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| PICASSO: A Graphic View July 14 - September 8, 2007 Opening Reception: July 14, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. See Portfolio  (l.) Pablo Picasso, “Garcon et Dormeuse a la Chandelle”, etching, 1934. (r.) Pablo Picasso, “Femmes Fleurs”, ceramic, 1948. Jack Rutberg Fine Arts gallery opens its summer exhibition - Picasso: A Graphic View - Saturday, July 14, with a reception from 6 to 9 PM. The exhibition will extend through Saturday, September 8. Picasso: A Graphic View will include 80 ceramics and works on paper, including thirty etchings from Picasso’s important Vollard Series executed in the 1930s. This series from Picasso’s neo-classical period represents some of the most iconic images created by the artist. Ambroise Vollard, who commissioned these remarkable etchings, was the pre-eminent champion and dealer of modern art in Paris at the turn of the 20th century. In the Vollard Suite, Picasso’s subjects metamorphose into mythical figures–gods and goddesses, centaurs and nymphs. It is an extraordinary sequence in which he explores the ideas of love, lust, the artist as creator and the mistress as muse. Several etchings in this tour de force prove prescient as their compositions, can later be found echoed in Picasso’s 1937 masterpiece - Guernica. This is clearly illustrated by Femme Torrero, III, executed on June 22, 1934. While one of the most rudimentary images in this series, it is almost entirely precedent to Picasso’s masterpiece painting. During his lifetime (1881-1973), Picasso was a prolific artist who investigated virtually all media. His passion for printmaking was evident as he committed himself to every aspect of graphic work throughout his career, working in a range of techniques including etching, drypoint, aquatint, lithography, linocut, etc. He was wildly experimental and inventive, often ignoring technical considerations to create new achievements in the media. This exhibition is an ambitious survey of some of Picasso’s most important graphic work. Picasso’s interest in creating original works in series extended beyond the confines of the flat surface, having created bronze sculptures as early as 1901. Notable in his pursuit was his expansion of three-dimensional possibilities realized through his ceramic works, beginning in 1947 at the Madoura studio in Vallauris. This exhibition includes a remarkable collection of some 40 examples of Picasso’s ceramics spanning his entire career. Picasso’s ceramics stand uniquely in the mainstream of modern art history, as no other 20th century masters committed themselves so formidably to the medium before or since Picasso. It would be more than two decades from when Picasso began this body of work that contemporary artists in the mainstream would emerge in the application of original ceramics as a primary aspect of their oeuvres. Interestingly, the most notable endeavors bringing ceramic works to the artworld mainstream were manifest in California through the work of Peter Voulkos, John Mason, Robert Arneson, Ken Price and others. Picasso: A Graphic View, with 80 works, is presented in tandem with a group exhibition of 30 works by contemporary and modern artists including Alexander Calder, Henri Matisse, Egon Schiele, Auguste Rodin, Arthur Dove, Arshile Gorky, Hans Burkhardt, Mark Tobey, Oskar Fischinger, Francisco Zuniga, Ruth Weisberg, Jerome Witkin, Sam Francis, Ed Ruscha and Andy Warhol. Jack Rutberg Fine Arts gallery is located at 357 North La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles. Gallery hours are 10 AM to 6 PM Tuesday through Friday, and 10 AM to 5 PM Saturday. The gallery is closed Sunday and Monday. |
| GEORGE NAMA - INSPIRED BY POETRY: Sculptures, Etchings and Gouaches With the Poetry of Yves Bonnefoy, Alfred Brendel, & Charles Simic March 14 - April 28, 2007 Opening Reception: Wednesday, March 14, 7:00 - 9:30 p.m. With a poetry reading by Mr. Brendel SEE PORTFOLIO |
 George Nama, "Untitled", 2005, bronze, 12 x 5 1/2 x 7 1/2". |
| The works of New York artist George Nama will be featured in an exhibition of sculptures, gouaches, and etchings inspired by the poetry of his friends and collaborators Yves Bonnefoy, Alfred Brendel, and Charles Simic. Their poetry, accompanied by Nama’s works, serves as the basis of a collaborative art exhibition at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in Los Angeles, entitled “George Nama - Inspired by Poetry: Sculptures, Etchings and Gouaches,” which opens with a reception on Wednesday, March 14 at 7 PM, and extends through Saturday, April 28. The exhibition focuses on the work of two portfolios: “Poems: Yves Bonnefoy, Alfred Brendel, Charles Simic” with twelve original Nama etchings, and “Charles Simic: Wonders of the Invisible World and Other Poems,” with ten etchings by Nama. In addition to the etchings especially created for these poetry collections, the exhibition will include a number of related unique gouache drawings and bronze sculptures by Nama. George Nama’s works are in the collections of major institutions both here and abroad. Working in expressive abstract figures in different media, he has long collaborated with major writers in creating artist’s books, which have been critically acclaimed in Europe and America. Nama has previously partnered on seven books with Yves Bonnefoy, the important French poet and literary figure whose writings on art and literature, including books on Miro, Goya and Giacometti, have informed whole generations of post-WWII cultural audiences. Nama has previously collaborated with Alfred Brendel, the world-famous concert pianist who is performing in Los Angeles at Disney Hall on March 13 and in Santa Barbara on March 15. Brendel, who in recent years has been celebrated for his poetry, wrote a suite of poems entitled “Devil’s Pagaent” for which Nama created a series of accompanying etchings and sculptures. Their collaboration was the subject of an exhibition at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in 2002. In 2004, Nama and Brendel followed with “Thirteen Angels,” exhibited at the Rutberg Gallery 2004. