Rebecca Rutstein Works Acquired by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum
Bridgette Mayer Gallery in Philadelphia is pleased to announce that The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum has added two Rebecca Rutstein works from 2017 to their collection. The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is a museum and art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1805 and is the first and oldest art museum and art school in the United States. Bridgette Mayer commented: “Rebecca and I are thrilled to have her works grace the collection of PAFA’s museum and be able to be shared by a broader audience. Rebecca has been working and exhibiting in Philadelphia and beyond for twenty years and this is a very exciting moment for her.” For more information on Rutstein’s work please visit www.bridgettemayergallery.com
Artist/Scientist Collaborative Workshop on San Juan Island, WA
Funded by the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington, Sept 19 – 25, 2017
Rutstein is invited to be a participant in an Artist/Scientist Collaborative Workshop called “Ocean Memory” at University of Washington’s, Friday Harbor Laboratories, on San Juan Island off the Pacific Coast.
The collective goal will be to reach across wildly divergent scientific and artistic practices to broaden understanding and awareness of all ways in which the ocean, especially the deep ocean, may retain and express memory.
The program has been developed by:
Tim Broderick / Wright State Research Institute
Daniel Kohn / Artist, Kohn Workshop
Alyson Santoro / Marine Microbiology, University of California at Santa Barbara
Jody Deming / Marine Microbiology, University of Washington
Margot Knight / Director, Djerassi Artist Residency
NY Hall of Science, New York, NY
“Ocean” Exhibition
Sept 16, 2017 – Feb 28, 2018
Opening reception, Sun Oct 1, 3-5pm
This international exhibition organized by Art & Science Collaborations, Inc., asks artists and scientists to help create a new public perception of OCEAN by sharing creative visions of our deep connections to her, the health issues she faces and/or possible solutions, and feelings she inspires in us.
Bishop Museum, Honolulu, HI
Artist at Sea: Traveling Exhibition with Schmidt Ocean Institute
August 29–September 29, 2017
Work created on the Falkor Research Vessel is on view at the Bishop Museum following exhibitions at the San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival, Monterrey Bay Aquarium, and America’s Cup in Bermuda. The exhibition will continue to Newport, Rhode Island in October, and then to Scripps Ocean Institute in San Diego.
https://www.bishopmuseum.org/artists-at-sea/
Solo Exhibition at Cornell University
Rebecca Rutstein: Convergence
August 18–September 29, 2017
John Hartell Gallery
Cornell University
College of Architecture, Art & Planning
129 Sibley Dome
Ithaca, NY 14853
Reception Friday, September 15, 5 p.m.
Artist talk at reception
In 2015, Philadelphia-based artist Rebecca Rutstein (B.F.A. ’93) was invited to join scientists on the Nautilus exploration vessel for an expedition aimed at sea mapping the ocean floor from the Galápagos Islands to California. This cross-disciplinary exchange between scientists and artists is something Rutstein deeply values. For nearly 20 years, Rutstein has completed site-specific art residencies in geologically dynamic environments including Iceland, Hawaii, the Canadian Rockies, and Vermont. She returned to sea with the research vessel Falkor in 2016 to explore uncharted territory from Vietnam to Guam. While at sea and back in her studio, Rutstein has worked with high-resolution mapping data of the ocean floor collected by the ships’ multibeam sonar technology.
For Rutstein, geologic forces — from gradual erosion to violent upheaval — are powerful metaphors for life experiences and the ebbs and flows of relationships. Her paintings become mappings where scale is shifted and obscured, articulating fractal patterns found in nature. Rutstein constructs spaces through juxtapositions — micro and macro, graphic and atmospheric, organic and geometric, positive and negative, and linear and solid. Her work explores tensions created by these polarities.Convergence is a survey of Rutstein’s recent work that explores geometric abstraction inspired by science, data, and maps.
