East End Arts: Juried Exhibit -- 'Fluid Patterns: Water and a Changing Climate' / Opens Nov 1st

East End Arts Council Presents a Juried Group Art Exhibition
Addressing the Climate’s Impact on our Water

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Fluid Patterns: Water and a Changing Climate

Juried by Marta Baumiller & Rainer Gross
November 1 – December 13, 2025

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East End Arts Council’s Andy Tarshis Fine Art Gallery

133 E. Main St. Riverhead, NY

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Opening Reception: Saturday, November 1 4:00pm-7:00pm

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A new group environmentally-focused fine arts exhibition regarding the theme of water and climate change is coming to the Downtown Riverhead Art’s District from November 1 through December 13, 2025 at East End Arts Council’s [EEAC] Andy Tarshis Fine Art Gallery. The exhibition opens on Saturday, November 1st with quiet viewing hours from 12PM-4PM, followed by an opening reception with the artists and curators from 4PM-7PM.

The jurors’ idea for Fluid Patterns began with a stark local fact: East End Arts Council, a community gallery since 1977, must relocate due to rising flood risks. The gallery itself is now a canary in the coal mine — a symbol of shifting environmental conditions that affect communities around the globe. Who is better than artists to explore and interpret this urgent reality?

Here on the East End of Long Island, we are literally surrounded by water, an elemental force that shapes our identity and our landscape. Water is a universal concern, which may explain the strong response to this open call. Across the planet, water is a symbol, a resource, a threat, and a muse. We received many submissions reflecting a stunning range of media, ideas, and emotional registers. The selected works explore our complex relationship with water, past, present, and future, through painting, photography, sculpture, video, and more. From reimagined icebergs and cast water forms to surrealist dreamscapes and lyrical seascapes, these artworks show us water’s beauty, its evolving nature, and our role in its patterns and cycles. At this moment of growing awareness about ecological issues, Fluid Patterns reveals how contemporary artists are responding (often ahead of the curve) — and how we might collectively imagine new ways of living with water. With this exhibition, EEAC invites residents and visitors alike to join us and immerse yourself in these patterned visions of the world in flux.

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The exhibition was juried by local artists and EEAC Members Marta Baumiller and Rainer Gross, who received over two hundred submissions. After a rigorous blind selection process, they curated Fluid Patterns with works from 43 artists in a variety of mediums:

Thomas Anderson • David Andree • David Blow • Lucy Boyd-Wilson • Linda Byrne • Jackie Dandelion • Cynthia Digiacomo • Christine Donnelly • Danielle Eubank • Cathleen Ficht • Michael Gary • Debby Goan • Catherine Gowen • Gabriella Grama • Justin Greenwald • Susan Guihan Guasp • Yen Ha • Franklin Hill Perrell • Helen Hines • Danielle Jones • Eve Kaplan-Walbrecht • James Kelson • Diana Kogos • Lyu Kroll • Donna Lassker • Maggie Leininger • Mike McLaughlin • Rebecca Murtaugh • Nancy Nicolescu • Lorelei Olk • Linda Pasca • Wendy Prellewitz • Anne Sherwood Pundyk • Sudie Rakusin • Patricia Russac • Bill Shillalies • Adam Smith • Sara Tack • Mary Twomey • Louise Wallendorf • David Warren • David Weiner • Seongmin Yoo

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Fluid Patterns Jurors:

Marta Baumiller is an artist, designer, and world traveler. Originally from Warsaw, Poland she emigrated to the US and presently lives and works in a renovated barn studio on the North Fork of Long Island. She has been a costume maker, milliner, fashion, lighting and product designer as well as an arts educator. Marta’s work, in all its various forms, can be found in galleries, hotels, and stores around the globe from The Straw Hat Restaurant in Anguilla to Salesforce offices in Silicon Valley and Westin Hotels worldwide. Her designs have been published in the New York Times, Wallpaper and Interior Design Magazine, among others. She has recently exhibited at the Zuccaire Gallery in Stony Brook, Serendip Gallery in Kobe Japan, Arts Westchester, SUNY Chancellors Gallery in Albany, Portal: GI on Governor’s Island, and numerous other galleries in the New York area.

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Rainer Gross is an internationally renowned German American artist. Born in Cologne, Germany, he has worked in New York City since 1973 until moving his art studio to Cutchogue in 2017. His paintings have been widely exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the United States, Europe and Asia including solo exhibitions at the Ludwig Museum Koblenz in Germany, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Illinois US, Kunsthalle Emden, Germany and many others. Gross’ paintings are in numerous public and private collections. His work has been reviewed by The New York Times, Art in America, The Boston Globe, ArtNews, Arts magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Germany, El Pais, Spain and others.

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**Galley Hours during Fluid Patterns:**

Thursday 12PM – 5PM

Friday 12PM – 5PM

Saturday 12PM – 5PM

Sunday 11AM – 3PM

The Andy Tarshis Fine Art Gallery is located at 133 E. Main St., Riverhead, NY 11901

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East End Arts Council

East End Arts & Humanities Council [East End Arts Council / EEAC] is a 501[c][3] nonprofit organization with the mission to enrich and connect the communities of Eastern Long Island through the arts. Since its inception in 1972, EEAC has become a year-round regional hub for art and music education and a showcase for artists who live, work, and visit the area with its school, galleries, community events, and collaborations. As the third oldest arts organization on the East End, the Council is known for its fine arts galleries in Downtown Riverhead, multiple satellite member art galleries across the North and South Forks, art & music school featuring comprehensive 1-on1 and group programs for all ages and abilities, the MOSAIC Festival [1996], Teeny Awards [2002], Harvest Gospel Concert Series [1986], MLK Portrait Project [2020], $10,000 Linde Rie Cohen Rising Star Award [2022], Music Masters Intensive [2011], and Bandspace for Veterans [2025]. It is currently building East End Arts for ALL enrichment programming to cater to local disabled and marginalized communities.

For more information, email info@eastendarts.org, call 631.727.0900, or visit eastendarts.org.

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East End Arts Council | PO Box 1002, Riverhead, NY 11901 | 631.727.0900

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