ARTIST STATEMENT
I search for a feeling of wholeness in my work. My desire is to express my feelings in a private and personal way and yet at the same time to be impartial to the subject. It seems to be a matter of being keenly aware of my feelings and forgetting them at the same time. When it works it gives the feeling that the art has mysteriously created itself.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
A native of New York, Ms. Rutigliano attended Brooklyn College, The Brooklyn Museum Art School with Isaac Soyer, Douglaston Art League with Mr. Edgar A. Whitney, and studied privately with the esteemed Mr. Ernest Crichlow of the Art Students League. Although the artist paints in oil, watercolor is her primary love even insisting upon water-based inks for printmaking.
In the past thirty years that she has been exhibiting nationally, Ms. Rutigliano has had nine one-woman shows in the NY Metropolitan area and has won numerous national awards one of which is the Edgar A. Whitney Award from the American Watercolor Society and Best in Show in the National League of American Pen Women exhibit in Washington, DC. Ms. Rutigliano has been in over 30 national juried shows and has had a one-woman show in Puerto Rico where she lived for several years and taught at the Art Students League in Old San Juan, PR. Her art is in many collections both in the US and abroad. Ms. Rutigliano's work has been noted for its vitality and creativity.