Brian Rutenberg: Celebrating 25 Years
May 1 - June 14, 2024
Brian Rutenberg: Celebrating 25 Years
From May 1, through June 14, 2024 Forum Gallery will present a special exhibition celebrating twenty-five years of Brian Rutenberg’s art during his association with the gallery. The exhibition will showcase twenty-one of Rutenberg’s vibrant, colorful abstract paintings inspired by the landscape of his birthplace, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, dating from 1998 to the present. Each painting is a highlight of his artistic evolution, while together the works in the exhibition illuminate the magnetic, enduring appeal of his art that has made Brian Rutenberg one of this country’s most popular painters.
Looming Pine 2, 2018
oil on paper
30 x 22 1/2 inches
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Pillow & Pool 2, 2023
oil on paper
23 x 30 inches
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On May 7 from 5:30 to 7pm, Forum Gallery will host Brian Rutenberg and Jonathan Miller Spies, “In Conversation.”
Jonathan Miller Spies has spoken on collecting American art at Princeton University and CUNY Grad Center, written a monograph on the modernist John Marin, moderated a series of symposia with curators and scholars, and publishes Hanging Papers, a weekly newsletter on the history of American art.
Brian Rutenberg joined Forum Gallery shortly after his return from a year in Ireland on a Fulbright Scholarship. The formative experience cemented for the artist that while the landscape was a starting point for his paintings, they were not “about landscape.” Images refer to trees, ponds, and atmospheric hazes but these anchor points give way to color and love, turning Rutenberg’s paintings into deeply emotive portals to places of palpable energy and harmonious contrasts.
In the video, My Fulbright Life: Brian Rutenberg, The Fulbright Program explores Rutenberg’s year in Ireland and his art.