Ruth Weisberg Biography
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Ruth Weisberg works primarily in painting, drawing, printmaking and large-scale installations. She is the Dean of Fine Arts at the University of Southern California since 1995. Ruth Weisberg is represented by Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in Los Angeles.
Recent honors include a Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, Hebrew Union College, May, 2001, Fellow, Center for the Humanities, University of Michigan, 2000, College Art Association Distinguished Teaching of Art Award, 1999, University of Southern California Hillel L’Chaim Leadership Award, 1998, Eleanor Tufts Memorial Lecturer, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, April 1997, L.A. Art Core 8th Annual Award 1996, Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome 1995, 1994, and 1992, Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi 1995, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar 1994, Honorary Phi Beta Kappa Epsilon Chapter 1993, A Senior Research Fulbright for Italy in 1992. Ms. Weisberg was President of the College Art Association 1990-92, received the School of Art University of Michigan Distinguished Art Alumni/ AE Award for 1992, The Distinguished Artist of the Year Award, Fresno Art Museum 1990, USC Mortar Board Faculty Teaching Excellence Award 1988, The National Women’s Caucus for Art Mid-Career Achievement Award 1987, and the University of Michigan’s Outstanding Achievement Award for Alumni 1987. USC’s Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award for Creative Work 1986, and the Third Annual Vesta Award in the Visual Arts, given by the Women’s Building, Los Angeles, California, October 1984; also, the commission of a lithograph, in 1979, by the Graphic Arts Council, Los Angeles County Museum. In January 1979, a Weisberg lithograph was presented to Georgia O’Keeffe as part the National Women’s Caucus for Art ceremony honoring her at the White House. Academic year 1969-1970, Ms. Weisberg was awarded a Ford Foundation Grant administered by the Near Eastern Center of the University of California at Los Angeles. Ms. Weisberg has had over 70 solo and two-person exhibitions and installations, including the following:
Solo / Two Person Exhibitions and Major Commissions:
“Love, Sacred and Profane.” Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, California 2003
“The Open Door: Drawings for the New Haggada.” (working title) Hebrew Union College, New York, New York, Spertus Museum, Chicago, Illinois, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California
“The Open Door Haggada.” Ed. Rabbi Sue Levi Elwell, artist Ruth Weisberg, Central Conference of American Rabbis, New York, New York, 2001
“Heightened Realities: The Monotypes of Ruth Weisberg.” Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 2001 (catalogue)
“Family.” City of Los Angeles, Percent for the Arts, and MiniMed Corporation, Northridge, California 2001
"Testament." University Art Gallery, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California 2000 (video)
“Canto V: A Whirlwind of Lovers.” The Huntington Library and Art Collections, Virginia Steele Scott Gallery, San Marino, California 1999 (catalogue)
"Natural Histories." Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, California 1999; previous exhibitions 1983,1985, 1988, 1991, 1993, 1996
“Ruth Weisberg.” Platt Gallery, University of Judaism, Los Angeles, California 1997 (catalogue)
“Ruth Weisberg.” Fullerton College, Fullerton, CA 1998
“Mysteries.” Doolin Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 1997
“A Continuing Tradition.” The Judson Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1997
“Sisters and Brothers.” Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California 1996; Gross Gallery, University of Arizona 1995; Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California 1994 (catalogue)
Gwenda Jay Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 1991, 1992, 1995
Ruth Weisberg and Patti Wickman, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois 1995
“Emulation.” Temple University, Rome, Italy 1994
Alice Simsar Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1974, 1977, 1988, 1992
“Passing Over.” Sculptural Installation for “Passover and Passion,” Laband
Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California 1991
“The Scroll.” Spertus Museum, Chicago, Illinois 1992; Skirball Museum, Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles, California 1989; Hebrew Union College, New York, New York 1987-1988 (catalogue)
“Ruth Weisberg: The Arts and the Prophetic Imagination.” Bethel College, North Newton, Kansas 1991
“Realms of Desire: A Print Retrospective.” Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California 1990 (catalogue)
Associated American Artists, New York, New York 1987, 1990
Survey Exhibition 1966-1988, Slusser Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California 1988; College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio; Hope College, Holland, Michigan (catalogue)
Sierra Nevada Museum of Arts, Reno, Nevada 1987
“A Circle of Life,” Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; Hewlett Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1986 (catalogue)
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 1986
