Author: Katz, Vincent
Title: Paul Resika: Recent Paintings, April 20 - June 9, 2023
Description: New York, Bookstein Projects, 2023. Staplebound. Oblong Quarto. Staplebound exhibition catalog. Illustrated wraps. 21 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 22 x 28 cm. Paul Resika: Recent Paintings will be an exhibition in two parts. A full-color catalogue with an essay by Vincent Katz will be available. The first part of the exhibition will run from April 20 – May 12, 2023. It will feature paintings from the artist’s two latest series: End of Day and Free and Easy. In the End of Day series, a blazing sun, stripped down to its essential spherical shape, is shown moments before its sets on the low horizon line of the ocean beneath it. Both sky and sun vary in fiery shades of oranges and yellows. The Free and Easy series, by contrast, is vertical in its composition and depicts the bright white moon instead of the sun. A stirring water, executed in quick brushstrokes, articulates the bottom edge of the composition. The second part of the exhibition will run from May 17 – June 9, 2023. It will feature two monumental square paintings – Cerulean and Tangelo – each measuring 76 x 76 inches and depicting vast triangles that resemble sails. In the catalog essay for the exhibition, Vincent Katz writes, “There is something Platonic about some of the imagery in these paintings. It is based on intense observation, years of looking, during which the artist has consolidated in his mind essential aspects of what things look like. This ideal image, if it is that, is then disrupted, or made alive, by the actual application of paint. Looking, thinking, painting, and rethinking affect each other, each adding to the project, each capable of suggesting adjustments, until the very last minute.”. VG.

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