The recent works of Richard Ogden Perry are on display in the Craine Gallery through the month of October. The exhibit features a mix of intaglio reliefs and watercolor paintings. Richard has explored the medium of relief since 1975, when he was first enamored with the medium’s ability to combine elements of drawing, painting, and sculpture to create three-dimensional “holographic” illusions that change in appearance as the viewer moves and as the light on the reliefs change.

A reception for the artist will be held in the Craine Room on Saturday, Oct. 12, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Richard is also teaching a two-part course for the Friends of Snow Library Fall Lifetime Learning session, which will dive deeper into his journey as an artist and the techniques he has explored. The first lecture in the course will be on Tuesday, Oct. 8, from 1:30 to 3 p.m.

Richard is 81 and has lived and worked in Brewster since 1978. He is currently represented by the Cross Rip Gallery in Harwich Port. He graduated from Brown University in 1966 with Bachelor’s degrees in chemistry and philosophy, then paid his way through the University of Pennsylvania law school (1966-69) photographing college graduation ceremonies, anti-Vietnam war demonstrations in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., and the Woodstock music festival.

After moving to New York City in 1970, Richard studied drawing, painting, and sculpture at the Art Students League, the New School, and the Brooklyn Museum School. He exhibited his initial reliefs at the Green Mountain Gallery in SoHo. Since moving to the Cape in 1978, he has studied and/or painted with Harry Holl, Betty Lane, Leslie Jackson, Tony Vevers, Jack Learned, Salvatore Del Deo, Paul Bowen, John Grillo, Joyce Zavorskas, Carol Odell, and many others. Richard’s reliefs are currently on exhibition in the Boston Museum of Science and the Cape Cod Museum of Art.