Richard Gins has lived and worked in Red Hook, Brooklyn since 1983, when he made his home and studio in a historic firehouse on the waterfront. He holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of New Mexico, and his drawings, paintings, monotypes, photographs and videos have been shown in New York, Vienna, New Orleans, St. Tropez and Costa Rica.

In his words: “Drawing has been my most important medium, where I explore ideas, people, places and things. I like working directly from the landscape, as it requires me to be present in the moment, seeing, drawing and painting.”

A lifelong interest in philosophy, esoteric knowledge and physics runs through the work: windows and masks as metaphors for inner and outer experience, the light and dark he calls Chiarobscuro, and the altered space and time of his SPIME photographs, each made in a single shot, in-camera.

Selected solo exhibitions include Quantum at Salomon Arts, Tribeca (2011); Subway Riders at Kentler International Drawing Center, Red Hook (1995); Galerie Seghaier, Vienna (1992 to 1994); Penson Gallery, Soho (1989); and Hugh Piney Gallery, Soho (1985 and 1986). His work is part of the Kentler Flat Files and many private collections.

Read The Art of Seeing, an interview with Richard Gins by Kirpal Gordon.