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1985
Philadelphia Print Club, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1985
University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia 1985
Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley, California 1981
M. Shore and Sons, Santa Barbara, California 1981
University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska 1981
Survey Exhibition, 1971-1979, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, California 1979 (catalogue)
Peppers Art Gallery, University of Redlands, Redlands, California 1980
The Hunter Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York 1978
Space Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1978
Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, California 1978
University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, Texas 1978
Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, Georgia 1978
El Camino College, Los Angeles, California 1977
Palos Verdes Art Gallery, Palos Verdes, California 1976
Union Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 1976
Norwegian Graphic Arts Association, Oslo, Norway 1976
A.D.I. Gallery, San Francisco, California 1976
Triad Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1974
University of California, Santa Barbara, California 1974
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 1972
Municipal Art Gallery, Oslo, Norway 1972
Seaberg-Isthmus Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 1972
Richard Nash Gallery, Seattle, Washington 1971, 1972, 1974
Pollack Gallery, Toronto, Canada 1969, 1971
Group exhibitions:
“Eighteen Years of Exhibition: 1985-2002." University of Judaism, Los Angeles, California 2002
“The Perception of Appearance: A Decade of Contemporary American Figure Drawing.” Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington 2002
“Images of Women.” Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, California, 2002
“From Eve to Huldah: Contemporary Artists Depict Women of the Bible.” Center for Visual Arts and Culture, Stamford, Connecticut, 2002; Hebrew Union College, New York, New York, 2002
“Women’s National Art Invitational.” Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 2002
“Evidence of Love: Romance, Desire, and Fantasy.” Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, California, 2001
“Like a Prayer: A Jewish and Christian Presence in Contemporary Art.” Tryon Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, North Carolina 2001 (catalogue)
“Representing LA: Pictorial Currents in Contemporary Southern California Art.” Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington 2000-2001; Laguna Museum, Laguna Beach, California 2002 (catalogue)
"The Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii: Ancient Ritual, Modern Muse." Museum of Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 2000 (catalogue)
"Expanded Boundaries: the Matrix and the Monoprint." The Channing Peake Gallery, Santa Barbara, California 2000
"Revealing and Concealing: Portraits and Cultural Identity." Skirball Cultural Center Museum, Los Angeles, California 2000 (catalogue)
"12 Divas." Molly Barnes Gallery, Santa Monica, California 2000
"Lithographic Washes: Tusche and Toner." 28th Annual Southern Graphics Council Conference, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida 2000 (catalogue)
"Contemporary Narratives in American Prints." Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, Connecticut 1999-2000
"Women of the Book." Gotthelf Art Gallery, San Diego, California 2001; Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri 2000; Brattleboro Museum of Art, Brattleboro, Vermont 2000; Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida 2000; University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona 1999; Janice Charach Epstein Museum/Gallery, West Bloomfield, Michigan 1999; University of Pennsylvania Special Collections Library, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1999; Sharadin Art Gallery, Kutztown University, Kutztown, Pennsylvania 1999; Finegood Art Gallery, West Hills, California 1997-1998 (catalogue)
"Figure This." Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, California 1999
“Private Visions: Works on Paper.” David Findlay Jr. Contemporary, New York, New York 1999
“Surviving Modernism: the Narrative Figure.” Golub, Lazzari, Pearlstein, Weisberg, Gwenda Jay/Addington Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 1999
“On Your Mark: When Drawing Becomes Painting.” Golden West College Fine Arts Gallery, Huntington Beach, California 1999 (catalogue)
15th National Biennial Exhibition, Los Angeles Printmaking Society, Loyola Marymount University, Laband Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1999 (catalogue)
“Presenze Femminili: Una Visione Internazionale.” Temple University Art Gallery, Rome, Italy 1998; Jewitt Art Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts 1999; Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California 1999, Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington 2000 (catalogue)
“Contempo Italianate.” Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles California 1998 (catalogue)
“Contents and Contexts: Lithography after 200 years.” Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii 1998 (catalogue)
“Allegorical Re/Visions.” Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, California 1997-1998 (catalogue)
