Art: UPTOWN: Jan. 17, 1964

JOHN ANDERSON—Stone, 48 East 86th. Formerly a logger, this Pratt Institute instructor of sculpture now whittles on his own. Newel posts, finials and bobbins sprout all over his abstract trees or tumble from his table-top cornucopias. These carpenterlike sculptures have a deceptively utilitarian look, like tools and toys for Paul Bunyan, but they are exquisitely appealing. Through Feb. 1.

NORA ORIOLI—D'Arcy, 1091 Madison Ave. at 82nd. Although she is known in her native Italy as a social realist, Nora Orioli seems more a pleasant genre painter, to judge from these picaresque and pastoral scenes that spring from lean, refracted layers of gloomy paint covered with glaze. Through Jan. 25.

EUGENIE BAIZERMAN—Krasner, 1061 Madison Ave. at 80th. Unlike her husband, the late sculptor Saul Baizerman, Eugenie Baizerman was unrecognized during her lifetime; when she died in 1949, not one of her works had been sold. Exhibitions since then reveal a painter who persistently stuck to the pursuit of color. In 35 oils, watercolors and drawings ranging from 1927 to 1949. her swirling brush paints up an explosion of autumn hues infused with light that magically illumines human figures. Through Jan. 25.

IMPRESSIONISTS—Rosenberg, 20 East 79th. A wealth of French impressionist work in various media ranging from an 1860 Boudin to a 1920 Monet. Other familiar names: Renoir, Degas, Cezanne, Cassatt, Fantin-Latour, Toulouse-Lautrec, Pissarro and Van Gogh. Through Feb. 1.

WHITE ON WHITE—Contemporaries, 992 Madison Ave. at 77th. Something old, something new, something borrowed, but nothing blue. Old hands (Nevelson, Albers) and new (Angelo Savelli, Omar Rayo) make the most of a colorless but sometimes surprising marriage by wedding white with white in sculpture, painting and graphics. Through Jan. 25.

FRANK STELLA—Castelli, 4 East 77th. Compared with his black and white pinstripes, Stella's new deep purple progressions down the geometric mean are a burst into song. He names these paintings for friends, although only one of them is a square. For example his dealer, Leo Castelli, is a triangle. Through Jan. 30.

SCULPTURE WITH SOUND—Cordier & Ekstrom, 978 Madison Ave. at 76th. Synesthetic creations by 27 modern artists titillate both eye and ear with a clattering symphony including Chryssa's Boozooki, Bruce Connor's Tick Took Jelly Clock Cosmotron, Allan d'Arcangelo's Metronomes, Richard Stankiewicz' Storm Gong, George Ortman's Heartbeat, Alexander Calder's Three Gongs And Red, Man Ray's Indestructible Object, Robert Rauschenberg's Dry Cell, Jean Tinguely's Radio Drawing. Through Jan. 25.

ALFRED MAURER and MARSDEN HARTLEY—Babcock, 805 Madison Ave. at 68th. Both of these painters were American adventurers who traveled abroad and eventually returned to the U.S. Maurer became a recluse in his father's house and killed himself in 1932; Hartley wrote poetry and wished to be remembered as "the painter from Maine," where he was born and where, in 1943, he died. As these 22 still lifes show, both forged a highly personal style: Maurer a sensuous, solidly constructed cubism; Hartley a rough-hewn primitive expressionism. Through Feb. 15.