Richard Raiselis: DEERBUFFET
On View: January 9–February 21, 2026
Reception: Saturday, January 10, 1–3 pm
Artist remarks at 2 pm.
Shape-shifting flora adds a new variable to the puzzle of plein-air. Landscape painters who work for more than one day on a picture know that today’s conditions will not be quite like yesterday’s, nor tomorrow’s. I accept and embrace the inevitable problems that change interjects. Choices redouble, doubt enters, and time twists. Memory and reflection gnaw away at any expectation of objective seeing, much as the deer deconstruct my trees. Each day, I am reminded that perception is binary: physical and psychological, facts plus feelings.
Richard Raiselis
Raiselis is an Associate Professor at the Boston University College of Fine Arts, and his work has been shown at the National Academy of Design in New York, the Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria in Austin, Texas, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others.