“Che Guevara: Icon, Myth and Message.” Fowler Museum UCLA, Los Angeles, California 1997 (catalogue)
“Emulations: quotations from the source.” El Camino College Art Gallery, Torrance, California 1997
“Reconfigured I and II.” Santa Monica Community College, Santa Monica, California 1997
“Monotypes: An Intimate Impression.” Gwenda Jay Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 1997
Exclusively Etchings, Lankershim Arts Center Gallery, North Hollywood, California 1997
“Beyond the Shadow.” Oakland Museum, Oakland, California 1997
“Singular Impressions: The Monotype in America.” National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian, Washington, D.C. 1997 (catalogue)
“New Dialogues: Women Printmakers Invitational.” Trustman Art Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, MA and Wellesley College, MA 1997
“Changing Media: Books and Prints.” Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California 1997
“International Print Exhibition.” Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon 1997
“Re: Masters, New Images form Old Sources.” Rancho Santiago College Art Gallery, Santa Ana, California 1996
“Blessings and Beginnings.” Skirball Cultural Center and Museum, Los Angeles, California 1996
“Camp d’Osservazione.” Palazzo Ducale, Gubbio, Italy 1996
“Crosses and Parallels.” Art Gallery, Mount San Antonio College, Walnut, California 1995
“In Their Own Image.” Art Institute of Southern California, Laguna Beach, California 1995
“Contemporary Prints National Invitational.” Beasley Art Museum, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona 1995
“Emulations: Quotations from the Source.” Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, California 1995
“U.S.A. Within Limits.” Documenta, Galeria de Arte, Sao Paolo, Brazil 1995
“Tandem Press: Five Years of Collaboration and Experimentation.” The Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin (catalogue); Butler Institute of Art, Youngstown, Ohio; Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
“One in Eight." Santa Monica College Art Gallery, Santa Monica, California 1994 (catalogue)
“Towards a Greater Realm.” part of a Southern California Collaborative Exposition, Dan Beckerman Gallery, Redlands, California 1994
“Forms of Attention.” M.Y.T.H. at the Brewery, Los Angeles, California 1993
“A Reinvention of Classicism.” Gwenda Jay Gallery, Chicago, Illinois; Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, Illinois 1993
“Utopian Dialogue.” Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, California 1993 (catalogue)
“Sacred Spaces.” Thomas Center Gallery, Gainesville, Florida 1993 (catalogue)
“L.A. Stories.” Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, California 1993
“SMARTS c/o SMMOA.” Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California 1992
“Presswork: The Art of Women Printmakers.” Traveling exhibition to nine locations including The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; University Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin; The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio; Federal Reserve Band Fine Arts Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri; Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas; Portsmouth Museums, Portsmouth Community Art Center, Portsmouth, Virginia; Spiva Art Center, Joplin, Missouri 1991-1994 (Catalogue)
“500 Years Since Columbus.” Triton Museum, Santa Clara, California 1992 (catalogue)
“Her Story: Narrative Art by Contemporary California Artists.” Oakland Museum, Oakland, California 1991 (catalogue)
“American Women Artists: The 20th Century.” Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee 1989 (catalogue)
“New Editions.” Associated American Artists, New York 1989
“The Feminine.” Sherry French Gallery, New York 1988
Recent Figurative Prints, Associated American Artists, New York 1987 (catalogue)
“10 & 5 from California.” Thomas Center Gallery, Gainesville, Florida; St. Louis Gallery of Art, St. Louis, Missouri 1987
“Movietone Muse.” One Penn Plaza, New York, 1987
“The Years of Passage 1969-1976.” Fresno Arts Center and Museum, Fresno, California 1987
"Modern American Printmaking." Traveling Exhibition opening in Hanover traveling to seven locations in West Germany and Madrid, Spain 1985-1986 (catalogue)
American Women in Art, U.N. Conference on Women, Nairobi, Kenya 1985 (catalogue)
Spectrum Los Angeles, Hartje Gallery, Berlin and Frankfurt, West Germany 1985 (catalogue)
“Self-Portraits.” Gallery in the Plaza, Security Pacific Bank, Los Angeles, California 1985 (catalogue)
“Olympiad: Summer ‘84 Exhibition.” Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1985; Art, Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes, California 1984 (catalogue)
"A Broad Spectrum: Contemporary Los Angeles Painters and Sculptors ‘84." The Design Center, Los Angeles, California 1984 (catalogue)
“Affirmation of Life.” Kenkelebe House, New York, New York (curated by Alvin Loving) 1984
“The Human Figure.” The Edge Gallery, Fullerton, California 1984
National Women’s Art Exhibition, Louisiana World Exposition, New Orleans, Los Angeles 1984
W.C.A. National Exhibition, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 1983
“At Home.” Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California 1983
National Exhibition of Prints and Photographs by Women, Penn’s
