Selected as one of the Best Books of 2017 by Kirkus Reviews 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. 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 residency programme participant, and he has had over two hundred exhibitions throughout North America and in Europe. Rutenberg's paintings are in private collections all over the world and are included in such museum collections as the Butler Institute of American Art, Yale University Art Gallery, the Bronx Museum of Arts, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Peabody Essex Museum of Art, Greenville County Museum of Art, and many others. His popular YouTube series "Brian Rutenberg Studio Visits" is viewed daily by people all over the world. He lives and works in New York with his wife Kathryn, and their two children. "An original and stimulating memoir that takes readers into the mind and heart of an artist." -Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Connect with Brian on his websites at www.brianrutenbergart.com or www.brianrutenbergbooks.com You can also find Brian on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/thomgains1727 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brian.rutenberg twitter: https://twitter.com/brianrutenberg Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brianrutenberg/
