: "Robert Rasely: Enigmatic Landscapes" will be on view June 6 to
July 18 at the Allan Stone Gallery.
The exhibition will feature magical, often grotesque paintings
depicting mysterious, dreamlike interiors and landscapes
inhabited by odd objects and creatures.
The highly glazed oil on panels recall religious icon painting,
as well as Italian Renaissance painting, but with a surrealistic
undertone.
Rasely (1950-2005) grew up in Stroudsburg, Penn. He attended the
Pennsylvania Academy of the 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. In 1988 he was awarded the prestigious Adolph and
Clara Obrig Prize by the National Academy of Design.
The gallery will also present "John Parks: British Landscapes as
Finger Painting," featuring paintings of archetypal British
scenes: gardens, landscapes, foxhunting, polo, tennis, and - the
most British of all hobbies - train spotting.
Parks chose to adopt a children's painting method and execute his
tactile, impastoed works as finger painting.
Parks was born in Leeds, England, in 1952. He began painting
landscapes when he was at the Royal College of Art in London. He
moved to New York City in 1976 and has been a member of the
faculty of the School of Visual Arts in New York since 1979. In
addition to showing widely as a painter, he has published many
articles on art and travel.
The gallery is at 113 East 90th Street. For information,
allanstonegallery.com or 212-987-4997.
