Brian Rutenberg Explained

Brian Rutenberg
Birth Name:Brian Christopher Rutenberg
Birth Date:18 September 1965
Birth Place:Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, United States
Known For:Abstract painting
Training:BFA from College of Charleston, MFA School of Visual Arts, New York
Movement:Abstraction,[1] Landscape Painting[2]
Awards:Basil H. Alkazzi Award, Fulbright Scholarship

Brian Christopher Rutenberg (born September 18, 1965, in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina) is an American abstract painter.

Rutenberg received his BFA from the College of Charleston in 1987 and his MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 1989. He currently lives and works in New York City.

Early life

Brian Rutenberg was born on September 18 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, the first of three sons, to John and Sandra Rutenberg. He attended private school at Myrtle Beach's Coastal Academy from 1974 through 1983. After demonstrating a long-term interest in drawing, Rutenberg began after school watercolor classes, and conducted his own experiments with acrylic paints. In 1983 Rutenberg began his studies at the College of Charleston, where he met and studied under abstract painter William Melton Halsey. Also during college, Rutenberg took classes with British abstract painter Michael Tyzack, who became his faculty advisor and close friend. In 1986 Rutenberg listened for the first time to Glenn Gould's 1981 second recording of J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations, which launched the artist's deep and lasting interest in the late Canadian pianist's music and philosophy. Rutenberg graduated with honors from College of Charleston in 1987 and moved to New York, where he entered the MFA program at the School of Visual Arts, New York.

Career

.In 1989 Francis Marion University Art Gallery in Florence, South Carolina presented the artist's first solo exhibition. Rutenberg was awarded the Basil H. Alkazzi Award in 1991, which enabled him to study in Rome, Bologna and Venice, Italy for three weeks where he studied the works of Annibale Carracci, Bernini and Tiepolo. Inspired by 17th- and 18th-century Italian ceiling paintings and the Villa d'Este near Rome, Rutenberg began his River Paintings series.

In 1992 Rutenberg was awarded a year-long Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Grant. One year later, the artist had his first New York solo exhibition, River Paintings, at Cavin-Morris Gallery. During the same year the Greenville County Museum of Art in Greenville, South Carolina organized Rutenberg's first museum exhibition.

In 1994, Rutenberg started to take trips to Toronto and Ottawa, Canada to closely study Glenn Gould’s life and career. He traveled to Canada annually for this purpose until 2002. Inspired by Gould and his music, Rutenberg enrolled in music history classes at New York's Juilliard School.

In 1997 Rutenberg received a Fulbright Fellowship which afforded him the opportunity to spend a year in Ireland.

Rutenberg had his first solo exhibition with Forum Gallery in Los Angeles in 2000. Forum Gallery, New York [3] became Rutenberg's primary representative.

In 2018 Rutenberg received an Honorary Doctorate Degree from the College of Charleston, Charleston, SC.

Major exhibitions

Awards

Sea Island Trust Visiting Artist

Artists Work Programme Studio Grant, Irish Museum of Modern Art

Ragdale Foundation Fellowship

Technique

Rutenberg has long placed primary importance on surface and material. His works from 1983 to 1989 included non traditional materials like cardboard, wire, masking tape, and were fashioned into shaped three-dimensional paintings and environments. From 1990 to 1995 he experimented with puncturing the picture plane with various sized holes in homage to the paintings of Lucio Fontana. Rutenberg is known for his liberal use of oil paint, sometimes up to three inches thick, and believes that a painting must address the physical presence of the viewer first.

Selected collections

Selected bibliography

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Brian Rutenberg - "Pine, Palm and River 5", 2006 The Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum To Show Brian Rutenberg . 26 August 2011 . August 27, 2011.
  2. Web site: Brian Rutenberg - "No Other Light 2", 2002 . 26 August 2011 . August 27, 2011.
  3. Web site: Forum Gallery -- Artists Represented . 2010-08-17 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100814044215/http://www.forumgallery.com/adetail.php?id=190 . 2010-08-14 .
  4. Web site: Past Exhibits at the South Carolina State Museum . 2010-08-17 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101014191921/http://www.museum.state.sc.us/exhibits/past.aspx . 2010-10-14 .
  5. Web site: Gibbes Museum : About . 2010-08-17 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100703032559/http://www.gibbesmuseum.org/visit/press_releases_detail.php?id=65 . 2010-07-03 .
  6. Web site: Radius Books » » Brian Rutenberg . 2010-08-17 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100116211131/http://radiusbooks.org/books/trade_editions/rutenberg.html . 2010-01-16 .
  7. Web site: Upcoming Exhibitions | Art Museum of Myrtle Beach . 2010-08-20 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100919164405/http://www.myrtlebeachartmuseum.org/Exhibitions/upcoming.cfm . 2010-09-19 .

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