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Welcome to the Rains Web Gallery. This site features exclusive paintings and photography from fine artist, Aaron Rains.
Many of the peices displayed are privately owned. Prints are available by request. For more information contact Aaron Rains at
This is an automatic painting, which means that the brush guided Aaron's hand throughout it's creation. It chose to be an elephant with his trunk wrapped around a branch, however it looks like a different picture depending on how you rotate it.
Original 36"x48" $450 unframed
| "The Elephant Jungle" (2003) acrylic on masonite |
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Gruau's eye for minimalist design was also an inspiration to Rains.
This is a reproduction of a Rene Gruau Seriograph,"Rouge et Noir".
Reproduction 12"x24" $200
| "Gruau Reproduction" (2003) acrylic on masonite |
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Niszner's classical style inspired Aaron to try his hand at the realism technique. Aaron chose to paint Niszner's still life (below) with a shinier, pewter pot in place of the copper one because he felt that it contrasted the background colors better.
Reproduction 24"x36" $480
| "Niszner Reproduction" (2003) acrylic on masonite |
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This Self Portrait of Aaron Rains was inspired by a photo that he took of himself at age twenty three.
All self portraits are privately owned by the Rains Family, and are not available for reproduction or print.
| "Self Portrait" (2003) acrylic on masonite |
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| original peice not for sale |
"She Never Liked Olives" is a unique work that shows Aaron's fondness of surrealism. The peice was originally to be a realistic painting of a girl with a martini on a balcony. Rains thought that the image needed a few bizarre twists to make it more interesting. Aaron started painting different displaced objects, and he experimented with double imagery in the vodka droplets. The droplets form the likeness of a dolphin with a ball on it's nose, and simultaneously take the form of a human cranium. The original peice is privately owned by Mr. Bruce Picone, however signed limited edition prints are available by request.
| She Never Liked Olives (2003) acrylic on masonite |
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"Shell Visions" was made in the likeness of an actual shell found on the beach in Sarasota, Florida. As the sun moved closer to the horizon, Rains noted that the natural grooves and coloring of the shell appeared to be like a smog-covered city skyline. Aaron's friend, Richard Zimmerman could not see the same images, so that inspired Rains to paint a more lucid version of what his artistic eye beheld. This peice has been damaged by a large scratch that was created during one of Aaron's many relocations. The scratch was the first inspiration for newer peices that have been distressed heavily by hand saws, sand paper, and other means of deconstruction that immediately follow the completion of the image. Most of these peices have reminants of sawdust and finger prints.
This painting is available for $320. It features a detached, white, velvet matting (rare for Rains), and is still unframed. It is to be rested against a wall, or on a ledge, and not hung or suspended for display by standard framing wire.
| "Shell Visions" (2001) acrylic on masonite |
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| "Ticky Tacky Houses" (2001) acrylic on masonite |
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| "Three Walls, Four Beds, Five Cellmates" (2001) |
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| "The Gym" (2001) acrylic on masonite |
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| "The Climb" (2001) acrylic on masonite |
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