Richard Rutner
Born 1946 in the Bronx, New York
I am a painter, printmaker and sculptor currently living and working in Austin, Texas. As an art student, I discovered the Surrealists and adopted many of their techniques such as automatic drawing, decalcomania, and frottage to produce a vocabulary of forms in my works. My travels to Asia, Europe, Mexico, Canada, and across the U.S., in particular the American southwest, have inspired several bodies of work including mask images and surreal landscapes. I have exhibited in galleries and museums in the U.S. and abroad, including Vorpal Gallery, NYC, Gallery Varisella, Nuremberg, Germany, Nassau County Museum of Fine Arts, NY, and Marfa Open Arts, Marfa,TX. My work has been shown in numerous group exhibitions also including East/West Austin Studio Tours, Guadalupe Arts Center/Austin, Contemporary Art Museum of Houston/Members Gallery, and several National Drawing Association “Selected Works” touring exhibitions. More recently, my work has been included in Verklempt!-the magazine of Jewish art and literature, “Window Project in Public Spaces”, Berlin, Germany, Jewish Art House, NYC, and the Dell Jewish Community Center of Austin. I attended the School of Visual Arts, NYC and received my MFA from Tyler School of Art/Temple University in Philadelphia and Rome, Italy. I have worked as a painting instructor, freelance curator, and visual arts consultant, and was Coordinator of Cultural Arts for the Town of Hempstead, NY for 30 years before moving to Austin.