Landing Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1983 (catalogue)
Atelier Nord International Exhibition, Gallery F15, Jeloya, Oslo and Tromso Art Association, Tromso, Norway 1982
“Unique Impressions: The Monotype and Beyond.” Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California 1982 (catalogue)
“Ten New York Women Artists.” Traveling Exhibition, Tubingen, Heidelberg, Berlin, Stuttgart, Germany 1981
“West Coastal Currents, a California-New York Exhibition.” Center for the Arts, Corpus Christi State University (exhibition traveled in Texas) 1982-83 (catalogue)
“Lithography Then and Now.” University Art Museum, University of New Mexico 1981
Print Portfolio Exhibition, Phoenix Gallery, New York 1981
“Mask as Metaphor.” Craft and Folk Art Museum, Santa Monica, California; Security Pacific, Los Angeles, California 1980
“The Light is Different in California.” Pratt Graphic Center, New York (circulated by Western Association of Art Museums) 1978-1980
“Women in Art Today.” College of Wooster, Ohio 1980
“Multiples ‘80.” Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana 1980
The Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 1979
“New Points of View.” originated at the E.B. Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California (circulated by Western Association of Art Museums) 1978-1980 (catalogue)
“Thanatopsis: Meditation of Death.” Space Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1978
“Twentieth Century Masters of Lithography.” Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois 1978
“Deja Vu: Masterpieces Revisited.” Downey Museum of Art, Downey, California 1978 (catalogue)
International Exchange Exhibition of Contemporary Prints, National Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea 1978
“Contemporary Issues: by Women on Paper, A National Invitational.” Women’s Building, Los Angeles; National Women’s Year Conference, Houston, Texas, 1977
“Artist’s Proof: The Multiple Image.” The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, California 1976
“National Bicentennial Traveling Exhibition.” inaugurated at San Diego, California 1976
“West Coast Printmaking.” Malspina Printmakers Society, Vancouver, B.C., Canada 1975
“Eight Artists-Teachers.” Contemporary Graphics Center, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California 1975
“Four California Printmakers.” under the auspices of the American Embassy, Ankara, Ismir, and Istanbul, Turkey 1975
Municipal Gallery, Moss, Norway 1975
International Biennale of Graphic Art, Segovia, Spain 1974
First and Second International Biennales of Graphic Art, Fredrikstad, Norway 1974
American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, New York 1969
“Innovation in Intaglio.” Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan 1969
First and Third International Miniature Print Exhibitions, Pratt Graphic Center, New York 1966, 1968
Major reviews, commentary and articles on Ruth Weisberg include:
Ms. Weisberg has written over 55 articles, reviews and catalogue essays. Interviews of Ruth Weisberg are included in both the “Canto V: A Whirlwind of Lovers” and “Heightened Realities: The Monotypes of Ruth Weisberg” catalogues by Edward Nygren and Debra Byrne, respectively. The University of Judaism 1997 catalogue contains an essay by Peter Frank. A Mid-life Catalogue Raisonne of Ruth Weisberg’s Prints published by the Fresno Art Museum includes a conversation with the artist by Robert Barrett, essay by Mac McCloud. Weisberg and her work are featured on the cover of Exposures: Women and Their Art by Betty Ann Brown and Arlene Raven, photographs by Kenna Love, New Sage Press, Pasadena, California 1989. Other major catalogues of Ms. Weisberg’s work have been published in conjunction with The Survey Exhibition 1968-1988, with essays by Marion Jackson and Thalia Gouma-Peterson; “The Scroll,” essays by Lawrence Hoffman and Nancy Berman; “A Circle of Life” Exhibition, introduction by Anne Sutherland Harris and essay by Selma Holo, 1986 the Magnes Museum Exhibition, essay by Ruth Elis, 1981, and the Barnsdall exhibition, introduced by June Wayne, essay by Gerard Haggerty. 1979.
The Open Door: A Passover Haggadah, ed. Sue Levi Elwell, Central Conference of American Rabbis, New York, 2002
Complex Identities: Jewish Consciousness and Modern Art, ed. Matthew Baigell and Molly Heyd.
Jewish–American Artists and the Holocaust, by Matthew Baigell, Rutgers University Press, 2001
State of the Arts, by Barbara Isenberg, Harper Collins, pp. 279-284, 2000
"From Dante with Love" by Collette Chattopadhyay, nextmonet.com, January 2000
"Santa Monica Artist Opens Dialogue with the Past" by Marlena Donahue, Our Times, Los Angeles Times, December 1999
"A 'Weisberg' Whirls Through Space, Time in San Marino" by Inga Kiderra, USC Chronicle, December 1999
"Towering 'Inferno'" by Michael Aushenker, The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, December 1999
"Ruth Weisberg, Anne and Patrick Poirier" by Peter Frank, LA Weekly, 1999
"A Commission to Really Lust After" by Suzanne Muchnic, Los Angeles Times, November 1999
"Surviving Modernism: The Narrative Figure: Philip Pearlstein, Ruth Weisberg, Leon Golub, Margaret Lazzari" by G. Jurek Polanski Artscope.net, July 1999
A “Natural History” by Naomi Pfefferman. The Jewish Journal, Pp. 19, 41 April 2, 1999
“Karen Finley, Ruth Weisberg,” by Peter Frank, LA Weekly, March 19-25, 1999.
