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| Acquisitions July 8 - September 3, 2005 Opening Reception: Friday, July 8, 7-9:30pm  Opening with a reception Friday, July 8 at 7 PM, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts at 357 North La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles presents a summer exhibition rich with "Acquisitions" of paintings, drawings, prints, and sculpture. Highlights of this large show span the dawn of modern art, with works by Francisco Goya, Toulouse Lautrec, Matisse and Vlaminck as well as other modern masters. Particularly noteworthy are two unique paintings: a Mark Tobey canvas, exceptional in a rare, larger size, with the artist’s lyric de-constructions into luminous, vibrating forms, and an unusual George Grosz oil, an arresting table scape executed in 1927, whose serene domestic subject and sensual palette belies the tumultuous period during which it was created. Contemporary artists have a significant presence in the exhibition, with new works by Ed Ruscha, Frank Gehry, John Baldessari, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Cecily Brown, Susan Rothenberg, and Elizabeth Murray. Other artists represented in "Acquisitions: Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture" are Hans Burkhardt, Alexander Calder, Anthony Caro, Paul Cezanne, Marc Chagall, Oskar Fischinger, Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, Arshile Gorky, Patrick Graham, David Hockney, Edward Kienholz, Käthe Kollwitz, Rico Lebrun, Roberto Matta, Man Ray, Joan Miro, Donald Sultan, Ruth Weisberg, Jerome Witkin, and Francisco Zuniga. |
| OSKAR FISCHINGER: MOTION PAINTINGS Curated by Peter Frank March 11 - April 30, 2005 Preview Reception: Friday, March 11, 7-9:30 pm SEE ONLINE PORTFOLIO A survey of paintings and drawings by Oskar Fischinger (1900-1967), the German-born pioneer of abstract animation, opens at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts on Friday, March 11, 2005, with a preview reception from 7 to 9:30 PM. Fischinger is prominently represented in "Visual Music: 1905 ˆ 2005," at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles, February 13 through May 22. The Fischinger survey at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts is curated by art critic Peter Frank, who has also collaborated on the educational component of "Visual Music." According to Peter Frank, "we now understand Oskar Fischinger not only as a link between the geometric painting of pre-war Europe and post-war California but as a grandfather of the digital arts." |
 Oskar Fischinger, "Square Symphony", 1943, 27 x 20 inches. |
| Oskar Fischinger's earliest drawings and paintings were first created as sequential components in his films to evoke various states of consciousness, often using music as a springboard to syncopate lines, forms and color. His work also reflects his interest in spirituality, especially Buddhism and Theosophy. Fischinger‚s influence on the development of avant-garde abstract films is profound, with the genius of his vision acknowledged by 20th Century luminaries such as Orson Welles, Wassily Kandinsky, Moholy Nagy, Lyonel Feininger, Leopold Stokowski and John Cage. |
 Oskar Fischinger, "Color Sinfony", 1957, 13 x 12 inches. |
Fischinger's artistic innovations in film, recognized in Hollywood where he moved to work in 1936, eventually evolved exclusively into painting. In that medium he distilled his ideas in non-objective abstraction, presaging and significantly influencing Los Angeles‚ contemporary hard-edge abstract painters.
Jack Rutberg Fine Arts represents the Oskar Fischinger estate. In addition to organizing a number of comprehensive exhibitions of his work, the gallery also produced the first American video of seven of Fischinger‚s visionary animated films from the 1920, 30s and 40s. The Oskar Fischinger exhibition at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts opens March 11 and extends through Saturday, April 30, 2005. Jack Rutberg Fine Arts gallery is located at 357 North La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday 10 AM to 6 PM, and Saturday 10 AM to 5 PM. |
| ARSHILE GORKY: THE EARLY YEARS November 5 - February 26, 2005 SEE EXHIBITION PORTFOLIO Also on View: Jerome Witkin: Site & Insight Part 2 A rare exhibition of drawings and paintings by one the most pivotal and significant 20th century American painters, Arshile Gorky, will be featured at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in Los Angeles with a major exhibition Arshile Gorky: The Early Years opening on November 5, extending through February 26. |
 Arshile Gorky, "Staten Island", 1927, oil on canvas, 16 x 20". |
