Golden Years Exhibition at Rainmaker Gallery
Event Details
The autumn exhibition at Rainmaker Gallery is a solo show by octogenarian Rick Grimster. Golden Years presents his most recent paintings alongside works made in the three-year creative surge that
Event Details
The autumn exhibition at Rainmaker Gallery is a solo show by octogenarian Rick Grimster. Golden Years presents his most recent paintings alongside works made in the three-year creative surge that followed his remarkable gallery debut Belonging in 2023. Rick Grimster is a citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. His birth father was a Native American GI based in England during World War II. Grimster attended Cheltenham School of Art in the 1960s and gained an MFA in 1970. An intensely private man, he continued to paint throughout his life without any intention of exhibiting his work until three years ago.
Grimster’s vibrant acrylic paintings are abstracted autobiographical landscapes that chart his shifting identity from adoptee to Indigenous elder. Golden Years radiates the creative force of an artist enjoying commercial success in the autumn of his life.
Exhibition opening & artist reception, Saturday 26 September 2-4pm
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Image: Stands in the Sun by Rick Grimster
