Lehman College Art Gallery is located in the Fine Arts Building
Enter at Gate 5 on Goulden Ave
Annual Gallery programs are supported in part by:
NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation, Edith and Herbert Lehman Foundation, Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, The Charina Foundation, The Keith Haring Foundation, and The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation.
For more than four decades, Brian Rutenberg has made art that enthusiastically embraces the beauty of nature. His works meld the seen and the imagined in masterful combinations of visual grandeur that engage the eye with pleasure and touch the soul with joy. In this exhibition, the artist is inspired by time he has spent in Uptergrove, Ontario, the small village of his musical hero, Glenn Gould’s, summer cottage.
Long "bewitched" by renowned pianist and philosopher Gould, Rutenberg dedicates new works in this exhibition to his mentor and notes:
Gould famously said, "The purpose of art is the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity." The patience and commitment embodied in that statement continue to inform every part of my life and career because it showed me how to craft a life as an artist and, more important, how to protect it.
The spirited optimism reflected in Rutenberg's admiring narrative of Gould and his music, combined with his pilgrim-like nostalgic paean to the place of the pianist's summer cottage, conjures a kind of creative ecstasy that carries through in the chromatically exciting colors used by the artist in creating his dynamic oil on linen paintings.
Striking a balance between the intuitive and the observed, Rutenberg’s exciting work seeks to forge an empathetic connection between the artist and the viewer, capturing the transformative power of art through a deeply personal and abstract lens.
Weather's Wind 7, 2025, Oil on paper, 22.25 x 30 in.
HamptonsFilm and Guild Hall’s Winter Classic series returns!
On March 1, HamptonsFilm Co-ChairAlec Baldwin and Artistic Director David Nugentwill presentAlan J. Pakula’s 1976 landmark political thrillerALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN.
Monday night in midtown Manhattan, HamptonsFilm presented a reading of selected scenes from our 2024Melissa Mathison Award recipientSarah Mokh’s original screenplay Diary of a Muslim Cynic.
