Richard Raiselis is recognized for his sweeping urban vistas and for his complex examinations of vegetation and landscape. His paintings are concerned as much with the process of seeing as they are with the things shown.

Raiselis' work from 2012-2018 takes advantage of lofty perspectives above Boston's financial district and Kenmore Square areas to develop elaborately observed treatments of dense views of structures and space.

In Raiselis’ 2022 exhibition, perched views of Boston’s skyline are paired harmoniously with views from the artist’s back porch in a suburb west of Boston. His paintings of man-made structures mimic the forms of robust trees in the woodland landscape. Light filtered through branches and foliage imitates the bright reflections against gridded windowpanes.

Raiselis has been an Associate Professor at the Boston University College of Fine Arts since 1996. His work has been shown at the National Academy of Design in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Butler Institute of American Art, in Youngstown, Ohio, and the New Britain Museum of American Art, in New Britain, Connecticut, among others.