Ruth Weisberg: Reflections Through Time, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts: Los Angeles, 90036, 2015, 70 pp.

Ruth Weisberg: Reflections Through Time, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts: Los Angeles, 90036, 2015, 70 pp.

     Ruth Weisberg, one of Los Angeles’s most celebrated artists, Reflection Through Time, extends the catalogue of her works shown at her most recent exhibition at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, on the occasion of her receiving the 2015 Printmaker Emeritus Award from the Southern Graphics Council.

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     In this current exhibition, art history takes on extraordinary, if not supernatural form in the painting titled Return (2014) and its related drawings, as Weisberg observed that the primary figure in the masterpiece painting in the Tel Aviv Museum, the self-portrait by Maurycy [sic] Gottlieb, entitled Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur (1878) is a virtual twin of Weisberg’s son, Alfred (better known as the celebrated contemporary musician, Daedelus).

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     Ruth Weisberg is currently a professor at the University of Southern California where, until 2010, she was one of the  longest tenured Deans of the Roski School of Art and Design. Weisberg’s works are included in the permanent collections of over 60 museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York;  Portland Art Museum, Oregon; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, California; Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, California; Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan; Biblioteque Nationale, Paris, France; Rome Institute Nationale per la Grafica, Rome, Italy; et alia.

      Among her numerous honors, citations and awards are the 2009 Women’s Caucus Lifetime Achievement Award; the 1999 College Art Association Distinguished Teaching of Art Award; President, College Art Association; Senior Research Fulbright and Visiting Artist Residency, American Academy, Rome; National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminar; Doctor of Humane Letters, honors cause, Hebrew Unition College, year; One of the Inaugural exhibits, The Los Angeles Women’s Building, .      Weisberg has written more than 60 scholarly articles, critical  reviews, and catalogue essays.

     Since her arrival in Los Angeles in 1969 where she established a home and studio in Ocean Park,  Ruth Weisberg has been a formidable influennce  and mentor to decades of artists in Los Angeles, Santa Monica and Culver City, where she currently resides. Her first major survey exhibition in Los Angeles was in 1979 at the Los Angeles Municipal Att Gallery. Ruth Weisberg has held over 80 solo exhibitions and participated in nearly 200 group exhibitions.

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