Ed No. 1 installed. Oil on linen 38” x 60”. #artinthehome
Gaya’s home. Visual surprises everywhere.
What an exciting home. Thank you Gaya for letting me into your wonderful world.
Monastery Staircase. #vertigo #garrisoninstitute #meditation #goingdeeper
“The Hidden World of Objects,” curated by Kelcey Edwards, included four richly colored and optically vibrant paintings by Richard Pasquarelli. Partly representational and partly abstract, these sensual images of Pasquarelli unexpectedly come across as peculiar still lifes depicting slices of dense and disorganized spaces inhabited by the absent individual whose existence is largely linked to such objects as electronic devices, books and piles of paper, suggestive of the quintessence of the untidy home, corporate workplace or academic office. Among the paintings executed through oil on mylar and mounted on panels, “Ed No. 8” represents an almost tumbling pile of seven books whose tails and heads traverse the picture plane from the lower right side of the composition upwards toward the left. The apparently falling pile of books is crowned with an unrecognizable form in various shades of blue, artfully pairing similitude and abstraction. Pasquarelli masterfully compresses the pictorial space through a linear and planar syntax of mostly identifiable objects, along with nonrepresentational, dark grounds, although a certain softness of line and fluent layering of paint are also visible. The partial figures of the painting, while conveying the semblance of books, retain a sense of flatness and hence reassert the two-dimensional reality of the picture surface, recalling Andy Warhol’s illusory statement, “… just look at the surface of my paintings… There's nothing behind it.” The tail or head of a given book in Pasquarelli’s slippery space appears as a threshold of perusal and scrutiny, perhaps first and foremost of Heinrich Wölfflin’s words: “While in classic art every resource is at the service of formal clarity, the baroque on principle avoids making the picture look as if it were arranged for contemplation, and could ever be exhausted in contemplation.” The Renaissance linearity and clarity of “Ed No. 8” are surrounded by Baroque darkness, recession and openness, at times asserting and interrupting the picture’s own grammar with such ease. It functions, as suggested by “The Hidden World of Objects,” as an invite to a world of words, to the book, to the épistémè.
One of my new installation paintings. Self Portrait No. 3, 2019, 28” h x 21” w x 3/4” d (overall). 1 Painting: 14 ½” x 12” x 3/4”, oil on linen over panel. Wall: Benjamin Moore House paints: Secret #AF-710, White Diamond #2121-60, #Black Berry 2119-20, silver paint, nails.
One of my new installation paintings shown at spring break art show this past week. 5 oil paintings hung within a defined area painted on the wall. More to come! Thanks @kelcey_edwards for an amazing week @springbreakartshow
Come check out our booth, E 14, at the SPRING / BREAK Art Show. It looks fantastic and we’ve been having a great response. Curator @kelcey_edwards did an amazing job!
Great opening last night. Amazing attendance. #springbreakartshow2019
Hope to see you at SPRING/BREAK Art Show “Fact and Fiction” opening this week! #springbreakartshow2019 @irongateeast @springbreakartshow tickets available at www.springbreakartshow.com
Began installation today at Spring Break Art Show with @kelcey_edwards. Painting the walls and loading in. Interesting space this year. #springbreakartshow2019
I am excited to announce that I will be exhibiting my new paintings in the SPRING/BREAK Art Show 2019 : Fact and Fiction along with documentary film makers Elan and Jonathan Bogarin’s works based on their film “306 Hollywood”. Our show, “The Hidden World of Objects”, has been curated by Kelcey Edwards. Please visit us in space E14, March 5-11 at 866 UN Plaza, NYC. Hope to see you. #springbreakartshow2019 #springbreakartshow #factandfiction www.springbreakartshow.eventbrite.com
Decommissioned gas pump. Love #Minimalism #Grays #savannahgeorgia
My painting is now part of the museum’s permanent collection. Thank you Mattatuck Museum, I’m honored to be part of such a beautiful collection. “Riverbend” 2015, 36” x 48”, oil on linen.
Remember the days when mom and pop stores could actually survive.
Great turnout last night at the Mattatuck Museum for our panel discussion with me, artists Paul Paiement and Joseph Smolinski and curator Jennifer Terzian. Thanks to the Matt for hosting!!
Thanks to @jennifer.terzian for including my painting “Riverbend” in her beautifully curated show “Convergence” at the Mattatuck Museum. If you happen to be passing through Waterbury, CT, I hope you’ll stop by.