UPTOWN

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.

AMERICAN PRINTS IN RUSSIA--American Institute of Graphic Arts, 1059 Third Ave. at 63rd. It wowed them in Alma-Ata. It is still a smash hit in Moscow. Now New Yorkers can see what opened the eyes of the Russians: a near-duplicate show of the prints sent by the U.S. State Department in exchange for a Soviet graphic-arts show, now in Milwaukee. Woodcuts, etchings, lithographs, colorgraphs and intaglios by Sister Mary Corita, Ben Shahn, Leonard Baskin, Fritz Eichenberg, Sidney Goodman, Edmond Casarella and 15 other U.S. printmakers show off a revolution in graphic techniques. Through Jan. 21.

MORTON SCHAMBERG--Zabriskie, 36 East 61st. Schamberg was among the steely shield bearers of modernism in the Armory Show of 1913; five years later, in full battle with academicism and only 37 years old, he died in the great flu epidemic. Through art-nouveau poster painting to the plane geometry of the machine esthetic, Schamberg shared his passion for mechanical things and his studio with Charles Sheeler. For the first time since a memorial exhibition in 1919, New Yorkers can view 20 of his paintings, all on loan. Through Jan. 25.

RAYMOND MINTZ--Rehn, 36 East 61st. Mintz's landscapes abound with bold, nearly abstract forms, symbols of perpetual life and decay, but two figure paintings of excruciating delineation prove he has a realist's eye. Through Jan. 25.

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