Rutstein’s interest in geology was initially sparked at Cornell University, where she took a geology course that shaped her artistic pursuits long after her time there. Seeing and learning firsthand about Ithaca’s exceptional exposure of sedimentary rocks carved by glacial and erosive forces was profoundly inspiring. It wasn’t until years after pursuing her M.F.A. that she saw a pathway to incorporate geologic themes into her paintings.
Rutstein’s work spans painting, installation, sculpture, and public art. She has exhibited widely in the U.S. and has received numerous grants including a Pew Fellowship in the Arts and an Independence Foundation Fellowship. Rutstein has garnered recent attention through interviews and features on NPR, Huffington Post, and Vice magazine, and her works can be found in public collections including Johns Hopkins Hospital, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Fox Chase Cancer Center, and Temple University. Rutstein holds a B.F.A. from Cornell University and an M.F.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and is represented by Bridgette Mayer Gallery in Philadelphia and Zane Bennett Contemporary/Form and Concept in Santa Fe.
Rutstein Selected as the Featured Artist in Exhibition at California Museum of Art Thousand Oaks
32 Degrees Latitude
June 15-Aug 5th, 2017
Reception: Thursday, June 15, 4:30-8pm
Artist Talk, Sat June 17, 1:30-2:30pm
California Museum of Art Thousand Oaks
1948 Thousand Oaks Blvd., Thousand Oaks, CA 91362
(Excerpt from Press Release)
The California Museum of Art Thousand Oaks (CMATO) proudly announces the winners from our Inaugural International Juried Art Exhibition – 32 Degrees Latitude. Out of hundreds of applications received from around the globe, only three artists were selected to exhibit at CMATO this summer.
Featured Artist: Rebecca Rutstein
CMATO is honored to showcase Rebecca Rutstein, a Philadelphia-based artist whose works are based on her interest in technology, geology, maps and the undercurrents that continually shape and reshape the world. Her large scale landscape sculptures and paintings are inspired by her prestigious residency aboard two scientific naval exploration vessels that traveled the world. From these missions, Rutstein has mined the satellite and sonar data to present the wild, unbounded grandeur of the natural world with a technological sublimity that grasps at the infinite possibilities suggested by computers. Jennifer Li, Art in America contributor, writes in the exhibition catalogue,
“With her unique background and experience on board the Nautilus and the Falkor, Rutstein brought back reports not of measurable figures, but paintings and sculptures that give form to the nebulous enigma of the sea and its terrain, inspiring and propelling the scientific community and general public with visual poetry and portraits of the Sublime.”
Read the Essay by Jennifer Li, Contributing Writer to Art in America
Catalogue available
for more information, contact tgreenwood@cmato.org
Rebecca Rutstein Works Acquired by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum
Bridgette Mayer Gallery in Philadelphia is pleased to announce that The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum has added two Rebecca Rutstein works from 2017 to their collection. The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is a museum and art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1805 and is the first and oldest art museum and art school in the United States. Bridgette Mayer commented: “Rebecca and I are thrilled to have her works grace the collection of PAFA’s museum and be able to be shared by a broader audience. Rebecca has been working and exhibiting in Philadelphia and beyond for twenty years and this is a very exciting moment for her.” For more information on Rutstein’s work please visit www.bridgettemayergallery.com
Artist/Scientist Collaborative Workshop on San Juan Island, WA
Funded by the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington, Sept 19 – 25, 2017
Rutstein is invited to be a participant in an Artist/Scientist Collaborative Workshop called “Ocean Memory” at University of Washington’s, Friday Harbor Laboratories, on San Juan Island off the Pacific Coast.
The collective goal will be to reach across wildly divergent scientific and artistic practices to broaden understanding and awareness of all ways in which the ocean, especially the deep ocean, may retain and express memory.
