NEW | The People’s Park, a sequel and expansion of Janet Ruttenberg’s previous monograph, Gatherings (2013), captures the artist’s monumental engagement with Central Park, bringing together years of graphic and conceptual development, combining a wide array of mediums, processes, and practices.

By Janet Ruttenberg

It is a testament to her indefatigable commitment to not only a place, but to the people that enjoy it. Revolutionizing the grand, if neglected, landscape painting tradition, she mixes paint, print, sound, video, and photography, forming what is truly a unique and unparalleled body of work. While her pratice has clear antecedents in the post-Impressionist tradition of Georges Seurat and Édouard Manet, she supersedes these influences by developing a beautiful and increasingly complex world of both images and the process of image-making itself. In addition to showing over 75 exquisite works, cataloging her unique process, this monograph contains three illuminating scholarly essays, contextualizing and analyzing Ruttenberg’s œuvre, as well as 15 scannable QR codes that allow the viewer to take in the full audiovisual experience of her works.

JANET K. RUTTENBERG, is a visual artist working in New York City. She has broken her intensely guarded privacy only rarely, with a solo exhibition, Picturing Central Park (2013) at the Museum of the City of New York, and its accompanying monograph, Gatherings (2013), as well as Janet Ruttenberg: Beholder (2019) at ArtYard in Frenchtown, New Jersey. This is her second monograph.