Influenced by landscape and the gardens of New Jersey and Upstate New York, D’Onofrio sends your eye weaving through complex visual ‘tapestries’ of nature. Loops of energy suggest nature at its most basic as they swirl with intricacies and details of uninterrupted landscape bathed in warm sunshine.

“In this moment of simultaneity between vista and minutiae each gesture of the painting expresses a plurality of meaning. Each dot, splash, or swipe resonates through the entire field of the work.” 
-- Raffaele D’Onofrio

“In the hands of Raffaele D'Onofrio, nature regains its sense of mystery and primal power. His works explore, not the surface of nature, but its underlying sense of movement and pattern. In his paintings, fibrous cords and looping tendrils form a screen separating us from a pulsing world. Behind the screen, we glimpse flecks of light and color that suggests buds, leaves, the mottled surface of a pond, or the tangle of foliage deep in the forest. Colors are intense and seductive, evoking the brilliant hues of forest blooms, the shimmer of butterfly wings, the play of light and shadow on the forest floor. However, the looping web in the foreground holds us off, serving as a reminderthat nature both precedes and will outlast us.”  – Eleanor Heartney, Art in America


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