Hunter Potter's "Gimme Shelter" Examines the Joy and Peril of Installing Roofs

Hunter Potter is a multi-disciplinary artist who creates whimsical paintings and sculptures that comment on the minutiae of daily life. Based in New York, he is currently exhibiting a new body of work, entitled, "Gimme Shelter" at Ross + Kramer Gallery in East Hampton. "Gimme Shelter" examines Potter's coming of age living in Upstate New York as a full-time roofer. He nostalgically uses these memories to create characters he described in a statement with the gallery as "some of the hardest worki...