“Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow?” New work by Tom de Gruyl

Opening Reception, Saturday, May 21, 2016. 6-9pm.

Tom de Gruyl, a native of Hilversum, the Netherlands, is a self-styled “drawist” who made his first public foray into the Fine Art field in 1979. Following his first solo exhibition that year, he received honours at many local juried events on Long Island and the New York metropolitan area. As his nature-based, semi-abstract work matured in the 1980s, de Gruyl escalated his involvement with artists’ groups and teaching. The 1990s saw a gradual withdrawal from public view. Following a fifteen-year hiatus, de Gruyl reemerged in 2011 to commence what he terms his “second career”, characterised by a more visceral, memory-based abstraction. He is currently creating a body of work under the collective title, “Amnesia”, which he describes as a “visual memoir”, derived from “mental snapshots” of his seminal life experiences.

Showing through June 11, 2016.

RIPE relocated almost three years ago to a new, expanded gallery space and shop at Rexer’s Crossroads Farm, and we are breathing new life into this gateway to Huntington at the corner of Park Ave and Broadway/Greenlawn Rd.   Sitting just ¾ of a mile north of Jericho Tpke. Rexer’s Crossroads Farm is fusing agriculture and art……..

RIPE Art Gallery is located at 1028 Park Avenue, Huntington, NY 11743.  We are open Tuesday through Thursday, 11AM – 6PM, Friday, 2 – 8PM, and Saturday, 11AM-5PM. For more information, please visit www.ripeartgal.com, or call 631.239.1805.