The program has been developed by:
Tim Broderick / Wright State Research Institute
Daniel Kohn / Artist, Kohn Workshop
Alyson Santoro / Marine Microbiology, University of California at Santa Barbara
Jody Deming / Marine Microbiology, University of Washington
Margot Knight / Director, Djerassi Artist Residency
NY Hall of Science, New York, NY
“Ocean” Exhibition
Sept 16, 2017 – Feb 28, 2018
Opening reception, Sun Oct 1, 3-5pm
This international exhibition organized by Art & Science Collaborations, Inc., asks artists and scientists to help create a new public perception of OCEAN by sharing creative visions of our deep connections to her, the health issues she faces and/or possible solutions, and feelings she inspires in us.
Bishop Museum, Honolulu, HI
Artist at Sea: Traveling Exhibition with Schmidt Ocean Institute
August 29–September 29, 2017
Work created on the Falkor Research Vessel is on view at the Bishop Museum following exhibitions at the San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival, Monterrey Bay Aquarium, and America’s Cup in Bermuda. The exhibition will continue to Newport, Rhode Island in October, and then to Scripps Ocean Institute in San Diego.
https://www.bishopmuseum.org/artists-at-sea/
Solo Exhibition at Cornell University
Rebecca Rutstein: Convergence
August 18–September 29, 2017
John Hartell Gallery
Cornell University
College of Architecture, Art & Planning
129 Sibley Dome
Ithaca, NY 14853
Reception Friday, September 15, 5 p.m.
Artist talk at reception
In 2015, Philadelphia-based artist Rebecca Rutstein (B.F.A. ’93) was invited to join scientists on the Nautilus exploration vessel for an expedition aimed at sea mapping the ocean floor from the Galápagos Islands to California. This cross-disciplinary exchange between scientists and artists is something Rutstein deeply values. For nearly 20 years, Rutstein has completed site-specific art residencies in geologically dynamic environments including Iceland, Hawaii, the Canadian Rockies, and Vermont. She returned to sea with the research vessel Falkor in 2016 to explore uncharted territory from Vietnam to Guam. While at sea and back in her studio, Rutstein has worked with high-resolution mapping data of the ocean floor collected by the ships’ multibeam sonar technology.
For Rutstein, geologic forces — from gradual erosion to violent upheaval — are powerful metaphors for life experiences and the ebbs and flows of relationships. Her paintings become mappings where scale is shifted and obscured, articulating fractal patterns found in nature. Rutstein constructs spaces through juxtapositions — micro and macro, graphic and atmospheric, organic and geometric, positive and negative, and linear and solid. Her work explores tensions created by these polarities.Convergence is a survey of Rutstein’s recent work that explores geometric abstraction inspired by science, data, and maps.
Rutstein’s interest in geology was initially sparked at Cornell University, where she took a geology course that shaped her artistic pursuits long after her time there. Seeing and learning firsthand about Ithaca’s exceptional exposure of sedimentary rocks carved by glacial and erosive forces was profoundly inspiring. It wasn’t until years after pursuing her M.F.A. that she saw a pathway to incorporate geologic themes into her paintings.
Rutstein’s work spans painting, installation, sculpture, and public art. She has exhibited widely in the U.S. and has received numerous grants including a Pew Fellowship in the Arts and an Independence Foundation Fellowship. Rutstein has garnered recent attention through interviews and features on NPR, Huffington Post, and Vice magazine, and her works can be found in public collections including Johns Hopkins Hospital, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Fox Chase Cancer Center, and Temple University. Rutstein holds a B.F.A. from Cornell University and an M.F.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and is represented by Bridgette Mayer Gallery in Philadelphia and Zane Bennett Contemporary/Form and Concept in Santa Fe.
Rutstein Selected as the Featured Artist in Exhibition at California Museum of Art Thousand Oaks
32 Degrees Latitude
June 15-Aug 5th, 2017
Reception: Thursday, June 15, 4:30-8pm
Artist Talk, Sat June 17, 1:30-2:30pm
California Museum of Art Thousand Oaks
1948 Thousand Oaks Blvd., Thousand Oaks, CA 91362
(Excerpt from Press Release)
The California Museum of Art Thousand Oaks (CMATO) proudly announces the winners from our Inaugural International Juried Art Exhibition – 32 Degrees Latitude. Out of hundreds of applications received from around the globe, only three artists were selected to exhibit at CMATO this summer.
