Paul Resika
Paul Resika first came to Provincetown in 1947, at 19, to study with Hans Hofmann. Now an octogenarian, Resika himself has become the master of color and gesture, balancing freedom of gesture within tightly organized composition, with an eye as true as a sailor’s compass to the relationships and contrasts between colors, shapes, and textures.
His piers and boats and fish houses, archetypes of a seaside fishing village, vibrate and float, recede into the shadows and mist, throw their own black shadow on the yellow, sun-blazed side of a shack – all dependent on his masterful juxtaposition of colors on the canvas – and so charge the canvas with soul and energy, that the viewer, too, is activated, stirred, way down deep, where sensual memory resides.
You can view more work of Paul’s here.
