Paintings

Richard Gins has painted in his Red Hook, Brooklyn studio for more than four decades. His paintings move between figuration and gestural abstraction, using metaphors like windows, masks, cut-outs and shadows to explore the tension between inner and outer experience. Here are four bodies of work: Esoteric Realism, Group Therapy, Chiarobscuro, and Landscape.

Esoteric Realism

“I coined the term Esoteric Realism to contain and represent this large body of work. This work captures something fundamental about humanity and essential about human suffering. It represents a painful condition of man being stuck in an unconscious state of being, unable to see it or change it.” Obstructions, Inner Figures, Cut Outs, Masks, and Windows & Shadows all belong to this body of work.

**Stuck Points**
72" x 72"
Acrylic/Canvas

**Techno Squeeze**
72" x 72"
Mixed/Canvas

**Mushroom Head**
13" x 13"
Lithograph/paper

**Quantum Gate**
72" x 72"
Acrylic,burlap/canvas

**Hanging Over a Pinnacle**
80" x 66"
Acrylic/canvas

**TRINITY**
24 x 30
Acrylic/Canvas
(Private collection)

**Man Inside Mirror**
24"x 24"
Acrylic/collage/canvas
(Private collection)

**Family Portrait w/Cut Outs**
50" x 72"
Oil/canvas

**Gangster in Cut Outs**
22" x 30"
Pastel,charcoal/paper

**Man Inside w/Cutouts**
Acrylic/paper/canvas
(Private collection)

**Man Inside (detail)**
30 x 22
Acrylic,canvas
Mounted/paper

**Inner Figure, Cutouts, Obstructions**
Oil/Canvas
60"x 48"

**Three Ring Circus Sideshow**
Oil/canvas
40" x 60"

**Adam & Eve**
72"x72"
Oil/Canvas
(Private collection)

**Transformation**
60" x 50"
Acrylic/canvas

**Dog Pound**
Acrylic/canvas
(Private collection)

**Inner Couple**
80" x 66"
Acrylic/canvas

**Three Brain Beings**
108" x 68"
Oil/Canvas

**Sideway Cut Out Face**
Acrylic/Canvas
30" x 30"

**Two People in Cut Outs**
Acrylic/canvas
30" x 30"

**Finding Father**
Acrylic/canvas
48"x 36"

**Cut Outs - Black on White**
Acrylic/canvas
30"x 30"

**Cut Outs - White on Black**
Acrylic/canvas
30" x 30"

**The Battle**
72" x 72"
Acrylic/canvas
(Private collection)

**Spatial Embrace**
72" x 72"
Oil/canvas
(Private collection)

**Lost Parts Triptych #1**
80"x 66"
Acrylic/collage/canvas

**Lost Parts Triptych #2**
80"x 66"
Acrylic/collage/canvas

**Lost Parts Triptych #3**
80"x 66"
Acrylic/collage/canvas

**Lost Parts Triptych**
80"x198"
Acrylic/collage/canvas

**Burning Figure**
Acrylic/canvas
60"x 48"

**Sacred Bundle**
Acrylic/canvas
60"x 48"

**State of Being-Fragmentation**
Oil/Canvas
38"x 24"

**State of Being-Transparency**
Oil/Canvas
38"x 24"

**State of Being - Unity**
Oil collage/Canvas
60"x 36"

**States of Beings**
Acrylic/Canvas
60"x 54"

**Serengeti**
Acrylic/burlap/canvas
40"x 40"

**Pieta/Bondage**
Acrylic/canvas
(In Private collection)

**Dreamstate #4**
80 x 66
Acrylic/canvas
(Private collection)

**See-Saw**
Oil/wood panel
(Private collection)

**Coupled - Nature's Day**
Oil/Wood Panel
18"x 24"

**Mask #1**
Acrylic/canvas
(Private collection)

**Mask #2**
Acrylic/canvas
(Private collection)

**Mask #3**
Acrylic/canvas
(Private collection)

**Mask #4**
Acrylic/canvas
(Private collection)

**A Bathroom Dream**
Acrylic/bathmat/canvas
36"x 28"

**Bathroom Dream 2**
Acrylic,washcloth/Canvas
36"x 28"

Group Therapy

“I consider my Group Therapy series to be a kind of Post Abstract Expressionist sensibility, with gestural mark-making, abstraction, and figuration all working together in the painting, emphasizing the surface and creating spatial tension. The Freudian connection in these pieces refers to the sexual innuendoes suggested by the forms. The figures are also in relationship with one another, which supports the idea of a therapy group.”

