I Will Tell You a Place: Paintings by Brian Rutenberg Currently on Display at the Morris Museum of Art
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2/12/11 I Will Tell You a Place:
Paintings by Brian Rutenberg, opened Saturday, January 29,
2011 at Augusta’s Morris Museum of Art. The
exhibition—twenty -four brilliantly colored abstract
paintings in oil inspired by the low-country of coastal
South Carolina—remains on display through Sunday, May 15,
2011. Artist Brian Rutenberg will be honored as the featured
artist at the Eighteenth Annual Morris “Brian Rutenberg’s paintings are so vivid, you can
practically hear them,” said Artist Biography Brian Rutenberg, born and raised in low-country After his graduation in 1987 he moved to New York City,
where he entered the master of fine arts program at the
School of Visual Arts. There he developed inspirational
friendships with painters Gregory Amenoff and Walter Darby
Bannard, as well as the sculptor John Raimondi, who helped
to introduce the young artist’s work to a larger audience. He has traveled widely to pursue further study— Rutenberg, who believes that a painting must address the
physical presence of the viewer first, has long placed
primary emphasis on surface and material. He is known for
his liberal use of oil paint, which is sometimes built up in
layers that are, sometimes, up to three inches thick. His
paintings, whose brilliant surfaces have the effect of an
accretion of crushed jewels, are grounded in his love for
Old Master painting and drawing, just as his sense of color
is rooted in his native Rutenberg’s work has been featured in solo exhibitions in
galleries and museums throughout the United States, Europe,
and Canada. He is represented in many prestigious public
collections, including those of the Butler Institute of
American Art, Youngstown, Ohio; the Cameron Art Museum,
Wilmington, North Carolina; the Gibbes Museum of Art,
Charleston, South Carolina; the Greenville County Museum of
Art, Greenville, South Carolina; the Herbert F.
Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York;
the Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee;
The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, Louisiana;
the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut; and
the Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia. I Will Tell You a Place: Paintings by Brian Rutenberg was
organized by the Morris Museum of Art with the assistance of
the Related Events Thursday, February 3, 6:00 p.m. Exhibition Opening: I Will Tell You a Place: Paintings by
Brian Rutenberg
Join us for live music and a champagne tasting as we
celebrate the exhibition opening. Members, free; nonmembers,
$5 per participant. Call 706-724-7501 to register. The Eighteenth Annual Morris Museum of Art Gala is being
held in the Morris Museum of Art galleries on Friday, March
4, at 7:00 p.m. This year the gala will celebrate the
exhibition I Will Tell You a Place: Paintings by Brian
Rutenberg. For more information, or to purchase tickets,
please contact Janna Crane at 706-828-3825 or
janna.crane@themorris.org. Sunday, March 6, 2:00 p.m. Lecture: Nature, Sensation, and Painting in the
Twenty-first Century Noted South Carolina art critic Jeffrey Day moderates a
panel discussion about the influence of the natural
landscape as translated by contemporary abstract artists,
with artists Brian Rutenberg, William Willis, and Mike
Lavine. Reception with the artists to follow. FREE. Sunday, March 6 Brian Rutenberg Book Signing The museum store will be hosts a book signing of Brian
Rutenberg’s 2008 monograph immediately following his 2:00
p.m. lecture. Purchase your books in the museum store, or
order advance copies online at www.themorris.org. Thursday, Toddler Time: Crazy about Color Watch colors change before your eyes as we mix, blend,
and create new hues, inspired by the paintings of Brian
Rutenberg, to produce a crazy color painting. Museum family
members and parents, free; nonmembers, $4 per participant.
Registration required. Sunday, March 13, 2:00 p.m. Artrageous! Family Sunday: Low-Country Tales Join celebrated storyteller David Baxley as he brings
exciting tales of the low country to life. Afterwards, make
a special painting based on one of the stories. FREE. Saturday, March 19, 10:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m., and Sunday,
March 20, noon–4:30 p.m. Adult Artist Workshop: Abstract Landscape Painting Artist and Augusta State University instructor Tom
Crowther leads participants through the process of painting
a large abstract landscape inspired by the exhibition I Will
Tell You a Place. All materials are included. PLU credit may
be available for teachers from select counties; call for
details. Members, $100; nonmembers, $115. Paid registration
due by March 11. The Morris Museum of Art was founded in 1985 and opened to the public in 1992. It is the oldest museum in the country that is devoted to the art and artists of the American South. The museum’s permanent collection holds approximately five thousand works of art that date from the late-eighteenth century to the present. The Morris is open to the public Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m., and on Sunday, noon–5:00 p.m. For more information about the Morris Museum of Art, visit www.themorris.org or call 706-724-7501. |
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