| For more information about this article or gallery, please call the gallery phone number listed in the last line of the article, "For more info..." |
May Issue 2007
Hickory Museum of Art in Hickory, NC, Features Works by Brian Rutenberg
A new exhibition of abstract landscape paintings is on view at the Hickory Museum of Art in Hickory, NC. The exhibit, Brian Rutenberg: RIVERBEND will run through June 17, 2007, in the Museum's Coe and Entrance Galleries.
RIVERBEND is comprised of 32 works, greeting you in the HMA Entrance Gallery with selections that offer insight into Rutenberg's artistic process - works of oil on paper that are studies created for his final pieces. The exhibition then winds up the staircase onto the walls of the second floor Coe Gallery. Rutenberg's immense oil on linen and oil on canvas works (the largest being 63 x 138 inches) energizes the space with vibrant texture, color and design. The Museum is also featuring Rutenberg's latest artistic endeavor printmaking; including examples of his hand-colored etchings, aquatint (a variant etching technique) and a lithograph.
A native of Myrtle Beach, SC, Rutenberg is inspired by the South Carolina Lowcountry and returns to the state annually to sketch. He writes, "The birth of my visual imagination comes from those images down south: the trees, the marshes, the rivers, the color and the light down there."
Rutenberg received his BFA from the College of Charleston in 1987 and went on to earn his MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. In 1997, he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship and studied in Ireland. His work hangs in galleries in NYC, San Francisco, Charlotte and in a host of private collections around the world.
The Hickory Museum of Art is a United Arts
Funded Affiliate of the United Arts Council of Catawba County
and is located in the "SALT Block" Arts & Science
Center of Catawba Valley in Hickory.
For further information check our NC Institutional Gallery
listings, call the Museum at 828/327-8576 or visit (www.HickoryMuseumofArt.org).
Carolina Arts is published monthly by Shoestring Publishing
Company, a subsidiary of PSMG, Inc.
Copyright© 2007 by PSMG, Inc., which published Charleston
Arts from July 1987 - Dec. 1994 and South Carolina Arts
from Jan. 1995 - Dec. 1996. It also publishes Carolina Arts
Online, Copyright© 2007 by PSMG, Inc. All rights reserved
by PSMG, Inc. or by the authors of articles. Reproduction or use
without written permission is strictly prohibited. Carolina
Arts is available throughout North & South Carolina.