**Group Therapy #2**
Acrylic/canvas
72" X 72"

**Group Therapy #3**
Acrylic/Canvas
66" x 80"

**Second Coming**
60" x 52"
Acrylic/canvas
(Private collection)

**Group Therapy #7**
Acrylic/canvas
60" x 52"

**Group Therapy in Red**
Acrylic/canvas
66" x 80"

**Freudian Slip**
Acrylic/canvas
36" x 48"

**Group Therapy Session**
Oil/canvas
12" x 16"

Chiarobscuro

“I coined my own term, ‘Chiarobscuro,’ that signifies the intentional casting of darkness or shadows, which in turn obscures the form and breaks up the composition into lit fragments and dark shapes. To really understand light, I must also understand its opposite, the darkness.”

**Talking to Myself in a Ray of Light**
Acrylic/canvas
36" x 36"

**Late Afternoon Shadows**
Pastel/canvas
60"x 40"

**People in Rays of Light**
Monotype
22" x 30"

**Lost at Sea**
Acrylic/canvas
80" x 68"

**Movie House**
Acrylic/canvas
48"x 30"
(Private collection)

**Couple Becoming Family**
Acrylic/canvas
50" x 45"

**Boundless Color**
Oil/canvas
43" x 30"

**Boundary Issues**
Oil/canvas
30" x 24"

**Jailed Nude with Shadows**
Pastel/paper
28" x 35"

**Inside with Shadows**
Acrylic/Canvas
24" x 48"

**Men in Window w/Shadows**
Monotype
28" x 41"

**Dancers in Shadows**
Oil/canvas
48" x 36"

**Blinded Woman**
Acrylic/canvas
24" x 48"

**Man with Window Shadows**
Monotype
30" x 22"

**Man with an X Shadow**
Monotype
30" x 22"

**Man with Shadows #4**
Monotype
30" x 22"

**Three Men in Shadows**
Monotype
28" x 36"

**City Burning**
Oil/canvas
(Private collection)

**Playing Dogs - The Park**
36" x 36"
Oil/canvas
(Private collection)

**Still-life w/Shadows**
36" X 36"
Oil/canvas
(Private collection)

**Broadway Shuffle**
Oil,newspapers/canvas
35" x 50"

**Lost in Time**
72" X 72"
Acrylic/canvas
(Private collection)

**Night on Central Avenue**
Enamel, oil/canvas
24" x 36"

**Memory Garden**
Acrylic/canvas
36" x 48"

**Silverstein Family**
Acrylic/canvas
60" x 60"

**Holding up the Stack**
Acrylic/canvas
60" x 24"

**Playing Marbles**
Acrylic/synthetic
30" x 30"

**A Boy and His Dog**
Acrylic/synthetic
30" x 30"

Landscape

“I like to work outside using my French easel, working directly from the landscape (En Plein Air, Alla Prima), which is exciting and challenging, having to rely on my ability ‘to see,’ draw, and work with color. I also create landscapes that are born out of my imagination. My landscapes, made either from life or invented, usually reflect my ongoing interest in pictorial space, abstraction and gestural mark-making.”

**Ridgecrest Drive, ABQ**
16" x 20"
Oil/Wood panel
(Private collection)

**1616 Cornell St**
Oil/Canvas
(Private collection)

**Boca Grande, Florida**
Oil/canvas
(Private collection)

**Boca Grande, Banyon St.**
Oil/canvas
(Private collection)

**Boca Grande Canal**
Oil/canvas
(Private collection)

**New Mexico Nightscape**
30" x 22"
Monotype
(Private collection)

**Mission Beach, San Diego**
Oil/canvas
12" x 16"

**Asbury Park Boardwalk in NJ**
Oil/canvas
(Private collection)

**Coney Island Brooklyn, NY**
Oil/canvas
(Private collection)

**Manuel Antonio to Quepos**
Oil/canvas
8" x 10"

**Quepos, Costa Rica**
Oil/canvas
12" x 16"

**Clearing Deadwood**
Oil/canvas
8" x 10"

**Manuel Antonio Beach, CR**
Oil/canvas
20" x 12"

**Lost in Deep Structures**
Oil/canvas
16" x 20"

**Our Fertile Mother**
Oil/canvas
20" x 16"

**Central Ave. in Albuquerque**
Oil/canvas
24" x 36"

Paintings

Esoteric Realism

Group Therapy

Chiarobscuro

Landscape

Richard Gins

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