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Composition 4/28/2024 Acrylic on paper towels and cardboard

People think I’m prolific but I’m really not. Works get painted over and over again sometimes. Like this one for example. Started off as a memory from Hawaii of a Luau where there was a fire performance.

The more I worked on it the more it felt wrong or colonialist or something. Then I felt dumb for doing it, then dumb for not doing it, and so it goes. In the end it didn’t fit with anything I care about in painting so it got absorbed into something new.

Anyway that’s the story with this thing.

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Stress Builds Character-Dystopia. Acrylic, Carandache Pencil, and Graphite on Strathmore Drawing Paper.

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“obliterator like a spotlight” Composition 4/14/2024 title text from @caroltaylorkearney acrylic on cardboard and paper towels glued to canvas stretchers. #artepovera #artbrut #situationistinternational #CoBrA #automatism #abstractexperssionism #actionpainting #artinformel #brutalistaesthetics #modernism #zombieformalism #whitemalescrawling #nathanrutkowski #nathanrutkowskiartist

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Excerpts from a six page comic titled "How to Look" published in Arts & Architecture, January 1947

By Ad Reinhardt

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These three large cardboard paintings had warped and got them straightened out thanks to James Schlictling who did the backing (2nd photo is his). I’m planning on showing them at the Merchantville Art Walk May 10th. Come out and see them in person! They’re hard to photograph!

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Composition 4/7/2024. Acrylic on cardboard paper towels and recycled shopping bag.

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Composition 4/5/2024. Acrylic on cardboard and plastic on strathmore drawing paper 18 x 24 inches.

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Angel of Death, Composition 3/18/2024. Acrylic on cardboard, plastic single use bag, and paper towels.

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Composition 2/24/2024. Acrylic on plastic and matboard on large plastic trash bag. No brushwork involved all pouring flinging dripping

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Composition 2/27/2024. Acrylic on paper towel, gift wrap, newsprint, coloring book pages on industrial trash bag.

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Composition made while listening to Barret Avener’s podcast “Contain” episode on the History of Volcanoes and exiting out of Social Media.

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Composition 1/30/2024 for Ai Weiwei

This is not AI and it is not meaningless. The hand, mind, and experience brings this work into existence. There is no phrase given to a machine to spits this work out. You could look through an encyclopedia of the 100 + years of western abstraction and see similarities. More important to look for where I mess up.

A computer gives answers, not questions.

#automatism #abstraction #artepovera #process #actionpainting #artinformel #gesturalabstraction #markmaking #abstractexpressionism #abstractart #abstractpainting #nonobjectivepainting #nathanrutkowski #nathanrutkowskiartist

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Composition 1/1/2024 New Years Day lunch at the Legacy Diner. Acrylic on plastic bags, paper diner placemat and cardboard 37.5 x 38 inches.

#artepovera #reducereuserecycle♻️ #painting #concettospaziale #spatialism #automatism #collage #assemblage #gesturalabstraction #brush #brushpainting #brushdrawing #easelpainting #postmodern #postmodernism #nathanrutkowski #nathanrutkowskiartist

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Composition 12/31/2023 Acrylic on cardboard

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Composition 12/17/2023 using photographs of Polynesian Art from a Museum Publication. Acrylic on cardboard plastic bag and magazine pages. 37 X 37 inches.

When I decided to use these images I had a lot of hesitation with questions like “are they mine to use?” “Who am I to do this work?” “Why this type of work? “Why this style”. “Don’t you need to ask permission to use this imagery and if so who do I ask?”

Ultimately, as an artist you just need to work and it’s up to whomever powers that be whether they show it.

#colonialism #culturalappropriation #automatism #polynesianart #easelpainting #modernism #postmodernism #altermodern #artepovera #abstractexpressionism #artinformel #brushpainting #brushdrawing #markmaking #collage #nathanrutkowski #nathanrutkowskiartist

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Composition 12/5/2023. Acrylic on Cardboard