“Man and Nature” by Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times, February 1999.
“An Artist Who Shares Her Gifts,” by Ed Newton, USC Chronicle, Feb. 22, 1999, p.12
“Show Offers Modern Perspective into Italy’s Art History Past,” by William Wilson, Los Angeles Times, Nov 13, 1998.
Jewish American Artists and the Holocaust, by Matthew Baigell, Rutgers University Press, 1997
“Weisberg Show Looks Back at an Artist Ahead of Her Time” by William Wilson, Los Angeles Times, Apr. 28, 1997, F4
“Prints in ‘Changing Media’ Take on Introspective Turn” by William Wilson, Los Angeles Times, Feb. 1997
“Changing Media” by Judith Hoffberg, Art Scene, March 1997
“New Beginnings,” The Skirball Museum Collections and Inaugural Exhibition, edited by Gace Cohen Grossman, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, 1996,
“A Conversation with Ruth Weisberg, Artist” by Isabel Anderson, Artweek, San Jose, June 1996
“For Some Artists, A Return to the Sources Marks Spiritual Rebirth” by Gabriel Meyer, National Catholic Register, April 28, 1996
“Ruth Weisberg, Joyce Treiman” by Peter Frank, L.A. Weekly, April 5-April 11, 1996, p. 132
“Four + Four More” by Peter Frank, Prism, Los Angeles, California and Seoul, Korea, Volume 1, Number 2, June 1995, p. 2-33
“Ruth Weisberg” by Mirella Bentivoglio, Terzo Occhio, Bologna, Italy, Fall 1994
“Ruth Weisberg” by Ludovico Pratesi, La Repubblica, Rome, Italy, June 9, 1994
“Gate Keepers” by Betty Brown, Visions Art Quarterly, Los Angeles, California, Fall 1994
“Figuratively Speaking Weisberg’s Series Shows Painting, Italian Style” by Nancy Kapitanoff, Calendar Los Angeles Times, June 6, 1993
“Ruth Weisberg; Ilene Segalove - Art Picks of the Week” by Peter Frank, L.A. Weekly, p. 110, July 2-8, 1993
“Ruth Weisberg” by Nancy Kay Turner, Art Scene, pp. 10, 11 June 1993
“Ruth Weisberg: Printmaking in a Post Modern Context” by Richard Channin, Artweek, p. 21, Nov. 5, 1992
“Ruth Weisberg: Prints; Mid-Life, Catalogue Raisonne, 1961-1990” by Judith Hoffberg and June Wayne, Tamarind Papers, Volume 14, 1991-92, p. 83-84
“Major Exhibits Bring Ruth Weisberg Home” by Natalie Van Straaten, Ravenswood/ Albany Park Star, Chicago, Illinois Jan. 28, 1992
“A Search for Self” by Alan G. Artner, Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois Feb. 13, 1992
“Graven Image” by Arlene Raven, Art Papers, Atlanta, Georgia, Volume 15,
Number 6 November/ December 1991
“Weisberg’s Family Album” by Susan Geer, Los Angeles Times, March 1, 1991
“Loyola Gallery Puts Its Faith In Religious Exhibit” by Lisbet Nilson,
Calendar Los Angeles Times, pp. 94, 99 March 24, 1991
“Art Pick of the Week” by Peter Frank, L.A. Weekly, p. 108 April 4, 1991
“Stories History Didn’t Tell Us” by Lydia Matthews, Artweek, p. cover, 15-17 February 14, 1991
“A Painter’s Life” by Yehuda Lev, The Jewish Journal, p. 25 April 12-18 1991
“The Art of Narrative” by Abby Wasserman, The Museum of California, The Oakland Museum, Oakland, California, Volume 15, Number 1, p. 24-25 Winter 1999
“Ruth Weisberg: Everything that Falls has Wings” by Polly Victor, High Performance, Santa Monica, California, p. 53
“Ruth Weisberg: Keeper of the Flame” by Joe Levine Weiss, To Life, Los Angeles, California, Volume 1, Issue 4 1990
“Transcending the Trends” by David Hale Spotlight, The Fresno Bee, Fresno, California, p. cover, 10-12 March 8, 1990
“A Particular Transcendence” by Polly Victor, Artweek, San Jose, California, p, 14 Aug. 2, 1990
“The New West Coast Art Academia” by Charlotte Moser, Artweek, San Jose, California, pp. 19-20 Mar. 8, 1999