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic has also worked extensively in collaboration with George Nama. Simic is currently the poetry editor of The Paris Review and the author of more than sixty books. Simic has won, among many other honors, a MacArthur ‘Genius’ grant. An opening reception for “George Nama - Inspired by Poetry: Sculptures, Etchings and Gouaches” will be held Wednesday, March 14 from 7 to 9 PM with George Nama and Alfred Brendel in attendance, and will feature an informal reading and catalogue signing. The fully-illustrated exhibition catalogue with poetry and introductory essay by Elisabeth Kashey, was originally published for the inaugural show in 2006 at Shepherd & Derom Galleries in New York. Concurrently, the gallery will also feature a group exhibition of select paintings and drawings by significant modern and contemporary artists. The George Nama exhibition extends from Thursday, March 14, through Saturday, April 28. Jack Rutberg Fine Arts is located at 357 North La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday 10 AM to 6 PM; Saturday 10 AM to 5 PM. For further information phone (323) 938-5222. |
| NUDE Modern & Contemporary Paintings, Drawings, Prints & Sculpture October 21 - December 23, 2006 Reception: October 21, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. Opening with a reception Saturday, October 21 from 6:00 to 9:00 PM, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts at 357 North La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles presents "NUDE," an exhibition of paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture. This exhibition, with over 50 works, spans more than a century and includes a wide stylistic range as exampled by contemporary artists David Hockney and Raymond Pettibon, Pop artist Tom Wesselmann, Surrealists Roberto Matta and Joseph Cornell and early modernists Arshile Gorky and Henri Matisse, along with Impressionists such as Pierre Auguste Renoir. |
 Egon Schiele "Girl" 1918 |
| Some highlights from the "NUDE" exhibition include exceedingly rare Renoir pastels originally from the estate of Ambroise Vollard, drawings by Henri Matisse and Arshile Gorky, and an outstanding collection of original graphic works by Egon Schiele. Other notable rarities include drawings by the French Impressionist, Henri Fantin-Latour, a collage by Joseph Cornell, Willem deKooning’s rare lithograph Bather, and sculptures and drawings by Francisco Zuniga, Gaston Lachaise, Elie Nadelman and others. "NUDE" also includes artists John Altoon, Karel Appel, Don Bachardy, Hans Burkhardt, Marc Chagall, Patrick Graham, George Grosz, Stanley William Hayter, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Jeff Koons, Rico Lebrun, Peter Milton, Henry Moore, Jim Morphesis, Raymond Pettibon, Pablo Picasso, Felicien Rops, Georges Rouault, Morgan Russell, Raphael Soyer, Ruth Weisberg and Jerome Witkin, etc. The exhibition which opens October 21, extends through Saturday, December 23, 2006 at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, located at 357 North La Brea Ave. in Los Angeles. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday from 10 AM to 6 PM , and Saturday from 10 AM to 5 PM. |
| SUMMER SELECTIONS Portraits - Places - Perspectives Paintings, Drawings, Prints & Sculpture July 7 - October 7, 2006 Opening July 7, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. Free shuttle buses for opening Los Angeles, CA - Jack Rutberg Fine Arts will present an exhibition of select contemporary and modern works as part of the L. A. Mid-Wilshire cultural event, Gallery Night Out. This ambitious exhibition, Summer Selections: Portraits - Places - Perspectives, opening July 7, will feature more than 50 major paintings, drawings, original prints, and sculpture by significant American, European, and Latin American artists. The exhibition extends through September 9, 2006. |
 David Hockney, “J-SOHN VII”, 1984, Charcoal on Paper, 30 3/8 x 22 1/2 inches. |
| Among the notable artists included are Cy Twombly, David Hockney, Robert Rauschenberg, Hans Burkhardt, Alexander Calder, Helen Frankenthaler, Patrick Graham, Jasper Johns, Ruth Weisberg, Jerome Witkin, Sam Francis, Arshile Gorky, Oskar Fischinger, Mark Tobey, Arthur Dove, Francisco Zuniga, Marc Chagall, Kathe Kollwitz, Max Beckmann, and others. Summer Selections: Portraits - Places - Perspectives opens with a special reception from 6:00 p.m. till 10:00 p.m. on July 7, as an area wide event. FREE SHUTTLE BUSES will be provided, for the opening reception, between numerous gallery venues including LACMA. The exhibition at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts will extend through September 9. Jack Rutberg Fine Arts is located at 357 N. La Brea Avenue. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., and Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. For additional information, please telephone 323-938-5222. |
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