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The title series of large pictures, ‘Veils of Isis’ from the mid 1980s concluded a twenty-five year stretch of painting which can appear in retrospect as a mystical journey into the materiality of oil paint. The title was cribbed from Madame Blavatsky’s notorious tome on Theosophy which transfixed so many painters and composers from the generation of Resnick’s Ukrainian father. The Veils of Isis, as an imaginative projection, calls to mind Yeats’ invitation to “gather me into the artifice of eternity.” Also featured in this exhibition is one of Resnick's mural size paintings from some …