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THBRICHARD RAISELIS, Bright Moment
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621 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
United States
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LiveMar 29, 2025
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24. RICHARD RAISELIS
Bright Moment, 2018
Oil on linen
40" x 24"
$15,000
Courtesy of the artist and Gallery NAGA
Richard Raiselis is recognized for his sweeping urban vistas and for his complex examinations of vegetation and landscape. His paintings are concerned as much with the process of seeing as they are with the things shown. Raiselis’ work from 2012-2018 takes advantage of lofty perspectives above Boston’s financial district and Kenmore Square areas to develop elaborately observed treatments of dense views of structures and space. In Raiselis’ 2022 exhibition, perched views of Boston’s skyline are paired harmoniously with views from the artist’s back porch in a suburb west of Boston. His paintings of man-made structures mimic the forms of robust trees in the woodland landscape. Light filtered through branches and foliage imitates the bright reflections against gridded windowpanes. Raiselis has been an Associate Professor at the Boston University College of Fine Arts since 1996. His work has been shown at the National Academy of Design in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio, and the New Britain Museum of American Art in New Britain, Connecticut, among many others. Richard Raiselis is represented by Gallery NAGA in Boston, MA.
Visit: gallerynaga.com/richard-raiselis.
Artist's Description:
This Boston painting, titled in homage to Rahsaan Roland Kirk’s 1973 jazz recording, Bright Moments, is an easel picture painted entirely on location at 280 Congress Street. The picture portrays a complex mirror image of The Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway and the surrounding financial buildings of Dewey Square. Reflected in the morning sun on the gridded windows of the Intercontinental Hotel, twisted architectural fragments of 280 Congress Street, the Federal Reserve Bank Tower, South Station, One Financial Center, and The State Street Financial Center, stack harmonies of shape and color. For the painter, who loves both Mondrian’s orderly grids and Soutine’s expressive pictorial distortions, this Boston motif made possible a happy marriage of unlikely partners, a “bright moment,” punctuated by one saturated cadmium yellow rectangle in the center right of the composition.
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