Doubling:

* Artists have long explored artistic doubling.  Doubling involves combining forms or motifs that appear both alike and unalike.

Works of doubling also explore questions of identity - how we distinguish one form, object, or person from another; how we perceive likeness and unlikeness, resemblance and difference.

- How can artworks cause us to perceive two moments in time at once?

- What is the viewer’s experience of seeing the same thing twice?

- What does it mean to paint the same motif twice?

* From The National Gallery of Art Exhibit,

THE DOUBLE: Identity and Difference in Art since 1900

In painting scenes for a second time, Raleigh ensures that one version is not a copy and that the original painting is not more unique than its double.

Please enjoy this gallery of

Raleigh's DOUBLES