Artist StatementThe formal compositional elements of Shape and Placement combine with the lyrical power of Color to capture the anima of places in nature to which I am drawn. On paper, I seek to integrate the Ascetic with the Lyrical: the spare intimacy of a Japanese tea room (where Balance is not synonymous with Symmetry) converges with the untamed American wilderness. In music, Bach Sonatas for Unaccompanied Violin merge with the Brahms String Quintet No. 2 in G major, Opus 111. These are my influences.
Try This
Take two magnets, one in each hand. Close your eyes and slowly move the same-pole surfaces toward each other. Can you feel the point at which they start to repel (influence) one another? That is the compositional distance between two objects.
A Story
One evening, while working on a landscape of a tall grass field: aha! the wrist motion I was making as I stroked each blade of grass into the picture was the same motion I made years earlier with the violin bow. Skills, vocabularies of technique, fold in on themselves in a spiral through time, like geological uplifting and folding.
Biography
Ivy Rutzky resides in New York City, from which she escapes to those natural places whenever possible. A classically trained violinist and painter, her focus as an artist has consistently been with nature and landscape. This quest has led her explorations through oil painting, sculpture, and dance, prior to working with pastels.
Recent Exhibitions
2007 Mehu Gallery Two Person w/ Patricia Wynne, NY, NY
2006 Wildberry Lodge, Asheville, NC
2005 Mehu Gallery, Equus, NY, NY
2004 Ana Valentine Gallery, Livingston, MT
2004 Lazy K Bar Ranch, the Crazy Mountains,MT, In-My-Cabin Show
2004 P.F. Galleries, Two Person
2003 Mehu Gallery, Flight, NY, NY
2003 Lazy K Bar Ranch, the Crazy Mountains, MT, In-my-Cabin Show
2002 P.F. Galleries, The Best of the Best, Clawson, MI
2002 Iandor Gallery, Newark, NJ
2002 Center Galleries, College for Creative Studies, It Goes Like This, Instruction Drawings from Gilbert &Lila Silverman Collection, Detroit, MI
2002 La Superica, Sag Harbor, NY One Person
2002 Germaine Keller Gallery, Garrison, NY
2002 P.F. Galleries, Clawson, MI Two Person
2002 Lazy K Bar Ranch, the Crazy Mountains, MT, In-the Klepac�s-Cabin Show
2001 Verso Plus, Inc. NY, NY One Person
2002 Mehu Gallery, Tiger Tiger, NY, NY
2001 Cass Caf�, Detroit, MI
2001 Grey Gallery, Detroit, MI
2001 Iandor Gallery, Newark, NJ
2000 Urban Architecture, NY, NY
Past Selected Exhibitions
Berry College, Berry, GA One Person
�Threshold� performance, NY, NY One Person
�Threshold� performance, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI One Person
Feigenson/Rosenstein Gallery, Detroit MI One Person
�Spirit/Icon,� Baca Downtown, Brooklyn, NY
Sculpture commissioned by Simone Forti for dance performance, Austria & NY
�Artists Invite Artists,�The New Museum, NY, NY
55 Mercer Gallery, NY, NY
�Detroit Area Artists: Works in Progress, Part II�, Detroit Institute of Arts 11 Individual Shows, Detroit, MI
Willis Gallery, Detroit, MI Two Person
Education
MFA Wayne State University
BFA University of New Mexico
Penland School