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The exhibition will be accompanied by a 93 page, illustrated text published for the occasion with essay by leading Gorky scholar, Melvin P. Lader. Dr. Lader co-curated the recent major retrospective of Gorky drawings at the Whitney Museum of Art in N.Y. and the Menil Collection in Houston. Dr. Lader's text expands upon his extensive writings on Gorky, offering new references and insights on this legendary artist. Arshile Gorky was born in 1904 in the province of Van in Armenia. Following the Armenian massacres of 1915, resulting in extreme hardships including the death by starvation of his mother, Gorky (born Vosdanik Adoian) emigrated to New York in 1920. In America, only a few years later, Gorky's talents were quickly recognized as he began teaching at the age of 21, first at the New School of Design, and from 1926-32, at the Grand Central School of Art. A formidable artistic force, Gorky was a lightning rod for what was to become the "New York School" as he assimilated European influences from the "classic" artists ranging from the old masters as Piero della Francesca, Vermeer, Poussin and Brueghel to Ingres. It was however, Gorky's absorption of Cezanne and the Cubist works of Picasso and Braque, and ultimately Miro, Matta and the Surrealists that would set the course of modern art in America. This exhibition of drawings, mostly never before shown, and paintings from this early period reference this seminal period when so many artists were infused with these, then avant garde sensibilities. It was during this period when Gorky's acquaintance was made and would leave its profound impact upon such artists as John Graham, Willem deKooning, Hans Burkhardt, Stuart Davis, David Burliuk, Ethel Schwabacher (who ultimately wrote a book on Gorky), Isamu Noguchi and a great many other notables. Arshile Gorky: The Early Years opens on November 5 at the Jack Rutberg Fine Arts gallery with an opening reception from 7:00 till 9:30 p.m. The exhibition runs concurrently with a seperate exhibition, Jerome Witkin:Sight & Insight Part 2 paintings and drawings from works of intimate scale to the monumental including Witkin's celebrated Entering Darkness measuring 36 feet in length. The gallery is located at 357 N. La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday from 10:00 a.m. till 6:00 p.m and Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. till 5:00 p.m. For additional information contact (323) 938-5222. |
| JEROME WITKIN: SITE & INSIGHT A Major Exhibition of Paintings & Drawings June 4 - September 30, 2004 Opening Reception: June 4, 7:00-9:00 p.m. ONLINE PORTFOLIO Increasingly being compared to the pantheons of art including Lucien Freud, Manet, Ingres, Goya and Courbet - N.Y. contemporary painter, Jerome Witkin, will be featured in a major exhibition entitled "JEROME WITKIN: SITE & INSIGHT" at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in Los Angeles beginning June 4, and extending through September 30, 2004. |
 Jerome Witkin, "Keep Me in Your Heart Awhile", 2003-4, oil on canvas, 72 x 56". |
| This exhibition of recent and select paintings and drawings offers provocative works that put the viewer into intimate contact with the dense interior landscapes of both people and places. The works range from moody urban landscapes and penetrating portraits to intimate figure studies and vivid, psychologically-charged tableaux, often referencing seminal moments in history. For example, this exhibition will exhibit for the first time outside a museum the enormous six-panel exploration of Dachau’s 1945 liberation ("Entering Darkness", 2001). This work is the culmination of a 20 year-series Witkin has produced on the Holocaust, regarded by critics as among the most compelling paintings made on the subject. Also on view is Witkin’s 2001 painting entitled "9/11," an expressionist tour de force which conjures the World Trade Center search and rescue site at a distance, where poignant gestures are telegraphed against the tower of rubble and debris under an eerily phosphorescent night sky. Previous Witkin exhibitions in Los Angeles have drawn critical raves. The Los Angeles Times hailed Witkin’s "indelible, pungent force", and cited his work to be ". . .a breakthrough in post-Cold-War art." Art in America declared: "Jerome Witkin charges the realism of his paintings with Action-Painting technique, tour-de-force draftsmanship and emotionally loaded narration." Art historian Donald Kuspit, in a his review, called Witkin’s work "dreams in the grand visionary manner of the Old Masters" . . . painted with "the rhapsodic abandon of pure sensation" . . . "unequivocal masterpieces." The Jewish Journal calls Witkin "perhaps the greatest figurative painter alive." Indeed, art critic Kenneth Baker has declared that "Witkin’s only peer is Lucien Freud"...and that Witkin ranks among the most underestimated artists today. Witkin’s work, not surprisingly, is found in many of the permanent collections of major art museums worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn, and the Uffizi. The opening reception for "JEROME WITKIN: SITE & INSIGHT" with the artist in attendance at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts will be held on Friday, June 4, from 7 PM till 9:30. Jack Rutberg Fine Arts is located at 357 N. La Brea Ave., and is open Tuesday - Friday 10 - 6 and Saturday 10 - 5. For further information, please phone (323) 938-5222. Online articles about the exhibition: Review by Mario Cutajar for Artscene: http://www.artscenecal.com/ArticlesFile/Articles0704a/JeWitkinB.html Yahoo News: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/arts_holocaust_dc Reuters News: http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=ourWorldNews&storyID=5927296&pageNumber=0 |
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