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Ephraim Rubenstein: The Rilke Series, University Of Richmond Museums
Ephraim Rubenstein: The Rilke Series, University Of Richmond Museums
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Ephraim Rubenstein: The Rilke Series
January 28 to February 27, 1994
Marsh Art Gallery
Introduction: Rilke and Rubenstein
The first time I met Ephraim Rubenstein, some eight years ago, and looked at his early paintings I immediately sensed a powerful poetic quality coming out of his paintbrush. This ambitious exhibition not only confirms my initial feeling, but surpasses anything I could have thought of at that time. It is rare these days to find a young artist inspired, not by pop culture or the mass media, but by a classic of literature. I find it interesting and refreshing to …
Francis Cunningham: Painting And Drawing, University Of Richmond Museums
Francis Cunningham: Painting And Drawing, University Of Richmond Museums
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Francis Cunningham: Painting and Drawing
March 14 to April 5, 1989
Marsh Art Gallery
Introduction
Realism is an attitude toward life that affirms the beauty and significance of the visible world. Realism starts outside with the surfaces of things and travels inward to their meaning. Everything in this process has to do with selection. What has the object told a particular artist about itself, about its relationship to other objects and to the surrounding space?
In life one takes in things at a glance, but the artist looks at an object for hours, weeks, months, even years. Premier coup painting …
Mark Rhodes/Ephraim Rubenstein: Sculpture, Painting, And Drawing, University Of Richmond Museums
Mark Rhodes/Ephraim Rubenstein: Sculpture, Painting, And Drawing, University Of Richmond Museums
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Mark Rhodes/Ephraim Rubenstein: Sculpture, Painting, and Drawing
November 29 to December 18, 1988
Marsh Art Gallery
Introduction
The art of Ephraim Rubenstein and Mark Rhodes is art about the human figure, born out of personal experience and nourished by the great tradition of the figure in western culture. Indeed, the persistence of the human form in art from prehistoric times into the 20th Century, demonstrates not only the infinite variety of interpretations and expressions possible through the body, but our consistent need for self-realization and re-creation through the figure. The particular pieces in this show convey a remarkable cumulative visual …