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"Love, Sacred and Profane" serves as the subject and title of an exhibition of paintings, drawings, and monotypes by USC School of Fine Arts' Dean Ruth Weisberg.
Dean Ruth Weisberg extends her explorations of the convergence of art history and personal or collective history through layered images which express both time and memory. This exhibition derives its title from Titian's 16th Century masterpiece: "Amor, Sacro e Profano."
In the centerpiece of the exhibition, Weisberg echoes Titian's painting, but disrupts its Italian landscape by inserting a large scale modern-day couple passionately embraced in dance.
The exhibition also includes several drawings from "Canto V: A Whirlwind of Lovers," a series of works especially created for The Huntington Library's recent exhibition of the same name. Weisberg was the first contemporary painter ever to be commissioned for a solo exhibition at that institution. Invited to create an exhibition inspired by a work in the Huntington's collection, Weisberg selected William Blake's engraving's for Dante's Inferno, in which condemned lovers are endlessly buffeted in a whirlwind; close but never able to touch.
Ruth Weisberg's work has been exhibited and represented in national as well as international museum collections such as The Whitney Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Gallery, Washington, DC; Biblioteca Nationale of France, Paris; and Instituto Nationale per la Grafica, Rome, Italy.
About the featured image:
TOUCH, 2002
Mixed Media Drawing
30 x 22 1/4 inches
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