Donnamaria Bruton

 

 Donnamaria Bruton (1954 - 2012) was a painter and faculty member at the Rhode Island School of Design, known for her mixed media paintings and collages.
Bruton's style, described by The Providence Journal as "a loose free-flowing style.... but with a strong realistic streak," makes use of her drawing, painting and collage skills.Many of her collages employ mundane objects as the key to getting at a deeper memory or concept.Her first solo exhibit was in 1993 in Austin, Texas, and was well-received.
"Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Donnamaria Bruton grew up in Detroit, and graduated from Michigan State University in 1976 where she earned her BFA in Graphic Design.  After graduation, Bruton continued her art career by studying art with her uncle, painter Edward Loper, Sr.  in Wilmington, Delaware.  During this time,  Bruton often visited the collection of art in the famous Barnes Foundation to study the collection.  Founded by Albert C. Barnes in 1922, the collection holds some of the most seminal works by Matisse, Cézanne, Renoir and Modigliani as well as important examples of African sculpture.  Bruton's entree to the Barnes resulted in a lifelong reverence for the work of Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse and are among Bruton's greatest influences along with abstract painter Cy Twombly.
In 1993, she joined the Painting Department as Professor at the Rhode Island School of Design.  Donnamaria Bruton's work has been included in numerous one-person and group exhibitions throughout the United States, including an early solo exhibition at Woman and Their Work, Austin, Texas as well as exhibiting abroad in Canada, Japan, France and Korean Biennial.  Donnamaria Bruton's work is in the permanent collection of the Black Studies Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, Newport Art Museum, RISD Museum, Yale University Art Gallery and many private collections."(cadetompkinsprojects.com)

 

Rosalie Gascoigne

 

 Rosalie Gascoigne  (1917 –1999) was a New Zealand-born Australian sculptor and assemblage artist. She showed at the Venice Biennale in 1982, becoming the first female artist to represent Australia there. In 1994 she was awarded the Order of Australia for her services to the arts. Rosalie Gascoigne is renowned for her sculptural assemblages of great clarity, simplicity and poetic power. Using natural or manufactured objects, sourced from collecting forays, that evoke the lyrical beauty of the Monaro region of New South Wales, her work radically reformulated the ways in which the Australian landscape is perceived. During the many lonely years spent raising her three children, Gascoigne found solace by making natural assemblages first via traditional flower arranging then later with the rigorous Japanese art form Sogetsu Ikebana. Her work in this medium was outstanding, earning praise from Japanese master and founder of the Sogetsu School of Ikebana, Sofu Teshigahara. Nevertheless, by the late 1960s, she had become dissatisfied with the limitations of the medium and started experimenting first with small scrap iron sculptures and later wooden boxed assemblages, all composed of materials she found while on scavenging expeditions in the fierce, sunburnt landscape of Australia. While the Australian landscape was initially a shocking change from the damp green hills of her familiar New Zealand, by this time, she had come to love the "boundless space and solitude" of her new home. Much of her art reflects this, though some also harks back to her roots in New Zealand.

 

 

Dieter Roth - Conceptual Art

"Dieter Roth was a German-Swiss Conceptual artist. Best known for his use of biodegradable foodstuffs, he created large-scale installations and sculptures that incorporated cheese, chocolate, and sugar, lending oppressive smells to his exhibitions. Blurring the line between process and product, Roth embraced accidents, mutation, and mutability in his finished works. Born on April 21, 1930 in Hannover, Germany, he gained asylum in Bern, Switzerland during World War II as a teenager. Influenced by formal exercises in design, commercial art, and the works of Paul Klee, Roth employed typography and geometric elements to produced books during the 1950s. Moving to the United States in 1964, Roth taught at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, where he famously held classes in which he refused to tell students how to do anything. By the late 1980s, he was major figure in the international art world, representing Switzerland at the 1992 Venice Biennale and, later that same year, the subject of a large-scale retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. In the later years of his life, he collaborated extensively with his son, Björn Roth, notably including his Solo Szenen (Solo Scenes) (1997–1998), a video installation intimately documenting the last year of the senior Roth’s life as he succumbed to illness. He died on June 5, 1998, in Basel, Switzerland at the age of 68. In 2013, Hauser & Wirth New York held a major exhibition of the artist’s work, focusing on his collaborations with other artists including Richard Hamilton, Emmett Williams, Arnulf Rainer, and Hermann Nitsch. Today, his works are hled in the collections of the Tate Gallery in London, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Hamburger Banhof in Berlin, among others."(.artnet.com)

Gerard Rutteman

“Prospect”, collage of monoprint and journal (2019)

Mixed - Media

Drager Meurtant.