Monday 16 May 2011 Rackstraw Downes to move to Weatherspoon Art Museum
Rackstraw Downes: Onsite Paintings, 1972-2008, organized by the Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, will be showing from May 28, 2011 – August 21, 2011 at the The Bob & Lissa Shelley McDowell Gallery, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro.
Rackstraw Downes began as a painter of geometric abstractions, under the influence of his Yale School of Art teacher, Al Held.
This is the first major survey exhibition of paintings by the British-born, Yale-educated painter Rackstraw Downes (b. 1939), who divides his time between New York and Texas and has been painting exterior and interior panoramic scenes of the American land- and urbanscape for over thirty-five years.
The exhibition consists of approximately thirty-two works, many of them multiple-part paintings, created between 1972 and 2008. Downes’s panoramic paintings strike a unique balance between realism and abstraction, timelessness and history. He paints exclusively from direct observation over a period of several weeks to several months, outdoors or indoors, but always onsite, using a portable easel.
Rackstraw Downes
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