b'CENTRAL PARKIn the mid-1980s, Ruttenberg found a studio just steps from Central Park. The idea of painting in the Park held no special interest until walking through it one day, she was struck by the diversity of human interaction juxtaposed with the nat-ural beauty of its surroundings and became inspired. Ever since, the Park has been her primary subject. By around 2008 Ruttenberg was a Park regular, working out-of-doors in Impressionist fashion every day to capture the landscape looking south across the Sheep Meadow to the skyline along 59 thStreet, a subject that she has already rendered in 52 enormous watercolor studies that are the basis for acrylics and oils of the same scale developed in her studio. These variations on a theme in concept extend Czannes and Monets serial paintings of the same land-scape, each time revealed anew.Stand Clear of the Closing Doors, 2019 Oil, ink jet print collage and mirrored glass on canvas with embedded video screens and neon frame109 3/4 x 180 x 5 inches16 17'