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Duane Street Loft, " Arcilesi's ...large -scale painting, "A painting so ambitious, so reminiscent of Old Masters, so clearly well done, cannot be dealt with lightly...[It is] astonishing in its size, color impact, subject matter and composition. - Hady O'Bell

Our cover artist Vincent Arcilesi has had his landscapes shown in significant shows around the country and is regarded today as an important realist. Many of his works depict the landscapes of the Catskills and Adirondack Mountains, where he often spends the summer months. - Pat Van Gelder

Vincent Arcilesi combines more than anyone else represented here the old and the new. He makes reference to different period in Art history while clearly locating his subjects in the here and now. His classical nudes placed in lushly atmospheric, fully representational spaces as simple as a studio setting but they allude to narrative content. Treated with a masterful handling of form, figures and space together create the impression of a great historical painting. One recalls Ana Mendieta's film works equally charged with symbolism and painterly qualities. Citing also Philip Pearlstein, Lennart Anderson, Alex Katz, Ben Kamihira, and Jack Beal. Arcilesi remains an extremely distinctive painter in his own right. - Florence Lynch, Curator