Richard Raiselis: DeerBuffet

Shape-shifting flora adds a new variable to the puzzle of plein-air. Landscape painters who work for more than one day on a picture know that today’s conditions will not be quite like yesterday’s, nor tomorrow’s. I accept and embrace the inevitable problems that change interjects. Choices redouble, doubt enters, and time twists. Memory and reflection gnaw away at any expectation of objective seeing, much as the deer deconstruct my trees. Each day, I am reminded that perception is binary: physical and psychological, facts plus feelings—Richard Raiselis

Raiselis is an Associate Professor Emeritus at the Boston University College of Fine Arts, and his work has been shown at the National Academy of Design in New York, the Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria in Austin, Texas, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others.

The opening reception for DeerBuffet will be held on January 10, from 1–3 pm. Artist remarks at 2 pm.