Ralph Levesque’s Match Maker, at first glance, looks like religious art, from the halo encircling one of the figures to the positions of the figures in relation to each other. We’ve seen the general idea before, in Christian medieval art. But the first glance proves deceiving, an overt meaning elusive. Who or what is the visage in the background? And why the faces on sticks? Are they mirrors? Portals? The title suggests that a transaction of some kind is taking place. But what? We don’t know what’s going on, but the sense of meaning, a belief system being enacted, remains.
Match Maker is part of“Untold Tales,” a show of Levesque’s paintings curated by Johnes Ruta and up now at Mitchell Public Library, 37 Harrison St., through Sept. 30, with a reception for the artist at the library on Aug. 24.
