“Robert Rasely: Enigmatic Landscapes” will be on view June 6 to  July 18 at the Allan Stone Gallery.   The exhibition will feature magical, often grotesque paintings  depicting mysterious, dreamlike interiors and landscapes  inhabited by odd objects and creatures.   The highly glazed oil on panels recall religious icon painting,  as well as Italian Renaissance painting, but with a surrealistic  undertone.   Rasely (1950-2005) grew up in Stroudsburg, Penn. He attended the  Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1978 to 1982. There he  studied with Will Barnet, Arthur DeCosta, Sidney Goodman and  Henry Pearson. In 1981 he was presented with the William Emlen  Cresson Scholarship, which he used to study in the Netherlands  and Italy. In 1988 he was awarded the prestigious Adolph and  Clara Obrig Prize by the National Academy of Design.   The gallery will also present “John Parks: British Landscapes as  Finger Painting,” featuring paintings of archetypal British  scenes: gardens, landscapes, foxhunting, polo, tennis, and – the  most British of all hobbies – train spotting.   Parks chose to adopt a children’s painting method and execute his  tactile, impastoed works as finger painting.   Parks was born in Leeds, England, in 1952. He began painting  landscapes when he was at the Royal College of Art in London. He  moved to New York City in 1976 and has been a member of the  faculty of the School of Visual Arts in New York since 1979. In  addition to showing widely as a painter, he has published many  articles on art and travel.   The gallery is at 113 East 90th Street. For information,  allanstonegallery.com or 212-987-4997.
 
    



 
						