“College Art Association Turns to Social Issues” Los Angeles Times, p. 7 Feb. 14, 1990
“Yesterday and Tomorrow: California Women Artists” edited by Sylvia Moore,
Midmarch Arts Press, p. 119, 122, 123, reproduction p. 143, 1989
“Ruth Weisberg” by Mirella Bentivoglio, Terzo Occhio, Bologna, Italy, Sept. 1994
“Ruth Weisberg” by Marge Bulmer, Art Gallery International, Los Angeles, 1989
“The Stuff of Life” by Judith Christensen, Artweek, Oakland, California, Dec. 3, 1988
“ The Literal Universe of Ruth Weisberg” by Cathy Curtis, Los Angeles Times, Dec. 23, 1988
“Ruth Weisberg” by Patricia Matthews, New Art Examiner December 1988
“The Ties of Time, Place and Memory” by Susan Ludmer-Gliebe, Ann Arbor News, Mar. 13, 1988
“Art” by Cathy Curtis, Los Angeles Times, Orange County
“Passages in Cyclical Time: Ruth Weisberg’s Scroll” by Thalia Gouma-Peterson, Arts Magazine, New York, February 1988
“Ruth Weisberg” by Arlene Raven, New Art Examiner, Chicago February 1988
“The Scroll” Talk of the Town, The New Yorker, Nov. 23, 1987
“Ruth Weisberg at U.S.C.” by Peter Clothier, Art in America, April 1986
“The Universal and the Particular” by Betty Ann Brown, Artweek, Los Angeles, Feb. 22, 1986
“Two Exhibitions that Show and Tell” by Suzanne Muchnic, Los Angeles Times, Feb. 16, 1986
“Ruth Weisberg: Transcendence of Time Through Persistence of Imagery” by
Gilah Yelin Hirsch, Women’s Art Journal, Knoxville, Tennessee Fall 1985/Winter 1986
“The Art Galleries” by Suzanne Muchnic, Los Angeles Times, Oct. 4, 1985
“Cradled in Legacy of the Holocaust” by Barbara Isenberg, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Oct. 5, 1985
“Pick of the Week” by Peter Clothier, L.A. Weekly, Los Angeles, Sept. 13- 19, 1985
“Autobiographical Journey” by Ora Lerman, Arts Magazine, New York, May 1985
“On Galleries” by Victoria Donahue, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Mar.16, 1985
“Art and Life” by Roy Proctor, Richmond News Leader, Richmond, Virginia, Feb. 24, 1985
“Prints, Drawings at Marsh Gallery” by Robert Merritt, Richmond Times
Dispatch, Richmond, Virginia, Feb. 22, 1985
“Ruth Weisberg” by Melinda Wortz, Art News, New York, January 1984
“Ruth Weisberg” by Gilah Hirsch, Images and Issues, Los Angeles January/ February 1984
“Ruth Weisberg” by Betty Brown, Arts, New Yorker, September 1983
“Ruth Weisberg: Dream and Fantasy” by Mac McCloud, Artweek, Oakland, California, Oct. 8, 1983
“Movies as Modern Muse” by Gerard Haggerty, LAICA Journal, Los Angeles, Summer 1982
“Lithography Then and Now” by Joseph Traugott, Artweek, Oakland, California, Dec. 26, 1981
“Past and Presence, Response to Tradition” by Susan Boettger, Artweek, Oakland, California, Feb. 28, 1981
“Venice, California,” by Gordon J. Hazlett, Art News, New York, January 1980
“Collected Histories,” by Maudette Ball, Artweek, Oakland, California, Nov. 27,1979
“Artists: Layers of Real, Unreal” by Suzanne Muchnic, Los Angeles Times, Nov. 8, 1979
Portraiture in Print, by Constance Harris, Crown Publishers, New York, 1978
“Two Paths for Techniques” by Louise Lewis, Artweek, Oakland, California, July 29, 1978
“New and Old Blend,” By Jean Paul Slusser, Ann Arbor News, Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 1977
“Prints by Artist-Teachers,” by Ruth Askey, Artweek, Oakland, California, Jun.14, 1975
Select museum and universities collections:
The Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museum,
San Francisco, California
American Museum of Art, Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.
