Rutenberg, Brian
WORK TITLE: Clear Seeing Place: Studio Visits
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BIRTHDATE: 9/18/1965
WEBSITE: http://www.brianrutenbergart.com/
CITY: New York
STATE: NY
COUNTRY: United States
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| 670 | __ |a Abstract art in South Carolina, 1949-2012, 2012: |b p. 61 (Brian Rutenberg; native of Myrtle Beach; born in 1965; graduated from the College of Charleston; studied with William Halsey and Michael Tyzack; his works are held in the collections of the Butler Institute of American Art, Greenville Museum of Art, Peabody Essex Museum, South Carolina Arts Commission, South Carolina State Museum, and Yale Gallery of Art, among other venues) |
PERSONAL
Born September 18, 1965, in Myrtle Beach, SC; son of John and Sandra Rutenberg; married Kathryn Peck, April 11, 1999; children: two.
EDUCATION:College of Charleston, B.A.; School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, M.F.A., 1989.
ADDRESS
- Home - New York, NY.
CAREER
Artist, painter, educator, and YouTube video host. Visiting artist, Irish Museum of Modern Art.
Exhibitions: Works included in permanent collections of the Yale University Art Gallery, Bronx Museum of Art, Butler Institute of American Art, Peabody Essex Museum of Art, Greenville County Museum of Art, and the South Carolina State Museum.
AWARDS:Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Grant, 1992;; Fulbright Fellowship, 1997; New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship; Basil Alkazzi USA Award.
WRITINGS
- (With Martica Sawin) Brian Rutenberg, Radius Books (Santa Fe, NM), 2018
- Clear Seeing Place: Studio Visits, Permanent Green (New York, NY), 2016
Creator and host of YouTube video series Brian Rutenberg Studio Visits.
SIDELIGHTS
Brian Rutenberg is an American abstract painter, author, educator, and video host. He is “known for his large abstract paintings composed of vivid fluorescent colors,” noted a writer on the website Art Net. His paintings are also unique for incorporating nontraditional materials, such as wire. He worked with painters Gregory Amenoff and Walter Darby Bannard, who became Rutenberg’s mentors and encouraged the development of his distinctive style. In addition to being a Fulbright Scholar, he is also a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow. He serves as the host of a popular YouTube video series, “Brian Rutenberg Studio Visits,” in which he discusses his work, concepts of art, and the presence of art in the world around him. With more than forty years of experience, he is “considered to be one of the finest American painters of his generation,” commented a writer on the Brian Rutenberg website. Rutenberg holds an M.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts in New York, NY.
In his book Clear Seeing Place: Studio Visits, Rutenberg “reveals his passion, authenticity, and artistic vision in a series of thoughtful vignettes about his life and work,” commented a Publishers Weekly reviewer. Based on his YouTube video series, the book gives readers additional insight into the author’s artistic process while showcasing more of his work in his New York studio. Rutenberg provides some biographical information, such as on his early life in South Carolina, but the bulk of the book focuses on his development as an artist. He describes how some of his earliest art involved the use of mud and stencils. He recounts his days an art student living and practicing in Queens, New York. He gives an inside perspective on what it’s like to be a well-known painter on an international level.
Rutenberg also addresses the fundamental concepts of abstract art, explaining that abstraction “represents a way of bringing the world up-close, so that one not only sees, but feels its integral parts,” observed a Kirkus Reviews contributor.
The author takes care to cite a number of his most important influences, including Amenoff and Bannard as well as John Raimondi, an art dealer who was one of Rutenberg’s earliest advocates. He also discusses influences that came from outside of the world of art, such as music. Rutenberg notes the importance of the self-discipline that found him working in his studio every day to develop and refine his work, and that let him create the titular “clear seeing place” that provides the insights at the foundation of his art.
The Kirkus Reviews writer called Clear Seeing Place an “original and stimulating memoir that takes readers into the mind and heart of an artist.”
BIOCRIT
BOOKS
Rutenberg, Brian, Clear Seeing Place: Studio Visits, (memoir) Permanent Green (New York, NY), 2016.
