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Article: Brian Rutenberg: Forum.
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- March 1, 2009
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BRIAN RUTENBERG
FORUM
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The mural-scale, oil-on-linen abstractions in Brian Rutenberg's 2007-08 "Palmetto" series are as concrete as they are indexical, drawing the viewer's attention to their variously accrued and compiled surfaces as frequently as to the underlying organic topos. A native of South Carolina's Iow country (the region around Charleston), but based for over two decades in New York City, Rutenberg refers in his expansive canvases to a long history of semiabstract landscape painting that extends back through early Cubism, to Cezannean Post-Impressionism and the French Barbizon circle. There is something of ...
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