Close to Home: New Pastels by Ray Ruseckas

In this exhibition Ruseckas manipulates pastels like no other artist. His surfaces retain only a vestige of the dry, velvety softness we usually associate with the medium. He achieves a more painterly, liquid pooling of colors both subtle and rich. Deep earth tones melt into gossamer tints, and he deploys a seemingly infinite range of blacks and whites.
The hillsides, forests, and glades of the Connecticut River valley are Ray Ruseckas’s stomping grounds and inspiration. Ruseckas renders the changing dynamics of land in all seasons, deftly capturing fleeting
atmospheric effects as well as the rhythms and proportions of place.
Closed Tuesdays and January 1, July 4, Thanksgiving Day, and December 25.