PERIODICALS
Kirkus Reviews, June 15, 2017, review of Clear Seeing Place.
New York Times, April 11, 1999, “Weddings: Kathryn Peck, Brian Rutenberg.”
Publishers Weekly, April 30, 2018, review of Clear Seeing Place, p. 57.
Small Press Bookwatch, March, 2017, review of Clear Seeing Place.
ONLINE
Artnet, http://www.artnet.com/ (September 3, 2018), biography of Brian Rutenberg.
Brian Rutenberg website, http://www.brianrutenbergart.com (September 3, 2018).
- Brian Rutenberg Radius Books (Santa Fe, NM), 2018
- Clear Seeing Place: Studio Visits - 2016 Permanent Green, https://smile.amazon.com/Clear-Seeing-Place-Studio-Visits/dp/0997442301/ref=sr_1_1_twi_pap_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1534104453&sr=8-1&keywords=Rutenberg%2C+Brian
- Brian Rutenberg - http://www.brianrutenbergart.com/bio/
Widely considered to be one of the finest American painters of his generation, Brian Rutenberg has spent forty years honing a distinctive method of compressing the rich color and form of his native coastal South Carolina into complex landscape paintings that imbue material reality with a deep sense of place.
He is a Fulbright Scholar, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, a Basil Alkazzi USA Award recipient, an Irish Museum of Modern Art visiting artist program participant, and has had over two hundred exhibition throughout North America. Rutenberg's paintings are included in such museum collections as Yale University Art Gallery, The Butler Institute of American Art, Bronx Museum of Art, Peabody Essex Museum of Art, Greenville County Museum of Art, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, South Carolina State Museum, and many others. His popular YouTube videos "Brian Rutenberg Studio Visits" are viewed daily by people all over the world. Radius Books published a full color monograph in 2008. Brian's new book, Clear Seeing Place, was released in October 2016 and is an Amazon #1 bestseller.
Brian lives and works in New York City with his wife Kathryn and their two children.
All content ©2009–2017 Brian Rutenberg, All Rights Reserved.
- Art Net - http://www.artnet.com/artists/brian-rutenberg/
Brian Rutenberg is a contemporary American painter. Best known for his large abstract paintings composed of vivid fluorescent colors, he forms his compositions through heavy, impasto marks and the use of nontraditional materials like wire. Rutenberg’s canvases evoke data deterioration and virtual landscapes, with colors intersecting in a staccato rhythm resembling a glitchy computer screen. After receiving his MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 1989, he befriended the painters Gregory Amenoff and Walter Darby Bannard, both of whom would serve as Rutenberg’s mentors, shaping and inspiring his later work. Born on September 18, 1965 in Myrtle Beach, SC, the artist now maintains a studio practice in New York. He has exhibited work in various South Carolinian museums in tandem with gallery representation by Forum in Los Angeles and New York, as well as garnering awards like a Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Grant in 1992, and a Fulbright Fellowship for study in Ireland in 1997.
- New York Times - https://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/11/style/weddings-kathryn-peck-brian-rutenberg.html
WEDDINGS; Kathryn Peck, Brian Rutenberg
Dr. Kathryn Peck, a resident in obstetrics and gynecology at Tisch Hospital in New York, is to be married this afternoon to Brian Rutenberg, an artist in New York. The Rev. John Bucki is to perform the ceremony at St. Francis Xavier Roman Catholic Church in New York.
Dr. Rutenberg, 27, graduated summa cum laude from New York University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She received an M.D. degree from the State University at Stony Brook, N.Y. She is a daughter of Joan Peck and Dr. James Peck of Portland, Ore., where her father is a vascular surgeon.
Mr. Rutenberg, 33, graduated from the College of Charleston and received an M.F.A. in painting from the School of Visual Arts. He is a son of Sandra and John Rutenberg of Myrtle Beach, S.C. His father is a lawyer in Myrtle Beach.
https://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/11/style/weddings-kathryn-peck-brian-rutenberg.html
Clear Seeing Place: Studio Visits
Publishers Weekly.
