Louis Risoli - From Wish to Dream to Hope

On View: March 10 – April 1, 2023
Reception: Friday, October 8, 6 – 8pm
Walk-through with the Artist: Saturday, March 25, 2pm

“Working on a stained canvas cut through with swirled lines running from top to bottom, I paint a small section, 3 or so inches square, bringing it to finished paint. Then, working more or less left to right, bottom to top, I paint the next section and then the next. With the exception of minor adjustments, when all sections have been filled, the painting is done. In effect, I am mimicking how we see - in small details, which in our brain may coalesce into a big picture. Each section I paint has the immediacy of being itself, as well as being ultimately part of a bigger painting.” - Louis Risoli

On Roostercomb

2020, oil on canvas, 40×60”

Understory

2021, oil on canvas, 40×60”

Walking at the Edge

2021, oil on canvas, 40×60”

Concord River at Great Meadows

2023, oil on canvas, 40×60”

Frozen Marsh by the Charles

2021, oil on canvas, 40×30”

October Lake

2021, oil on canvas, 40×30”

Summer Lake

2021, oil on canvas, 30×40”

Gill Brook

2022, oil on canvas, 44×30”

Lake

2020, oil on canvas, 30×20”
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Louis Risoli

Risoli’s colors are often arresting and vibrant, with the potential to imply frivolity and joy, and these are certainly part of the paintings’ appeal; but under-layers of moody, turbulent color often seep or erupt to the surface, disrupting the complicated patterns that Risoli revels in, and hinting at deep emotion and complex passions.

Risoli has an extensive exhibition history and has work in corporate and public collections, including the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts and the Rose Art Museum in Waltham, Massachusetts.