Featured Artist: Rebecca Rutstein
CMATO is honored to showcase Rebecca Rutstein, a Philadelphia-based artist whose works are based on her interest in technology, geology, maps and the undercurrents that continually shape and reshape the world. Her large scale landscape sculptures and paintings are inspired by her prestigious residency aboard two scientific naval exploration vessels that traveled the world. From these missions, Rutstein has mined the satellite and sonar data to present the wild, unbounded grandeur of the natural world with a technological sublimity that grasps at the infinite possibilities suggested by computers. Jennifer Li, Art in America contributor, writes in the exhibition catalogue,
“With her unique background and experience on board the Nautilus and the Falkor, Rutstein brought back reports not of measurable figures, but paintings and sculptures that give form to the nebulous enigma of the sea and its terrain, inspiring and propelling the scientific community and general public with visual poetry and portraits of the Sublime.”
Read the Essay by Jennifer Li, Contributing Writer to Art in America
Catalogue available
for more information, contact tgreenwood@cmato.org
Rebecca Rutstein Works Acquired by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum
Bridgette Mayer Gallery in Philadelphia is pleased to announce that The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum has added two Rebecca Rutstein works from 2017 to their collection. The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is a museum and art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1805 and is the first and oldest art museum and art school in the United States. Bridgette Mayer commented: “Rebecca and I are thrilled to have her works grace the collection of PAFA’s museum and be able to be shared by a broader audience. Rebecca has been working and exhibiting in Philadelphia and beyond for twenty years and this is a very exciting moment for her.” For more information on Rutstein’s work please visit www.bridgettemayergallery.com
Artist/Scientist Collaborative Workshop on San Juan Island, WA
Funded by the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington, Sept 19 – 25, 2017
Rutstein is invited to be a participant in an Artist/Scientist Collaborative Workshop called “Ocean Memory” at University of Washington’s, Friday Harbor Laboratories, on San Juan Island off the Pacific Coast.
The collective goal will be to reach across wildly divergent scientific and artistic practices to broaden understanding and awareness of all ways in which the ocean, especially the deep ocean, may retain and express memory.
The program has been developed by:
Tim Broderick / Wright State Research Institute
Daniel Kohn / Artist, Kohn Workshop
Alyson Santoro / Marine Microbiology, University of California at Santa Barbara
Jody Deming / Marine Microbiology, University of Washington
Margot Knight / Director, Djerassi Artist Residency
NY Hall of Science, New York, NY
“Ocean” Exhibition
Sept 16, 2017 – Feb 28, 2018
Opening reception, Sun Oct 1, 3-5pm
This international exhibition organized by Art & Science Collaborations, Inc., asks artists and scientists to help create a new public perception of OCEAN by sharing creative visions of our deep connections to her, the health issues she faces and/or possible solutions, and feelings she inspires in us.
Bishop Museum, Honolulu, HI
Artist at Sea: Traveling Exhibition with Schmidt Ocean Institute
August 29–September 29, 2017
Work created on the Falkor Research Vessel is on view at the Bishop Museum following exhibitions at the San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival, Monterrey Bay Aquarium, and America’s Cup in Bermuda. The exhibition will continue to Newport, Rhode Island in October, and then to Scripps Ocean Institute in San Diego.
https://www.bishopmuseum.org/artists-at-sea/
Solo Exhibition at Cornell University
Rebecca Rutstein: Convergence
August 18–September 29, 2017
John Hartell Gallery
Cornell University
College of Architecture, Art & Planning
129 Sibley Dome
Ithaca, NY 14853
Reception Friday, September 15, 5 p.m.
