Brian Rutenberg at Nancy Toomey Fine Art

Описание: Nancy Toomey Fine Art is pleased to announce an exhibition of works by Brian Rutenberg entitled “Looming Pine” on view through June 30, 2018. The gallery is located inside San Francisco's Minnesota Street Project, 1275 Minnesota Street. The public is invited to the artist reception on Saturday, June 2, from 5pm to 7pm. More: https://goo.gl/4BN4zi

Exhibition statement excerpt:

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 rich colors and forms into complex landscape paintings that imbue material reality with a deep sense of place. The allusion is often to landscape, but looking closely at his work, it is clear that his primary interest is how the painting was made. The forceful manipulation of his materials allows the viewer a visceral response to the forms within the confines of the canvas. Whether a direct representation or an oblique reference to nature, the aesthetic components of line, space and color allow for the immense possibilities of the imagination and a nod to our shared commonality of human experience.

Brian Rutenberg says, “I do one thing. Every painting I make begins and ends with the same image, a tree trunk and its shadow. That physical marking of location, a tree and its shadow say: ‘This is here.’ By paying attention and drawing them in great detail with pencil on paper, I respond: ‘I am here.’ I’ve never needed a position because I have a place. I don’t paint my native South Carolina, I manufacture a place and South Carolina becomes it.”