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| RUTH WEISBERG NEW BEGINNINGS March 25 – May 31, 2006 Opening Reception: Saturday, March 25, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. SEE PORTFOLIO Recent paintings and drawings by Los Angeles artist Ruth Weisberg will be the subject of an exhibition entitled “New Beginnings” at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts. The exhibition opens with a reception with the artist in attendance at 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 25. The exhibition at the Rutberg Gallery extends from a major 29-foot Weisberg mural, titled “New Beginnings,” |
 Ruth Weisberg, “Harbor,” 2003, mixed media drawing, 22 1/4 x 30 inches. at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts |
| commissioned by UJA Federation of New York, now being installed in its headquarters’ entrance at 130 East 59th Street in New York City. In this new series of large and small scale paintings and drawings, Ruth Weisberg expands upon the subject of this commissioned painted mural - themes of diaspora, hope, community, and new beginnings. Weisberg explores personal and collective history through layered images which express both time and memory. Ruth Weisberg’s work is in the permanent collections of major museums internationally, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., The National Museum of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Skirball Museum, Instituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome, Italy, and the Biblioteca Nationale of France, Paris. Weisberg has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors internationally. She has the distinction of being the first contemporary painter to ever be exhibited through a commissioned body of work by the historic Huntington Library Art Collection in San Marino, CA. A past President of the College Art Association, Ruth Weisberg is currently the Dean of the School of Fine Arts at the University of Southern California. Ruth Weisberg: New Beginnings extends through May 31 at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts located at 357 N. La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles, California, 90036. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For further information phone (323) 938-5222. |
| ART OF ENGAGEMENT Major Exhibition in Conjunction with New Book by Art Historian Peter Selz November 11, 2005 - January 31, 2006 Opening Reception: Friday, November 11, 7:00 - 9:30 p.m. ONLINE PORTFOLIO Jack Rutberg Fine Arts is presenting an important and timely exhibition, "Art of Engagement," which will officially launch the much anticipated book by renowned art historian, Peter Selz, entitled, "Art of Engagement: Visual Politics in California and Beyond," published by University of California Press. The exhibition opens with a reception and book signing by Selz, co-hosted by UC Press, on Friday, November 11th from 7 to 9:30 PM. The exhibition will extend through January 31, 2006. |
 Alexis Smith, "Dove", 2003, collage, is included in "Art of Engagement" at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts |
| In its scope and breadth, the "Art of Engagement" exhibition functions as an ambitious historical survey of artistic expressions in contemporary and modern art inspired by social and political issues. The exhibition centers on works that are compelling for their artistic expressions. Collectively, these works underscore the degree to which artists have been responsive to such issues, in spite of the relative rarity of similar exhibitions presented by museums and galleries. Subjects addressed in the exhibition include: free speech, eco-environmentalism, gender politics, racial issues, and labor activism are just a few of the subjects explored in "Art of Engagement," along with images of conflict, from the Spanish Civil War,World War II and the Holocaust to the war and political agitation of the Vietnam war years up through to the present war in Iraq. The exhibition will include nearly eighty paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings by Pablo Picasso, George Grosz, Otto Dix, Fernand Leger, Kaethe Kollwitz, Ben Shahn, Jack Levine, William Gropper, Jose Orozco, Roberto Matta, Leon Golub, Hans Burkhardt, Romare Bearden, Ed Kienholz, Bruce Conner, Robert Arneson, Vija Celmins, Christo and Jean-Claude, Ed Ruscha, Terry Allen, Richard Serra, Jerome Witkin, Manuel Ocampo, Llyn Foulkes, Judy Chicago, Andy Warhol, Betye Saar, Masami Teraoka, Peter Saul, Nathan Oliveira, Alexis Smith, Ruth Weisberg, Raymond Pettibon, Faith Ringgold, Lari Pittman, Patrick Graham, Manuel Ocampo, Enrique Chagoya, and others. The exhibition will include works loaned by the Berkeley Art Museum in recognition of Peter Selz as its Founding Director. In his roles as a distinguished museum curator and director, art historian, and the author of more than twenty books, Peter Selz has been a formidable force in the arts, responsible for introducing or broadening recognition of many major artists in America, among them Mark Rothko, Max Beckmann, Jean Dubuffet, Alberto Giacometti, and the German Expressionists. Early in his career, Selz was at the Institute of Design, the new Bauhaus of Chicago, when he received a Fulbright Grant to study postwar French painting. In the 1950's Selz came to California where he served as Chairman of the Art Department at Pomona College and as Director of its gallery. In the 1960's, Selz organized numerous groundbreaking exhibitions as curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where he gained a reputation for a prescient and provocative eye. Selz was the Founding Director of the Berkeley Art Museum at UC Berkeley, where he brought to prominence such California luminaries as Sam Francis, Bruce Conner, and Peter Voulkos, among others. He is Professor Emeritus of the History of Art at UC Berkeley. "Art of Engagement" opens on November 11 and extends through January 31. Related educational programs complementing this important exhibition will include a program featuring a discussion with Peter Selz and Henry Hopkins on the evening of December 3, at 7:30 p.m. Reservations required. |
| "Latin American Masters" September 16 - October 29, 2005 Opening Reception: Friday, September 16, 7-9:30pm ONLINE PORTFOLIO "Latin American Masters" includes more than 80 paintings, drawings, prints, photographs and sculpture by such major Latin American artists as Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, Leonora Carrington, Dr. Atl, Gunther Gerzso, Roberto Matta, David Alfredo Siqueiros, Jean Charlot, Carlos Merida, Jose Luis Cuevas, Rodolfo Morales, Rafael Coronel, Francisco Toledo, Francisco Zuniga, and others. The exhibition compliments the growing international interest in Latin American art as reflected in recent museum exhibitions, auction activity and contemporary collecting, and continues the gallery’s commitment to offering important works of American, European, and Latin American art. |
 Bernice Kolko (1905-1970), "FRIDA KAHLO", c.1953, platinum print. |
| Several highlights of the exhibition of particular interest to collectors will include a rare work by Alfredo Ramos-Martinez - an easel-size fresco that portrays one of his iconic floral still lifes, a large painting and rare sculptures by Rufino Tamayo, and also on view are early and rare oil paintings by the Mexican artist Francisco Zuniga (born in Costa Rica), as well as the introduction of sixteen previously unpublished woodcuts from the mid -1930s, now exhibited and made available to collectors for the first time. Most remarkable, are 10 portraits of Frida Kahlo, including her death portrait requested by her husband, Diego Rivera. These portraits by photographer, Bernice Kolko, never before exhibited, are an evocation of a particular historic moment and personality, and are compelling photographic achievements. The exhibition of these most intimate images of Frida Kahlo serve as a fitting tribute to Bernice Kolko, whose centennial will be celebrated this year in a solo exhibition devoted to her photographs at the Museo Frida Kahlo, in Mexico City. |
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