"Paul Resika: Allegory (San Nicola di Bari)" at the New York Studio School

The New York Studio School presents Paul Resika’s most recent series of paintings, The Allegory Paintings, based on a Fra Angelico predella. The first one was made in 2018, shortly after Resika came across an etching of the predella, and the last one was completed in 2021.

Paul Resika (b. 1928, New York, New York) is best known for his paintings of iconic Provincetown forms. The artist studied under Hans Hofmann as a teenager 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 sober and descriptive. 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, Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York, and Bookstein Projects, New York. Resika splits his time between New York and Truro, Massachusetts. Resika’s work is included in the collections of the Hood Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Addison Gallery among numerous others. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (1984) and has been elected Academician at the National Academy of Design (1978) and the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1994).

Exhibition Dates: Mon, January 31, 2022 - Sun, March 06, 2022

New York Studio School | 8 W 8th St, New York, NY 10011

Exhibitions are free and open to the public from 10am to 6pm daily.