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MARK TOBEY
Paintings, Drawings, Original Graphic Works May 16 - June 28, 2003 Opening reception May 16, 7:00 - 9:30 p.m. ONLINE PORTFOLIO Works by one of the most pivotal and significant 20th century American painters, Mark Tobey will be featured in an exhibition at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts from May 16 to June 28. Although generally categorized with New York Abstract Expressionism, Mark Tobey stands uniquely apart from, and is seen as a precursor to, this movement. His works stem from a highly personal and spiritual stream of expression, which greatly impacted Abstract Expressionism. Tobey (1890-1976), who converted to the Bahá'i faith, was a master of combining both Eastern and Western sensibilities in his work. Already fascinated with eastern philosophy, Tobey traveled to the Far East in 1934 and spent a month in a Zen monastery in Kyoto, Japan, where he studied calligraphy and painting, wrote poetry, and meditated. |
| Back from his travels around 1935, Tobey developed his unique "white writing" style, inspired by his calligraphic studies in the East, which anticipated Jackson Pollack's "all-over" paintings. For Tobey, the calligraphic line was not used to create boundaries but to establish paths of meditation and introspection. In the exhibition, Tobey's unique paintings and graphic works illustrate this notion as their scale forces the viewer to intimately engage these works. This Mark Tobey exhibition at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts features works from Burkhardt's estate. Hans Burkhardt, the Swiss-born Los Angeles painter who was a close friend and supporter of Tobey's, established a formidable collection of Tobey's works that has been the subject of several museum exhibitions. Today, Mark Tobey continues to command international attention. While his works first came to international prominence at the Venice Biennials of 1948, 1956 and 1958, Tobey's work has continued to be surveyed in major retrospective exhibitions by such major museums as Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris (Palais du Louvre); Museum of Modern Art, New York; Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco; National Gallery, Washington, D.C.; Whitney Museum, New York, and most recently at Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany, and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, Spain. |
| RUTH WEISBERG "Love, Sacred and Profane" March 7 - April 30, 2003 Opening Reception Friday, March 7, 7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 1, 7:30pm: Premier screening of the new documentary, "Ruth Weisberg: On the Journey"; reservations are required. ONLINE EXHIBITION Love, Sacred and Profane serves as the subject and title of an exhibition of paintings, drawings and monotypes by Los Angeles-based artist Ruth Weisberg at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts opening Friday, March 7, 2003. |
| In this exhibition entitled Ruth Weisberg: Love, Sacred and Profane, the artist extends her explorations to the convergence of art history and personal or collective history through layered images which express both time and memory. The exhibition derives its title from Titian’s 16th Century masterpiece, Amor, Sacro e Profano. In the centerpiece of the exhibition, Weisberg echoes Titian’s painting, but disrupts it’s Italian landscape by inserting a large scale modern-day couple passionately embraced in dance. Weisberg says that in creating these dancers “...I also became fascinated with the history of the Tango, which like Jazz arose out of a culture of exile. Tango is the embodiment for us of attraction and passionate engagement... Overall I hope for a collision of worlds; an encounter between a Renaissance paradise and dancers in the modern world in which a core of mystery and longing persists.” The exhibition will also include several drawings from Canto V: A Whirlwind of Lovers, a series of works especially created for The Huntington Library’s recent exhibition, in which Weisberg was the first contemporary painter ever to be commissioned for a solo exhibition at that institution. Invited to create an exhibition inspired by a work in the Huntington’s collection, Weisberg selected William Blake’s engravings for Dante’s Inferno, in which condemned lovers are endlessly buffeted in a whirlwind; close but never able to touch. In conjunction with this exhibition, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts will host the premier screening of the new documentary - "Ruth Weisberg: On the Journey" - on April 1, at 7:30 p.m. Admission to this evening event will require reservations for this program co-hosted by the Casden Institute and the School of Fine Arts, University of Southern California. Ruth Weisberg’s work has been exhibited and represented in national as well as international museum collections such as The Whitney Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Gallery, Washington, DC; Biblioteca Nationale of France, Paris; and Instituto Nationale per la Grafica, Rome, Italy. Weisberg is currently Dean of Fine Arts at the University of Southern California. |
| December-February: “Contemporary and Modern Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture” by Pierre Alechinsky, John Baldessari, Max Beckmann, Hans Burkhardt, Willem de Kooning, Max Ernst, Oskar Fischinger, Arshile Gorky, Patrick Graham, David Hockney, Kathe Kollwitz, Roy Lichtenstein, Man Ray, Henri Matisse, Roberto Matta, Joan Miro, Henry Moore, Pablo Picasso, Robert Rauschenberg, Diego Rivera, Ed Ruscha, Mark Tobey, Andy Warhol, Ruth Weisberg, Jerome Witkin, Francisco Zuñiga, and others. |
 Patrick Graham, Dead Swan/Captain's Hill, 1998-9, Oil and Mixed Media on Canvas (diptych), 72 x 132 inches each |
PATRICK GRAHAM |
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Graham has been credited by art historians with changing the face of Irish painting, bringing it into the 20th century, and has been recognized by Ireland as a "living national treasure" through election to it's Aosdana Society. Art critic Donald Kuspit has declared: "Patrick Graham's paintings are masterpieces...on a grand physical, emotional and intellectual scale...they are among the most complicated, salient reflections on modern existence that have been made in the last decade" . . . And critic Peter Frank has observed: "In Graham, Ireland finally has a painter-draughtsman to match its writers." Graham's psychologically-charged work explores journeys into revelation and transcendence. His powerful expressionist paintings evoke the near-mystical qualities of Irish earth and water; spatial and spiritual passages. |
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Graham's painterly images commonly contain symbolic forms and scripted phrases that resonate like fragments of traditional song and lyrical poetry which spring from a unique historical consciousness, exploring both personal and Irish history, repression, paganism, religion, and sexuality. Graham's works depict the artist's reflections on the power of the sublime found in paintings by old masters. He often, for example, speaks of his debt to Della Francesca, among others. In his new work, Graham's expressive self-portraits extend the continuum of major works on the subject evoking Rembrandt to Egon Schiele. In these new works, Graham's powerful expressions of tenderness and vulnerability are implicit in his "Odalisque" series, which echoes Ingres' most famous work. In this current exhibition, "Patrick Graham: Looking Back to Now," the universality of Graham's works are underscored and prove prescient, as the exhibition includes numbers of works from the late 1990s titled "Somewhere Jerusalem," in which Graham evokes his own and humankind's yearning for homecoming. While deeply rooted in personal and Irish experience, Graham's works have met with tremendous response, and has strongly impacted other artists in previous exhibitions in the U.S., particularly in Los Angeles, where his works were last exhibited in 1997. His work has also been the subject of exhibitions and symposiums internationally, including the National Gallery of Ireland, the Berkeley Art Museum, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Trinity College, Walker Art Gallery in England, the Hokkaido Museum in Japan, the University of Michigan, Northeastern University, and Boston Museum of Fine Arts. "It's hard to assemble an exhibition of this depth of Patrick's work," observes Jack Rutberg, "because there is such a demand for it across the Atlantic. So we're very excited that we've brought over some large canvases that he's recently completed, along with some remarkable mixed media drawings. Not only that, we've prevailed upon Patrick, who's famously private and hates to travel, to actually grace us with his presence in L.A. for the opening and a talk to be given some nights following. If you haven't heard this wonderfully articulate Irish artist speak, you're in for a rare privilege indeed." |
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