Gallery Director’s Video Tour Brings Hispanic Legacy to Life
As old and new worlds collide, art galleries are increasingly embracing digital engagement and multimedia, and Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in Pasadena has found an unexpected but welcome multi-use: their virtual content is enhancing, rather than replacing, the in-person art experience. The gallery’s current exhibition, “Hispanic Legacy,” which has been extended through February 1st due […]
At a Pasadena Gallery, Hispanic Legacy Takes Center Stage
Published on Oct. 26, 2024BY DAVID CROSS In an intimate art gallery setting in Pasadena, Jack Rutberg surveys his latest exhibition with the practiced eye of someone who has spent half a century dealing art. The art exhibition at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts , “Hispanic Legacy,” follows the celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month, and […]
Women in Art: A Journey Toward Equality and Recognition
In a recent interview, Pasadena Now’s David Cross sat down with Jack Rutberg, owner and director of Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in Pasadena, who offered insights into the evolving role of women in the art world. Rutberg’s gallery, established in the early 1980s in Los Angeles, has consistently showcased female artists, not as a reaction to trends, […]
‘Touchstones’: Jack Rutberg Fine Arts Hosts Ruth Weisberg Exhibition – By Luke NetzleyPasadena Weekly Deputy Editor
Ruth Weisberg has long been a leading voice in the advancement Ruth of contemporary women artists in Los Angeles. The subject of over 80 solo and nearly 200 group exhibitions, her work has been included in the permanent collections of over 60 museums around the world. Through Saturday, Dec. 23, 21 of her artworks will […]
Ruth Weisberg’s ‘Touchstones’ Exhibition Reveals a Dialogue with History – By The Pasadena Now WEEKENDR
Located at 600 South Lake Avenue in Pasadena, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts has curated a space where visitors can traverse through Weisberg’s decades-long investigation into the personal and collective memory, set against the backdrop of art history. Her works, whether they be paintings, drawings or original prints, echo the whispers of past masters like William […]
An Artful Future: Jack Rutberg Fine Arts Plans Range of Exhibitions – By Eddie Rivera, Editor, WEEKENDR Magazine
As Rutberg noted, “People don’t realize that you can own a work by Goya —an original work by Goya — for less. I’m talking about an etching now, an original etching, for less than you would pay for nearly every contemporary major artist today. I just acquired ‘The Little Prisoner’ by Goya, which is about […]
Meet Jack Rutberg
In my early twenties, I found myself in a store that was having an art auction. I was there to buy an advertised garbage can for $1.50 for my first apartment. I don’t recall if I actually bought the garbage can, but I sat down watching the auction and went home with nine etchings, lithographs […]
The Journey of a Lifetime: Jack Rutberg honored by the International Art Association
“I was very touched by it, particularly because it comes from artists,” he said. “We live in an age where celebrity and power and the things that equate power seem to overtake everything, and I’d like to think that I’ve spent decades being accessible to artists and being kind to them because I have so […]
Nuanced Splendor: The Monochromatic Masterpieces of “Sam Francis – Distilled”
The opening reception in Pasadena will take place May 21, 2023, from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. Attendees will have the opportunity to explore the exhibition and engage with Francis’ masterful creations. While Sam Francis is widely recognized for his vibrant and colorful artworks, “Sam Francis – Distilled” sheds light on what can be considered the […]
Pasadena Art Gallery Owner Awarded International Art Association/USA Lifetime Achievement Award
The award citation reads in part: “For almost half a century, Jack Rutberg has profoundly enhanced the cultural life of Angelenos, with museum-quality exhibitions of important modern and contemporary European, American and Latin American artists. He is a generous educator, offering lectures and crafting essays that have elevated our understanding of the nature and historical context of […]
From La Brea to Lake Avenue: How a Long-Established L.A. Gallery Moved Eastward and Is Making Waves in Pasadena
While international headlines continually trumpet the news that major East Coast and European galleries are moving to the L.A. and Hollywood region, it is notable that one of L.A.’s most venerated galleries moved in another direction — eastward — but only a short distance to Pasadena. The Rutberg gallery early pioneered L.A.’s mid-Wilshire/Hollywood gallery scene […]
Rutberg Speaks at Loveland Museum Exhibit NY-NY
Frankenthaler, Sol LeWitt, Nevelson, Stella. These are just a few of the influential mid-twentieth century modern masters that anchor the collection of Loveland artist, collector and entrepreneur Doug Erion. This exhibition explores the discerning eye of an avid collector and academician, and expands upon the oeuvre of each artist in the collection with complementary loans […]
Jack Rutberg etches place in Pasadena art history
By Luke NetzleyPasadena Weekly Deputy Editor By Luke NetzleyPasadena Weekly Deputy Editor By Luke NetzleyPasadena Weekly Deputy Editor By Luke NetzleyPasadena Weekly Deputy Editor “The first time I ever held an etching in my hands, an original etching by Rembrandt, I remember it so distinctly. It gave me this connectivity. It gave me this connection […]
Ruth Weisberg: Then & Now – By The Art Center
Weisberg found her voice through what she calls, “traveling through time,” acknowledging that her family was part of a diaspora and a Jewish heritage filled with struggle. She put herself into her work, both literally and metaphorically, defining how interconnected the personal is with history and the politics surrounding it. She was emotionally devastated by […]
Ruth Weisberg: Of Memory, Time & Place – By Stamps Gallery, University of Michigan
Born and raised in Chicago, Weisberg moved to Ann Arbor to pursue her higher studies, she completed her B.Ed (1964), after spending three years in Perugia, Italy where she earned a Laurea di Belle Arti in 1962, and MFA (1965). Since her arrival in Los Angeles, Weisberg has been a formidable influence and mentor to decades of […]
Patrick Graham: Transfiguration – By Hugh Lane Gallery – Dublin, Ireland
Graham emerged in the 1980s in a period of uncertainty for the discipline of painting in critical art discourse. He consolidated a position dedicated to a personal quest for existential meaning through aesthetic experience. The electricity and intensity inherent in the work along with the raw emotion evidenced in his gestural marks is derived from […]