Don Resnick was a landscape painter whose work remained closely tied to the terrain, sea, and sky of Long Island, New York. Although he would sketch and draw from nature, Resnick never painted outdoors. Depicted with loose brushwork and “watercolor-like lucidity,” his luminous paintings sought to communicate his vision of the environment. “The inspiration for my paintings is the intense experience of a place—its particular light, its particular space—at a unique moment in time,” he said.
Resnick lived and worked at his studio in Rockville Centre, Long Island, New York, until his death. He studied at Hobart College, Geneva, New York; the New School for Social Research, New York; and the Internationale Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst, Salzburg, Austria. His work is held in several prominent collections, namely the New York Public Library; the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire; and the Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska.
