Increasingly compared to the pantheons of art including Lucian Freud, Manet, Ingres, Goya and Courbet, N.Y. contemporary painter Jerome Witkin is featured in a major exhibition entitled “JEROME WITKIN: SITE & INSIGHT” at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in Los Angeles beginning June 4 and extending through September 30, 2004.

This exhibition of recent and select paintings and drawings offers provocative works that put the viewer into intimate contact with the dense interior landscapes of both people and places. The works range from moody urban landscapes and penetrating portraits to intimate figure studies and vivid, psychologically-charged tableaux, often referencing seminal moments in history.