Joseph Reboli, A Retrospective

Gallery North presents “Joseph Reboli: a Retrospective”, featuring paintings from throughout Joe Reboli’s life. Reboli’s paintings embrace the Long Island landscape and his beloved summer scenery from Block Island. The exhibition reveals his earlier, more subdued tonal works with their simple objects rendered in subtle golds and browns, to his later, more atmospheric works that embrace Long Island’s historic architecture and brilliant light filled skies. In all we see Reboli’s rapt attention to composition and detail. 

Joseph Reboli was born in Port Jefferson in 1945, and was educated at the Paier School of Art in New Haven, Connecticut. After graduation he served in the Army Exhibit unit in Alexandria, Virginia where he continued painting in his spare time. As early as his teenage years, and throughout his career in the army he began and continued exhibiting at Gallery North.  In 1969 he completed his service and settled in Stony Brook. Reboli lived his life on Long Island’s North Shore, developing his career on an artist based on a sense of place and love of light and color. Reboli strove for excellence. Balance, harmony and an unflinching eye for detail inform his paintings. Reboli captured the beauty and nature of historic places without sentimentality. His work has been the subject of five museum exhibitions, over 20 solo exhibitions and numerous group shows.

Joseph Reboli’s paintings were the subject of a book “Joseph Reboli”  by Deborah J. Johnson, c. 1998, in conjunction with the Joseph Reboli Retrospective at the Museums at Stonybrook in 1998.  Reboli’s paintings are in national and international collections and his life and accomplishments are revered locally.

Gallery North is hosting an ArTalk, “Remembering Joe”, with Christain White and others sharing stories and memories, June 21 from 6 – 8 p.m.

Gallery North hours are Tuesday – Saturday 10 – 5 and Sunday 12 – 5. 

For more information contact:  Daniene Byrne 751-2676