b'TANGOTangoWatercolor8 x 30 inchesIn case:Small pencil sketches and watercolors on paperIn2009RuttenbergdecidedtomakeapaintingoftheFirstpresentedintheexhibitionofRuttenbergsCentral tango dancers who gather for a milonga at twilight everyPark works at the Museum of the City of New York in 2013, SaturdaynightduringthesummeraroundJohnQuincyTango captivated viewers, who stood transfixed for the full Adams Wards 1872 statue of Shakespeare in Central Park.ten-minuteplaytimeofthefinishedvideo-painting,en-Shemadehundredsofpencilsketchesandwatercolorhanced with a soundtrack of classic tango vocals. One of the studiesonthespotfromthesidelines,obligedtoworksongs was sung by Ruttenbergs late dear friend, acclaimed from the bordering bushes and supplemented these myr- fashion designer Oscar de la Renta. Leonard Cohens Im iad studies with videos of the dancers to capture all theYour Man, (1988) accompanies the final section of the vid-various rhythmic and passionate body languages. Teemingeo overlay, featuring Ms. Columbia (the late Osvaldo Gomez with embraced couples, the festive scene is reminiscentof Queens, New York). Indeed, the enthusiastic reception of of Renoirs masterpiece, Dance at the Moulin de la Galette,Tango during the 2013 exhibition seemingly bolstered Rut-1876 (Muse dOrsay, Paris), transposed to twentieth-cen- tenbergs already longstanding determination to integrate tury New York City. As she resolved her painting, measuringthe observations she recorded in videos with manually ren-50 x 92 inches, from her sketches, at some point Ruttenbergdered representations of the same subject into an innova-projected her videos onto the painting as an experiment,tive fully orchestrated multi-media art form all her own.like a semi-transparent moving collage element or a mon-tage of painting and film. The strange new beauty of theLeft to right:combined techniques was an important breakthrough forTango Collage with Telephone PagesWatercolor, paper collage Ruttenbergs art and made her aware of her advanced role20 x 17 1/4 inches in contemporary mixed media art.Tango SketchesPencil24 x 19 inches 60 61'