Shaping of America: Medium-Specificity as Passive-Aggressive Resistance, 2020
Although endless contention over what laws, procedures, and principles define this nation forms part of the American blueprint, Carrie Patterson and the other artists in this exhibition cannot have known […]
Catalogue Essay for “32-Degrees Latitude”, California Museum of Art Thousand Oaks, 2017
By: Jennifer Li, Contributing Writer to Art in America
The nineteenth century English landscape painter Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) purportedly tied himself to the mast of a ship during a […]
“Afterglow” Catalogue Essay, 2015
I’ll Know It When I See It: Thoughts on Rebecca Rutstein’s “Afterglow”
By Gerard Brown
When Rebecca Rutstein mounted her 2013 exhibit “Deep Rift” at Bridgette Mayer Gallery, a seismic shift was […]
“Precipice” Catalogue Essay, 2009
In the paintings for “Precipice”, Rebecca Rutstein combines numerous ways of envisioning the world – from topographical wireframe imagery evoking computer models, to Japanese wood blocks, to isometric drawings of […]
“Abyss” Essay at Philadelphia International Airport, 2008
Philadelphia artist Rebecca Rutstein has developed a visual language within her paintings as a means to interpret as well as express the fantastic, mysterious, and often, unperceivable realms of nature.
In […]
“Finish/Line” Exhibition Essay, 2007
In the traditional interplay between drawing and painting, drawing has been associated with artistic thinking, a way station between the interior impulse and the finished work, a linear figuring-out of […]
“Abyss” Catalogue Essay, 2007
“No man is an island,” so the saying goes. Among the epiphanies revealed in Rebecca Rutstein’s art is the realization that no island is an island, either – it is […]
“Ebb & Flow” Catalogue Essay, 2005
It is very difficult to make a painting about love.
While Rebecca Rutstein’s paintings do not immediately appear to be about the drama and pain of personal relationships, the titles lead […]
Pew Fellowship Catalogue Essay, 2004
With their maps and legends, wire-frame forms and double helixes, volcanic cross-sections and strings of numbers, Rebecca Rutstein’s paintings present a daunting array of information to the viewer. That each […]
“Love & Subduction” Catalogue Essay, 2004
“Love and Subduction,” the title of Rebecca Rutstein’s exhibition, is a clever combination of words that speak to the overriding theme of this group of new paintings: narrative conveyed through […]