“I believe there is an inherent beauty in the experience of creating small works that require intimate interactions. It is in these mediums, I find an innate intimacy in creating miniature work. “Between Romanticism & Realism, within the mediums of intaglio & painting, hope resides in my work’s ideas & themes. The BBAC provides the essential ingredients a healthy community needs: the supportive warmth of friendship, a secure place to grow as an artist, a forum to present creativity, and the integrity and strength to make a difference within the community. Since then, we have interacted with exhibitions, exhibition catalogs, classes, and workshops. My first experience with The BBAC occurred a decade ago on March 5, 2011, to present a workshop. I want to declare a heart-felt ‘Thank You’ to the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center. Sculpted, cast, pressed, or thrown, these ceramic objects represent the desires we chase in the hope of capturing satisfaction. These are the tools I use to build narratives and fabricate impossible consumer products out of clay. My mind prefers graphics, headlines, logos, body copy, photos, illustrations, taglines and any other marketing tool to express my creative thoughts. Forty years of working in the marketing community has saturated and skewed my aesthetic away from traditional art expression. Past Due – slab-built porcelain, Raku fired, reductionĪdvertising has recalibrated my brain. Her (detail) – slab-built & thrown stoneware, press mold porcelain, Raku fired, reduction Please phone for more details: 248.644.0866 Note: Price ranges for Fisher’s work – Bottles start $90 small slab forms, $110-$130 plates, $125 framed potsherds, $125. Brian received an Honorary Doctorate Degree from the College of Charleston where he delivered the 2018 commencement address.īrian lives and works in New York City with his wife Kathryn and their two children. His new monograph, A Little Long Time, published by Forum Gallery in 2019 is also an Amazon bestseller. Brian’s book, Clear Seeing Place, was released in October 2016 and was an Amazon #1 bestseller. Radius Books published a full color monograph in 2008. His popular YouTube videos “Brian Rutenberg Studio Visits” are viewed daily by people all over the world. Rutenberg’s paintings are included in such museum collections as Yale University Art Gallery, The Butler Institute of American Art, Bronx Museum of Art, Peabody Essex Museum of Art, Greenville County Museum of Art, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, South Carolina State Museum, and many others. He is a Fulbright Scholar, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, a Basil Alkazzi USA Award recipient, an Irish Museum of Modern Art visiting artist program participant, and has had over two hundred and fifty exhibitions throughout North America. Widely considered to be one of the finest American painters of his generation, Brian Rutenberg has spent forty years honing a distinctive method of compressing the rich color and form of his native coastal South Carolina into complex landscape paintings that imbue material reality with a deep sense of place.īrian received his BFA in 1987 from the College of Charleston and his MFA in 1989 from the School of Visual Arts, New York. © Brian Rutenberg, courtesy of Forum Gallery, New York NY CLICK HERE to watch a video prepared by Rutenberg for this exhibit. Brian Rutenberg: Pine, Palm & River Sponsored by Andrea & Ely Tama + Annie & Glenn VanGelderen CLICK HERE to view the show virtually. “As Michiganders crawl out of the winter and the Covid-19 pandemic (be it as slow as it is), we are greeted by the BBAC exhibitions that make it worth our time for a visit.” Read the April 3 Detroit Art Review commentary of the Rutenberg & Fisher exhibits – click here. CLICK HERE for more images & awards.ĬLICK HERE for more images & complete list of artists in the exhibit. Here is a sampling (click each image for larger view). This annual, favorite exhibit features artwork in a variety of media by BBAC adult students – more than 160 pieces. When looking at the variety of ceramics, jewelry, and textiles I look for inventiveness and craftsmanship as well.” ~ Claudia Shepard, Juror IMPACT (presentation ) -what draws me in to look more carefully at the formal elements that carry the intention or concept- that is whether acrylic, oil or mixed media-realistic or abstract composition, balance, range of value relationships as well as spatial relationships and, of course, craftsmanship, in the expressive processes are all part of my considerations when looking at each work. With so many entries, I tried to be very thoughtful about criteria I use in looking at each of your works. “CONGRATULATIONS to all those who entered this show of great variety, meaning and beauty. 2021 Exhibitions January 29-MaCURRENT STUDENT WORKS COMPETITION / Claudia Shepard, Juror
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