, settling in Red Hook Brooklyn, on the New York City waterfront. I found an empty historic firehouse and made it my home. During my 32 years in Red Hook I have been studying the creative process; producing drawings, paintings, monotypes, photographs; writing songs and music; screenplays, proposals; and exhibiting my work domestically and abroad. I've taught drawing and painting classes; creatively consulted on a number of new new businesses; co-directed a Soho gallery; and conceived, curated and particpated in a successful exhibition that received a positive review in ArtNews magazine. I appreciate all the amazing international talent found in New York City which has been very inspirational and influential. I directed a Chelsea gallery for four years and I continue to explore all my many parallel and complementary media.
After three years of intense focus and work, I finished a new book about the Creative Process as an inner transformative process. Watch for news of its release.
Resume of Exhibitions, Events, Education and Publications
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
SPIME MMA '24 PhotograpPPremieres March 9, 2024 at 6:00 PM
2023
Cactus Dance, Plants & Stones
Photographs
2023
New Drawings of Stone People
2023
Debut of new Photographs, "A Night of Light & Color"
with "Modern Man", an original song
2023
2023
Photographs
2022
Video about the Creative Process and my work
2022
One Hundred Works on Paper Benefit Exhibition
Kentler International Drawing Space
2022
2022
Debut of Insectus Metalica, New Photographs and Song
2022
Night Abstractions II , New Photographs
2021
2021
Debut of Crack in the Collective video v
2021
Debut of STONE PEOPLE 2
2020
Debut of LETTER TO EMILY
SPIME Figures 2020
2020
Debut of SPIME TIME Photographs
2020
Featured Artist from the Flat Files
Kentler International Drawing Center
2020
Debut of Night Abstraction Photographs
2020
Zoom Reception (Covid-Safe)
April 27,2020
2020
Debut of New SPIME WARP Self Portrait Photographs
2019
Red Hook Open Studio
2019
Debut of SPIME WARP Self Portrait Photographs
2019
Debut of Artifacts 2019
2018
Debut of Skeletons: Photographs
2018
Debut of Phantom Spirits: Photographs
2018
Published Book- "The Creative Process:
A PRIMER Gurdjieff to Picasso and Beyond"
2016
Debut of MISSION X: A Journey Through SubSpace, Video
2015
Debut of the IN MY TOMB: Six Photographs by Richard Gins
2015
Debut of SPIME WARP MTA: Photographs by Richard Gins
2014
Debut of the INNER/OUTER Drawings, Video
2011
QUANTUM: Paintings, Drawings, Monotypes. Salomon Arts, Tribeca, New York City
2008
Urban Art Works: Monotypes & Ink Drawings, Tea Lounge Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2007
Thirty Five Years of Self Portraits, Sunny's Red Hook Artist Space, Brooklyn
2003
Ridge Street Gallery at Teddy's, Williamsburg, NY, Paintings and Monotypes
2002
Monotypes, "Abstract Portrait Series" Montserrat Gallery, Soho, NY
2002
Paintings and Photography, Red Hook Blue Gallery, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY
1995
Subway Riders: A collection of ink line drawings done on the NYC Subway,
Kentler International Drawing Space, Red Hook, Brooklyn.
1994
Recent Paintings, Galerie Seghaier, Vienna, Austria
1993
Recent Drawings, Monotypes, Photography Galerie Seghaier, Vienna, Austria
1992
Recent Drawings, Galerie Seghaier, Vienna, Austria
1991
Recent Monotypes & Drawings, Margaruite Oestreicher Fine Arts, New Orleans
1989
Recent Work, Paintings & Monotypes, Penson Gallery, Soho, New York
1988
"Night People" Monotypes, Drawings and Photography, The Tunnel, New York City
1987
Exhibition - Alliance of Figurative Artists, New York
1987
Monotypes, Sterling Gallery, New York
1987
Drawings, Paintings, Monotypes, Photography, Citibank, 57th St. New York
1986
Recent Monotypes, Hugh Piney Gallery, Soho, New York
1985
"1+3=2", A Collection of Figurative Works, Hugh Piney Gallery, Soho, New York
1983
Moved to New York. Established Firehouse Studio.