Arizona State University Museum, Tempe, Arizona
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Grunwald Foundation for the Graphic Arts, University of California,
Los Angeles, California
Bibliotheque Nationale of France, Paris, France
College Art Association, New York, New York
The Dance Collection, Lincoln Center, New York, New York
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan
Elvejhen Museum, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California
The Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan
Hebrew Union College, New York, New York
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Texas
Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Instituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome, Italy
The Jewish Museum of New York, New York, New York
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee
Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, Illinois
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts
The National Gallery, Washington, D.C.
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
The New York Public Library, New York
The Norwegian National Museum, Oslo, Norway
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
The Oakland Museum, Oakland, California
The Oslo Municipal Museum, Norway
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
The Rare Book Libraries of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California
The Skirball Cultural Center and Museum, Los Angeles, California
The Spertus Museum, Chicago, Illinois
The Tronheim Municipal Museum, Norway
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan
University of Nebraska, Omaha, Nebraska
University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
University of St. Thomas, Manila, Philippines
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
University of Texas, Austin, Texas
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
The William Andrew Clark Library, University of California, Los Angeles
Zimmerli Museum of Art, Rutgers State University of New Jersey
Performance:
“Palindrome” Pink House Performance Series, Los Angeles, California February 2, 1991
“Mending” Pink House Performance Series, Los Angeles, California October 27, 1990
“Mirror” Pink House Performance Series, Los Angeles, California January 20, 1990
“Everything that Falls Has Wings” Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California June 15, 1990
“Journey II” Pink House Performance Series, Los Angeles, California, May 6, 1989
“Journey I” Pink House Performance Series, Los Angeles, California, April 8, 1989
“Entering the Scroll” Performance with Meredith Stone, Hebrew Union College, Skirball Museum, Los Angeles, California May 10-11, 1989
“Creation-Revelation-Redemption” for “Renewal: Contemporary Religion and Contemporary Art” College Art Association annual meeting February, 1986, New York. Concept, scripts and props by Ruth Weisberg collaborators-Meredith Stone and Rabbi Laura Geller
“Women Artist in History” Morrison Auditorium, Academy of Sciences, San Francisco and Barnsdall Auditorium, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Barnsdall Park February 1981 and May 1981. Concept coordination, narration, role of Sofinisba Aguissola by Ruth Weisberg D.B.C. Weekend Workshop directed by Rachel Rosenthal. Workshop in set design, lighting, costume design, ensemble acting, intermix studio, Los Angeles 1980
“The Gift” multi-media performance, Watt Hall, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California. Concept, costume and dance by Ruth Weisberg 1975
Once Group, numerous performances, music and performance group Ann Arbor, Michigan 1967-1969. Principals- Gordon Mumma, Robert Ashley, Ann and Joe Wehrer, Mary Ashley, and George Manupelli
Related Professional Experience
Ms. Weisberg previously served as Chair of the Studio Arts Department 1986-87 at the University of Southern California as well as Acting Associate Dean for the School of Architecture and Fine Arts for two years. She received her Bachelor and Masters degrees from the University of Michigan, as well as a Laurea in Painting and Printmaking from the Academia di Belle Arti, Perugia, Italy. After a year at the S.W. Hayter’s Atelier 17 in Paris, she taught at Eastern Michigan University.
Besides having been President of the College Art Association, Ms. Weisberg was the co-chair of the Host Committee for the CAA Conference in Los Angeles in 1999 and was co-chair of studio sessions for the CAA 1989 meetings in San Francisco. Ms. Weisberg was formerly Vice-President of the Graphics Art Council, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She founded the Southern California Chapter of Women’s Caucus for Art in 1976. She is a past President of the Los Angeles Printmaking Society.
Ruth Weisberg has written for publications including Art Connoisseur, Artweek, Women's Studies Quarterly, New York, New Art Examiner, Chicago, and the Tamarind Papers, Albuquerque, New Mexico as well as a chapter for Expanding Circles: Women, Arts and Community, 1997 ed. Betty Ann Brown.
