Paul Resika “Through The Trees”

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[Image: Paul Resika,"Through the Trees (Deep Yellow)" (1998) colored etching, 10 3/4 x 15 in.]

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Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects presents Through The Trees, our fourth exhibition by the 90 year old New York painter Paul Resika. This exhibition includes approximately a dozen black and white and color etchings made by the artist with master printer Marjorie Van Dyke between 1997 and 1998. It also includes a small group of paintings of the same motif from 1993.

Resika’s printed images in both color and black and white depict a view through the trees from his home on Cape Cod, which looks north-west towards Provincetown. These etchings, made in small editions, employ a sureness of abstract form within an arabesque of tangled trees. The play between negative and positive space, in the motif of an opening within a tangled field, has been used by painters from Theodore Rousseau to Per Kirkeby. These images reverse the­­ polarities of inside and out. Resika’s color etchings evoke early Fauve landscapes with a breezy modernity and sureness of touch. In his oil paintings, Resika is a master of color harmony and a looping, melodic painterly line.

Resika studied under Hans Hofmann as a teenager in the late forties in New York and Provincetown before departing for Venice and Rome in 1950 to study the old masters. After casting aside Hofmann’s abstract principles, his Italian palette turned more neutral, inspired partially by Corot. Upon his return to the United States, Resika devoted himself increasingly to the exploration of light and color, and the synthesis of abstraction and representation. Over his eight decade-long career, Resika has exhibited at the Peridot Gallery, Graham Modern, Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, and Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York. Resika works in New York City and Truro, Massachusetts.

His work is in many significant public collections including The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. He is a member of The National Academy of Design and American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Previous Resika exhibitions at SHFAP include 8+8 in 2013, Empty in 2017 and Geometry and the Sea in 2018. He had a retrospective at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum in 2015. In the summer of 2019, at the same venue, he will be part of Color Beyond Extraordinary: Hawthorne, Hofmann and Resika.

The exhibition will also include works in our rear gallery by Seymour Remenick, Jan Müller, Marsden Hartley, James Lechay, Joseph DeMartini, Milton Avery, and Louis Michel Eilshemius.

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Schedule

from March 27, 2019 to April 28, 2019

Opening Reception on 2019-03-27 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Paul Resika

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