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RAINER GROSS

Rainer Gross was born in 1951 in Cologne, Germany; Since 1973 he lives and works as an independent artist in New York City, Cutchogue Long Island and Cologne, Germany.

Rainer Gross’s paintings are never as simple as they may seem. For his series Impressions and Strokes and Contact Paintings, Gross loads each surface with many layers of paint, which, in some cases, he then sandwiches with another surface and peels them apart to both add and remove pigment. The process creates the quality of a well-worn wall that has been repainted many times, and produces a negative twin of the original painting that Gross often displays as diptychs. Inspired by the birth of his first child in 1993, Gross moved past the figurative nature of his early work and focused on a more meditative, abstract aesthetic. His progression shows an artist exploring the essential nature of things.
 
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 "Twins - Contact paintings"Galerie Floss und Schultz, Cologne, Germany
2018 "Twins" Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York City; Frederic Boloix Fine Arts, Ketchum, Idaho
2017 Galerie Rother-Winter, Wiesbaden (with Thomas Reiffenscheid); Galerie Filser und Gräf, Munich, Germany; “Freunde treffen sich”, Museum Villa Zanders, Bergisch-Gladbach, (with Wolfgang Niedecken and Manfred Boecker)
2015-16 Frederic Boloix Fine Art, Ketchum, Idaho, USA
2014 Galerie Filser und Gräf, Munich, Germany (with Wolfgang Laubersheimer); Galerie Rother-Winter, Wiesbaden, Germany (with Thomas Reiffenscheid)
2015/16 Frederic Boloix Fine Art, Ketchum Idaho
2014 Galerie Filser und Gräf, Munich, Germany (with Wolfgang Laubersheimer); Galerie Rother Winter, Wiesbaden, Germany (with Thomas Reifferscheid)
2013 Galerie Arnés y Röpke, Madrid, Spain; Galerie Graf und Schelble, Basel, Switzerland; Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, USA
2012 Frederic Boloix Fine Arts, Sun Valley, Idaho, USA; Museum Ludwig, Koblenz, Germany (NY paintings 1972–2012*); Galerie Stefan Röpke, Köln, Germany (Early Paintings); Galerie Hafenrichter, Nürnberg, Germany (Logo paintings on paper and canvas)
2012/11 Galerie Koch, Hannover, Germany (Early Paintings)
2010 Galerie Arnés y Röpke, Madrid, Spain; Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, USA (mit Wlodzimierz Ksiasek); Gráficas, Nantucket, MA, USA
2009 Graf & Schelble Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
2008 Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, USA; Frankfurter Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath, Frankfurt a. M., Germany; Galerie Pfaff, Nürnberg, Germany
2007 Graf & Schelble Galerie, Basel, Switzerland; Galerie Koch, Hannover, Germany
2006 Galería Pedro Torres, Logrõno, Spain; Galerie Benden & Klimczak, Köln, Germany; Galerie Stefan Röpke, Köln, Germany; Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA
2005 Fundation Sala Robayera, Miengo Cantabria, Spain; (Rainer Gross 2005*); Simon Gallery, Morristown, NJ, USA
2004  Axel Raben Gallery, New York, USA; Graf & Schelble Galerie, Basel, Switzerland; Galeria Arnés y Röpke, Madrid, Spain; Galerie Koch, Hannover, Germany
2003 Doppelgänger, Contact paintings, Singles & Twins 1996–2003*
(Wanderausstellung/traveling exhibition):Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren, Germany; Städtische Galerie Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
Museum Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany; Städtische Galerie im Park, Viersen, Germany; Frankfurter Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath,
Frankfurt a. M., Germany; Axel Raben Gallery, New York, USA; Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA
2002 Galerie Benden & Klimczak, Köln, Germany; Galerie Parade, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Michael Schneider Zeitgenössische Kunst, Bonn, Germany
1997 Takt – und Fingerspitzengefühl/Fingertip-Tingling* (Wanderausstellung/traveling exhibition): Kölnische Galerie des Kölnischen Stadtmuseums, Köln, Germany; I - Space, College of Fine and Applied Arts,; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champain, Chicago, IL, USA; Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, Champaign, IL, USA; Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON, Canada
1991 Eine Erbschaft sondergleichen 1991*: BIS Art Space,
Mönchengladbach, Germany; Ohne Worte*: Frankfurter Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath, Frankfurt a. M., Germany; Without Words*: Ruth Siegel Gallery, New York, USA
1989–91 Brustprüfung/Breast Exam* (Wanderausstellung/travelling exhibition): Kunsthalle Emden, Stiftung Henri Nannen, Emden, Germany; Städtisches Museum Gelsenkirchen, Germany
1988 Gallery Moos, New York, USA (LUXUS*)
1984–85 Une collection s'anime. Eine Sammlung lebt* (Wanderausstellung/traveling exhibition): Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland; Galerie Municipale d' Art Contemporain, Saint Priest, France; Städtisches Museum Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
1984 Freitagsgalerie Imhof, Solothurn, Switzerland
Gallery Yves Arman, New York, USA (Forum Zürich, Switzerland)
1983 Gallery Yves Arman, New York, USA; Gabrielle Bryers Gallery, New York, USA; Galerie Krief-Raymond, Paris, France (F.I.A.C., France)
1980 Elizabeth Weiner Gallery, New York, USA
1979 Tower Gallery, Southampton, New York, USA
1974 Galerie Witte, Köln, Germany

Exhibitions marked with an * were accompanied by an exhibition catalogue.