265.18 (Apr. 30, 2018): p57. From Book Review Index Plus. COPYRIGHT 2018 PWxyz, LLC http://www.publishersweekly.com/
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Clear Seeing Place: Studio Visits
Brian Rutenberg. Permanent Green, $16.95 trade paper (312p) ISBN 978-0-9974423-0-4
Abstract painter Rutenberg reveals his passion, authenticity, and artistic vision in a series of thoughtful vignettes about his life and work. Expanding on his YouTube series Studio Visits, the author invites readers into his New York City studio to learn about the messy act of creation, sharing his journey of self-discovery through short essays on his creative process and the people who have influenced his work, including the painter Gregory Amendoff and art dealer John Raimondi, who supported Rutenberg early in his career. Rutenberg tracks his artistic growth from his childhood in South Carolina in the 1970s experimenting with mud and stencils, to his days as an art student living in Queens, N.Y., and later in his career as an internationally exhibited landscape painter living in Manhattan. He frequently refers to musicians who influenced him; for example, he practices Duke Ellington's dictum, "The wise musicians are those who play what they can master," by painting in his studio every day. This dedicated training has freed his imagination and originality, he writes, creating what he calls a "clear seeing place" into his art and revealing "a deeper truth that relies less on visual accuracy than on personal and cultural experience." This well-written artist's coming-of-age-story will appeal to young artists looking to make a career of their passion. (BookLife)
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
"Clear Seeing Place: Studio Visits." Publishers Weekly, 30 Apr. 2018, p. 57. Book Review Index
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Rutenberg, Brian: CLEAR SEEING PLACE
Kirkus Reviews.
(June 15, 2017): From Book Review Index Plus. COPYRIGHT 2017 Kirkus Media LLC http://www.kirkusreviews.com/
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Rutenberg, Brian CLEAR SEEING PLACE Permanent Green (Indie Nonfiction) $16.93 10, 19 ISBN: 978-0-9974423-0-4
In this debut chronicle, an abstract painter offers a vivid look into a working studio and the development of his own artistic vision. To many nonartists, abstract art may seem to be the most inaccessible of all forms, as it often lacks familiar images to cling to. To Rutenberg, however, abstraction represents a way of bringing the world up-close, so that one not only sees, but feels its integral parts. "Art happens," Rutenberg states, "when the intellectual and the visceral collide so violently that they fuse into a third thing." His love of art is palpable in this book, which serves as a companion piece to his YouTube series, "Brian Rutenberg Studio Visits." He only sparsely describes the events of his own life, but he lavishly and lovingly dissects his growth as an artist, from his childhood compositions, created out of marsh mud and colored paper on hot summer days on the South Carolina coast, to later canvases that he stabbed with an ice pick in his loft studio in Manhattan. Alongside this deeply personal story, Rutenberg also offers a down-to-earth course on the transcendent power of art, presenting a wide range of examples, including works by Pablo Picasso and pianist Glenn Gould. The text is peppered with memorable passages, such as "All artists live in the gap between what they imagine and produce," "When the effortless appears difficult, it's entertainment. When the difficult appears effortless, it's art," and "An artist's job is to monkey with stuff. We don't seek solutions but problems. We play because we can." Rutenberg's love of his work is infectious, and his analyses of artistic issues are engaging and appealing, never indulging in the elitism that some may associate with the world of fine art. His delight in his chosen craft also counters the myth of the tortured artist, although a slightly less rosy perspective and a few more details about life's challenges might have added a welcome touch of realism. All in all, however, it's an exhilarating treatise on how to really "see" the world. An original and stimulating memoir that takes readers into the mind and heart of an artist.
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
"Rutenberg, Brian: CLEAR SEEING PLACE." Kirkus Reviews, 15 June 2017. Book Review
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Clear Seeing Place: Studio Visits
Small Press Bookwatch.
(Mar. 2017): From Book Review Index Plus.
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
"Clear Seeing Place: Studio Visits." Small Press Bookwatch, Mar. 2017. Book Review Index Plus,
http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A491086750/GPS?u=schlager&sid=GPS& xid=15fbb33e. Accessed 12 Aug. 2018.
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