Artist talk at reception
In 2015, Philadelphia-based artist Rebecca Rutstein (B.F.A. ’93) was invited to join scientists on the Nautilus exploration vessel for an expedition aimed at sea mapping the ocean floor from the Galápagos Islands to California. This cross-disciplinary exchange between scientists and artists is something Rutstein deeply values. For nearly 20 years, Rutstein has completed site-specific art residencies in geologically dynamic environments including Iceland, Hawaii, the Canadian Rockies, and Vermont. She returned to sea with the research vessel Falkor in 2016 to explore uncharted territory from Vietnam to Guam. While at sea and back in her studio, Rutstein has worked with high-resolution mapping data of the ocean floor collected by the ships’ multibeam sonar technology.
For Rutstein, geologic forces — from gradual erosion to violent upheaval — are powerful metaphors for life experiences and the ebbs and flows of relationships. Her paintings become mappings where scale is shifted and obscured, articulating fractal patterns found in nature. Rutstein constructs spaces through juxtapositions — micro and macro, graphic and atmospheric, organic and geometric, positive and negative, and linear and solid. Her work explores tensions created by these polarities.Convergence is a survey of Rutstein’s recent work that explores geometric abstraction inspired by science, data, and maps.
Rutstein’s interest in geology was initially sparked at Cornell University, where she took a geology course that shaped her artistic pursuits long after her time there. Seeing and learning firsthand about Ithaca’s exceptional exposure of sedimentary rocks carved by glacial and erosive forces was profoundly inspiring. It wasn’t until years after pursuing her M.F.A. that she saw a pathway to incorporate geologic themes into her paintings.
Rutstein’s work spans painting, installation, sculpture, and public art. She has exhibited widely in the U.S. and has received numerous grants including a Pew Fellowship in the Arts and an Independence Foundation Fellowship. Rutstein has garnered recent attention through interviews and features on NPR, Huffington Post, and Vice magazine, and her works can be found in public collections including Johns Hopkins Hospital, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Fox Chase Cancer Center, and Temple University. Rutstein holds a B.F.A. from Cornell University and an M.F.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and is represented by Bridgette Mayer Gallery in Philadelphia and Zane Bennett Contemporary/Form and Concept in Santa Fe.
Rutstein Selected as the Featured Artist in Exhibition at California Museum of Art Thousand Oaks
32 Degrees Latitude
June 15-Aug 5th, 2017
Reception: Thursday, June 15, 4:30-8pm
Artist Talk, Sat June 17, 1:30-2:30pm
California Museum of Art Thousand Oaks
1948 Thousand Oaks Blvd., Thousand Oaks, CA 91362
(Excerpt from Press Release)
The California Museum of Art Thousand Oaks (CMATO) proudly announces the winners from our Inaugural International Juried Art Exhibition – 32 Degrees Latitude. Out of hundreds of applications received from around the globe, only three artists were selected to exhibit at CMATO this summer.
Featured Artist: Rebecca Rutstein
CMATO is honored to showcase Rebecca Rutstein, a Philadelphia-based artist whose works are based on her interest in technology, geology, maps and the undercurrents that continually shape and reshape the world. Her large scale landscape sculptures and paintings are inspired by her prestigious residency aboard two scientific naval exploration vessels that traveled the world. From these missions, Rutstein has mined the satellite and sonar data to present the wild, unbounded grandeur of the natural world with a technological sublimity that grasps at the infinite possibilities suggested by computers. Jennifer Li, Art in America contributor, writes in the exhibition catalogue,
“With her unique background and experience on board the Nautilus and the Falkor, Rutstein brought back reports not of measurable figures, but paintings and sculptures that give form to the nebulous enigma of the sea and its terrain, inspiring and propelling the scientific community and general public with visual poetry and portraits of the Sublime.”
Read the Essay by Jennifer Li, Contributing Writer to Art in America
Catalogue available
for more information, contact tgreenwood@cmato.org