1982
Family Portrait – Cityscapes, Central Six Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico
1981
Ink Drawings, Tanoan Country Club, Albuquerque, New Mexico
1981
One Man Show, Farmington Civic Center, Farmington, New Mexico
1981
Monotypes, Albuquerque Country Club, Albuquerque, New Mexico
1980
Recent Monotypes. Central Six Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico
1979
Drawings, Ken Phillips Gallery, Denver, Colorado
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016
"Dos Rios" Paintings of Richard Gins and Oskar Lopez, Rakso Zepol Gallery, Quepos, Costa Rica
2015
A FRESH LOOK: New Self Portraits, Group Show, Curator and artist, Richard Gins, Montserrat Gallery, Chelsea, NYC
2015
The Kentler Flatfiles: Red Hook Artists-The 90's, Peninsula Art Space, Red Hook, Brooklyn, Curated by Florence Neal
2014
LARGE & SMALL: Selections from the Kentler Flat Files, Kentler International Drawing Center, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY
2010
Noho Art Walk, Noho, New York City
2010
Kentler International Drawing Space, Red Hook Brooklyn, NY
2009
NYC City Drawings, Dona Levy Gallerie, St. Tropez, France.
2004
Diesel Gallery, Collectors Auction, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY
2003
“Love, Hopes, Sex & Dreams” Superfine Gallery, DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY
2003
A Fresh Look: An Invitational Exhibition of 19 Artist's New Self Portraits
Curated by Richard Gins & participant, Diesel Gallery, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY
2002
"Three on a Match" Gallery OneTwentyEight, New York, NY
2002
"Red Hook" 450 Broadway Gallery, Soho, NY
2000
Small Works Exhibition, Kentler International Drawing Center, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY
2000
"Red Hook 8" Group Exhibition, Kentler International Drawing Center, Brooklyn, NY
1999
Small Works Exhibition, Kentler International Drawing Center, Red Hook,
1998
Guest Artist, Images from Austria, Suzanne Seghaier, curator, New Century
Artist, Inc. Soho, NY
1998
"Alumni Artists", Simms Fine Art Center Gallery, Albuquerque Academy, NM
1993
Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Association, Beard St. Pier, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NYC
1990
Guest Artist, Galerie Seghaier, Vienna, Austria
1990
Invitational - Tanzania Wildlife Fund, New York
1989
23 French Artists & One American, Contemporary French Art Gallery, New York
1988
Four Artists, Four Countries, Penson Gallery, Soho, New York
1987
Micro '87, Now Gallery, East Village, New York
1986
Micro '86 Now Gallery, East Village, New York
1986
Is There Synchronicity? The Monotype Experiment, Hugh Piney Gallery, Soho, New
York (Conceived, curated & participated by Richard Gins)
1985
Mini-Max, Now Gallery, East Village, New York
1985
After Dante's Inferno, C.U.A.N.D.O., East Village, New York
1985
I.A.E. Artists, Cafe Americano Gallery, Tribeca, New York
1985
Getting It Off, Civilian Warfare Gallery, New York
1985
Micro Wave, Now Gallery, East Village, New York
1982
Armory Show, Armory for the Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1981
13 Albuquerque Artists, University of New Mexico
REVIEWS, TEACHING, LECTURES, PUBLICATIONS
2011
Interview by Kirpal Gordon, Giant Step Press,
2000
Lecture on Subway Riders...Drawings 1983-1996, NYC Transit Museum
1997
Figure drawing Workshop, Soho New York
1996
Painting on the cover of the Chronogram publication, New Paltz, N.Y
1994
Article: "Artist as Social Worker" featured in various NYC newspapers.
1992
Monotype Workshop, University of Costa Rica
1992
Taught Workshop to visiting summer art class, University of Michigan
1991
Lecture/ Workshop on Monotypes, Printmaking Dept. Tulane University
1990
Featured Artist, "Artist in Art City" Japan Travel Bureau, Special Manhattan Edition
1987
Guest Lecturer, Artists Alliance, East Broadway, New York
1987
Downtown Magazine, published drawings with a review of current show
1985
Art Speak Magazine, Review of "1+3=2" A Figurative Collection of Work”
1986
ArtNews, Vasari Diary, Article on the Monoprint Experiment (May issue)
EDUCATION AND RELATED EXPERIENCE
1985-1987
Co-founder and Artistic Director of the Hugh Piney Gallery, Soho, NY
1978-1980
Spearheaded and directed Broadway Jazz Club Not-For-Profit Organization
1979-1980
Spearheaded Albuquerque United Artist Not-For-Profit Art Organization
University of New Mexico Intaglio Workshop (monotypes)
Senior Citizen Drawing Workshop Project, Albuquerque, NM
Teaching Artist, Alternative High School Art Program, Albuquerque, NM
1975 University of New Mexico, Aluminum Plate Lithography
1974 BFA, University of New Mexico ( Studied with Garo Antresian)
Taking Giant Steps
The official blog of Giant Steps Press.
http://giantstepspress.blogspot.com/2011/12/art-of-seeing-interview-with-richard.html