Weisberg has lectured, juried and curated exhibitions at the invitation of institutions, including:
Cornell University, School of Architecture, Planning and Art, 2002
Temple Bethel, San Pedro, California (Scholar-in-Residence), 2002
Pratt Institute (Graduate Student Critique), 2002
Southern Graphics Council Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana (presentation), 2002
Skirball Cultural Center (lecture with Leonard Nimoy), 2002
San Francisco State University (visiting artist), 2001
Tryon Art Center (panel), Charlotte, North Carolina, 2001
Skirball Museum and Cultural Center (two panels), Los Angeles, California, 2000
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Center for the Humanities (four lectures and panels), Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2000
Toledo Art Museum (lecture), Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2000
The Brandeis-Bardin Institute, Brandeis, California, 2000
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California, 2000
Finegood Art Gallery, West Hills, California, 2000
National Art Education Institute
Institute for Contemporary Midrash Convocation, Hebrew Union College, New York, New York (panel moderator) 1999
Art Department Review Committee, Art Department, Wayne State University, Detroit Michigan 1999
Art Department Review Committee, Art Department, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont California 1998
Art Department Review Committee, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts 1998
Southern Graphics Council (panel chair) Ohio University Athens, Ohio, 1998
Fullerton College, Fullerton, California (Artist-in –Residence) 1998
Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Barnsdall Park, 1997
Oakland Museum, Oakland, California 1997
Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California 1997
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 1997
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian, Washington, D.C. 1997
College Art Association (panel co-chair) New York, New York, 1997
Mid-America Print Council Conference, Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, Indiana and University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky (Presenter) 1996
Skirball Museum and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California 1996
Clemson University, Clemson South Carolina 1996
Artist Residency University of Arizona and the National Foundation for Jewish Culture, Tucson, Arizona 1995
Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto Japan 1995
Southern Graphics Council Conference, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee (Presenter) 1995
College Art Association meetings, San Antonio, Texas (Discussant) 1995
“Towards a Greater Realm,” University of Judaism, Los Angeles, California (Panelist) 1994
Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California 1994
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 1994
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, 1994
Fourth International Seminar on Jewish Art, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel (Panelist) 1994
American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy 1992, 1994
College Art Association, New York, New York (Panel Chair) 1994
Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum (Exhibition Curation) 1994
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Milwaukee and Parkside 1993
Southern Graphics Council Conference, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee (Panel Chair and Commissioned Print) 1992
College Art Association, Chicago, Illinois (Panel Member) 1992
Studio Art Center International, Florence, Italy 1992
Spertus Museum, Chicago, Illinois 1992
Commencement Address, California State University, Long Beach 1991
Keynote Address, California Art Education Association, Fresno, California 1991
Oakland Museum, Oakland, California 1991
Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California 1991, 1985
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 1991
University of Illinois, Chicago Circle, Chicago, Illinois 1991
Bethel College, North Newton, Kansas 1991
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California 1990
Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California 1990
California State University, Fullerton, California 1990
Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin 1989
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 1989, 1993
College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio 1979, 1988
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California 1988
Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles, California 1989
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 1987, 1988, 1992
University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 1988
Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1987
Queens College, New York, New York 1987
City College of New York 1987
University of Iowa, Iowa City 1978, 1987
University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota 1987
Fresno Arts Center and Museum, Fresno, California 1987
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1986, 1987
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 1986, 1992
Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 1986
College Art Association, New York, New York 1986 (Panel Moderator)
Cooper Union, New York, New York 1985
University of California, Santa Cruz, California 1985
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia 1985
School of Visual Arts, New York, New York 1985
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 1985
Loyola-Marymount University, Los Angeles, California 1985
Weber State University, Ogden, Utah 1985
The American Assembly, Columbia University, Harriman, New York 1984
Docents Council and Graphics Art Council, LACMA 1984
Art Bank Jury and N.E.S. Park Committee for Santa Monica Arts Commission, Santa Monica, California 1984, 1985
College Art Association Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Panel Member) 1983
Arizona State University, Tempe. Arizona 1976-1982
College Art Association Conference (Panel Member) 1981
Tamarind Institute, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 1981
Women’s Caucus for Art Meetings, San Francisco, California (Panel Member) 1981
University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska
Center for Visual Arts, Anchorage, Arkansas
University of Redlands, Redlands, California 1980
University of California, Los Angeles, California
California State University, Los Angeles, California
California State University, Long Beach, California
California State University, Northridge, California
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
National Women’s Studies Association, Lawrence, Kansas (Panelist) 1979
University of California, Davis, California
University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas
California State University, Sacramento, California
Skirball Museum, Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles, California
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, California
Contemporary Graphic Center, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
Pratt Graphic Center, New York
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine
Occidental College, Los Angeles, California
School of Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts
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