A Portrait ot the Artist as a Kingfisher, 1997 Oil on wood, 10 1/8 x 10 1/8 inches (25.7 x 25.7 cms) Robert Rasely Enigmatic Landscapes The exhibition will feature magical, often grotesque paintings depicting mysterious, dream-like interiors and landscapes inhabited by odd objects and creatures. The highly glazed oil-on-panel renderings of fantastical scenes and obscure symbols recall religious icon painting, as well as Italian Renaissance painting, but with a surrealistic undertone. The soft blues, pinks and yellows play against dark browns and greens to create sceneries that are filled with light and shadow, yet are strangely empty. Rasely's imagery of sacred hearts, birds, wells, innards, and decaying fruit challanges the viewer to find a concealed meaning within each painting. To wander through his enigmatic landscapes is to search the subconscious for the significance of life, and for the nature of beauty and ugliness. Robert Rasely (1950-2005) grew up in Stroudsburg, PA. He attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts from 1978 to 1982. There he studied with Will Barnet, Arthur DeCosta, Sidney Goodman and Henry Pearson. In 1981, he was presented with the William Emlen Cresson Scholarship, which he used to study in the Netherlands and Italy. He began showing with the Allan Stone Gallery in 1984. In 1988 he was awarded the prestigious Adolph and Clara Obrig Prize by the National Academy of Design. Exhibition: June 6 - July 18, 2005 Gallery hours: Tues-Fri 10 am - 6 pm, Sat 10 - 5 pm Summer hours: Mon-Thu 10 am - 6 pm, Fri 10 - 4 pm August closed Allan Stone Gallery 113 East 90th Street USA-New York, NY 10128 Telephone +1 212 987 4997 Fax +1 212 987 1655 Email info@allanstonegallery.com www.allanstonegallery.com |
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