LOS ANGELES, CA.- Los Angeles' longest established gallery venue,
Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, has announced that after 37 years at its La Brea Avenue location, its gallery building has come under new ownership, requiring the gallery to find a new location. An art dealer for more than 45 years, Jack Rutberg moved onto La Brea Avenue in 1981. The gallery is internationally noted for its exhibitions and many educational programs including lectures by noteworthy art world personages - artists, art historians, critics, and composers.
Since its inaugural exhibition featuring Arshile Gorky and Hans Burkhardt, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts has featured a continuous program of significant modern and contemporary art exhibitions, many of which have traveled to museums internationally. The gallery has been a mainstay of L.A.s evolving cultural landscape and continues to be a source for collectors, other dealers and museums.
According to the Rutberg gallery, its intentions to announce a new location are delayed by difficulty in finding its new home in L.A.'s overheated real estate environment.
Quoting Jack Rutberg: While theres sadness in having to close this venue, I so greatly appreciate that nearly four decades in one location is an extraordinary achievement in L.A., and certainly a gift to me. With its grand galleries and intimate spaces, I have been able to present exhibitions that unfold in ways that have engaged audiences all these many years. Our current and final exhibition in this venue, Jordi Alcaraz: Defying Boundaries which ends August 31, seems so poignantly appropriate as these works deal with ephemeral dimensions that open windows to possibilities with such unique elegance. And so, I look forward to our own next and exciting dimensions. The search for a new home continues.
The Rutberg gallerys current exhibition, Jordi Alcaraz: Defying Boundaries, extends through August 31. The gallery's move will take place sometime in September.