Joseph Reboli

Joseph Reboli

​When I visited the Rivoli Center, I was able to see Joseph Rivoli's paintings. It was a calm and warm pastel oil landscape painting, and it is a very familiar landscape that we often see when driving. However, this painting clearly shows how amazing it is to discover beauty in a landscape that can be seen in everyday life in a moment that makes one want to leave it forever. You get the illusion that you are walking down this path inside a painting. After seeing his paintings, I was motivated to capture the beauty of the area where I live.

​Joseph Reboli (September 25, 1945 – June 4, 2004) was an American painter based in Stony Brook, New York, known primarily for his oil paintings of local scenes and subjects in the Three Village area and the East End of Long Island. I became even more interested in him because, more than anything else, he was an artist who revealed the beauty of my region to the world. Joseph Reboli was born in Port Jefferson, New York, and began drawing his paintings at an early age. Reboli had his first solo exhibition at Gallery North in Setauket in 1971.

Through the 2000s, Reboli continued to hold solo exhibitions at Gallery North, the first gallery to exhibit his work. It inspired the Joseph Reboli Wet Paint Festival, an outdoor painting event held annually by the non-profit gallery.

In 1999, the White House Historical Association held an exhibition at the While House Visitor Center in Washington, D.C. titled Impressions of the White House: The President's House Through the Eyes of an Artist, which featured the work of 14 prominent artists, including Joseph Reboli. . ​On June 4, 2004, Joseph Reboli died of lung cancer at the age of 58 in Setauket, New York.

​The Reboli Art and History Center was organized to preserve, support and make available to the public the artistic works of Joseph Reboli.