ARTINQUIRY The Art of Ruth Weisberg an 2002 interview Molly Barnes

Chicago-born Ruth Weisberg is an artist who works primarily in painting, lithography, and drawing. According to Drew Stevens, "Ruth Weisberg's art has consistently been figurative and often autobiographical through times when other styles have passed in and out of fashion. These two qualities are like a breath of fresh air at a time when we are accustomed to works of art encompassing huge gestures and global concerns; works that are personal and subtle as Weisberg's require a corresponding sympathy and close attention to the narratives her images imply.
Weisberg's art seems an extension of her life; her personal convictions, her activism in the artworld, and her commitment to her many students reflect the same sort of concerns about the place of the individual in society as does her art, which has consistently examined her own place in the concentric realms of family, society, and history.

The artist Alberto Giacometti (1901 - 1966) emerges as a resonant character in Weisberg's Tandem prints." In the Good Daughter she places her daughter in Giacometti's studio, "with enough realism that I seduce the viewer into my dream."

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