Los Angeles, CA – Two solo exhibitions surveying the works of important women artists from Los Angeles, Claire Falkenstein and Ruth Weisberg, open with a reception at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Saturday, February 18 from 6-9 p.m., with Weisberg in attendance. The exhibitions run through June 30, and continue the gallery’s themed Pacific Standard Time shows, which debuted September 28, 2011 with an historic Hans Burkhardt exhibition.
“Ruth Weisberg: Now & Then” presents paintings and works on paper by one of Los Angeles’ most celebrated figurative artists since her arrival in 1969. The exhibition, which includes her most recent paintings, and spans more than three decades, reveals Weisberg’s unique vision through which the viewer sees the convergence of art history, personal memory, and cultural experience.
The exhibition reveals Weisberg’s decades-long interest in re-imagining the works of such past masters as Titian, Velazquez, Blake and Corot. Through fresco-like effects in her unstretched paintings, as well as the veils of washes in her masterful lithographs, Weisberg brings past-time into contemporary context.
Ruth Weisberg is currently a professor at USC, where she was one of the longest tenured Deans of the Roski School of Fine Art. Weisberg is the first living painter to have been afforded a solo exhibition at the Norton Simon Museum of Art. She holds that distinction as well at the Huntington Library. Her first major survey in Los Angeles was in 1979 at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. The subject of over 80 solo and 185 group exhibitions, Weisberg’s work is included in the permanent collections of over 60 museums, including the Metropolitan Museum, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Portland Art Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Getty Research Institute, the Norton Simon Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Biblioteque Nationale in Paris, and the Rome Institute Nationale per la Grafica, among many others.
Special event programs related to the Ruth Weisberg exhibition will soon be announced with additional information via E-mail and web postings at www.jackrutbergfinearts.com