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Nathan Rutkowski @nrutkowski1.bsky.social · 6d

Show is up at @studio67medford

Opening is October 5th Sunday from 2-5

67 N Main St
Medford, NJ 08055
United States

#nathanrutkowskiartist #studio67 #njarts

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JenTheTracy @jenthetracy.bsky.social · 14d

Framing is the most expensive part of the job #art

Two ink drawings of women in a gold frame on a well loved drawing board

Two ink drawings of women framed in gold on a stained drawing board. the woman on the left is dressed as a flapper with a feather in her hair. The woman on the right hugs her knees

Two black ink drawings of women sitting while staring into the middle distance. One wears jeans, the other a backwards baseball cap. Both framed drawings rest on an old drawing board

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Nathan Rutkowski @nrutkowski1.bsky.social · 13h

Progress on two paintings I’m working on.

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Nathan Rutkowski @nrutkowski1.bsky.social · 1d

I’m ready to go into the woods, make rock piles, then call it a day.

Nathan Rutkowski @nrutkowski1.bsky.social · 2d

I think all the aggravation of community building is an artwork.

Nathan Rutkowski @nrutkowski1.bsky.social · 3d

Started a new large “shapey shapes” cardboard and plastic painting. Exorcisms were needed.

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Nathan Rutkowski @nrutkowski1.bsky.social · 4d

How Storm Over Jersey was started

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Nathan Rutkowski @nrutkowski1.bsky.social · 6d

Show is up at @studio67medford

Opening is October 5th Sunday from 2-5

67 N Main St
Medford, NJ 08055
United States

#nathanrutkowskiartist #studio67 #njarts

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Nathan Rutkowski @nrutkowski1.bsky.social · 6d

Show is up at @studio67medford

Opening is October 5th Sunday from 2-5

67 N Main St
Medford, NJ 08055
United States

#nathanrutkowskiartist #studio67 #njarts

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Nathan Rutkowski @nrutkowski1.bsky.social · 7d

@jenthetracy.bsky.social thanks!

Nathan Rutkowski @nrutkowski1.bsky.social · 7d

Rissa from memory. Pencil and crayon on paper.

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JenTheTracy @jenthetracy.bsky.social · 8d

Figure Friday on a Monday with @rissapappas.com at Peak Secondhand #art

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Nathan Rutkowski @nrutkowski1.bsky.social · 8d

Figure Monday at Peak Secondhand in Audubon NJ.

A @figurefriday.bsky.social event.

Monitored by @jenthetracy.bsky.social

model was
@rissapappas.com

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Nathan Rutkowski @nrutkowski1.bsky.social · 8d

Crazy weekend! Two simultaneous exhibitions at Collingswood NJ Porchfest on Saturday! The Plastic Club in Philly on Sunday!

Saturday bands at one location was the Enthusiastic Amateurs. The Slack and The Screamin Rockets at the other.

Nathan Rutkowski @nrutkowski1.bsky.social · 11d

Figure Wednesday.
@figurefriday.bsky.social

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Sharon Anderson @mindtheimage.bsky.social · 14d

Suzanne Jackson's retrospective at SFMOMA features figurative paintings of people as environmental abstractions of our world. My latest for the Voice of San Francisco.

thevoicesf.org/suzanne-jack...

‘Suzanne Jackson: What Is Love Opens’ Sept. 27 at SFMOMA - The Voice of San Francisco

For decades, my figurative forms and challenged shapes have pushed paint beyond the expected. With intentional reflective layers and floating luminous pigment, my work pursues alternative ways of seei...

thevoicesf.org

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Nathan Rutkowski @nrutkowski1.bsky.social · 14d

“Sunflowers” Acrylic on plastic and cardboard on wood, size 34 x 42 inches.

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Sharon Anderson @mindtheimage.bsky.social · 21d

Untitled - acrylic on canvas

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Nathan Rutkowski @nrutkowski1.bsky.social · 16d

My paintings “Sunflowers” and “No Spiritual Surrender” against white walls during my friend @feenyfineart Makers Forum at SOHA @soha_artsbuilding.

Jeff will have a show there at SOHA called “Arcanum Allure” October 1st-31st Reception October 25th 1-4 pm.

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Nathan Rutkowski @nrutkowski1.bsky.social · 16d

On this Day 9/21/2025

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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 18d

A new book about Ruth Asawa and her artist-mother community reminds us that taking care of children and making art — be it public art, community work, with children, or for children — are radical acts of parenting and anti-totalitarian making.

Ruth Asawa Proved That Mothering Is Inherently Artistic

Jordan Troeller’s book about the Bay Area sculptor and her artist-mother community shows us how reciprocity and caretaking become the work itself, not just the subject or the conditions.

hyperallergic.com

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Nathan Rutkowski @nrutkowski1.bsky.social · 18d

So good

Nathan Rutkowski @nrutkowski1.bsky.social · 19d

For Late Night Comedians and Free Speech

Nathan Rutkowski @nrutkowski1.bsky.social · 19d

I’m a Picasso fan (sorry) and this example from the period is almost too good. Wonder why the major houses got snubbed…?

www.lemonde.fr/en/france/ar...

Previously unknown Picasso portrait revealed in Paris

The colorful oil painting, entitled 'Bust of a woman with a flowery hat,' depicts Dora Maar, an artist and Pablo Picasso's muse. It is being put up for auction in Paris, with a reserve price of €8 mil...

www.lemonde.fr

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gregorg @greg.org · 20d

I don't think two drawings have covered more of the lived art world experience than this hilariously depressing Wm Powhida list of art comments, and the portrait Ellsworth Kelly drew of his former boyfriend Robert Indiana on the back of a Skowhegan gala menu greg.org/archive/2025...

a william powhida drawing depicts a sheet of notebook paper taped to a wall, casting a slight shadow, on which hilariously depressing interpretations of various art world commentaries and small talk are listed in a way that gives full force to the artist's insecurities and renders the art world a shallow, judgy high school with occasionally free wine. being sold at heritage auction in sept 2025

the menu for the skowhegan celebration exhibition opening dinner, an evening in maine, may 1, 1984, down east field salad of casco, bay shrimp, fiddleheads sliced, mushrooms, dandelion leaves and bibb lettuce, red farm cornbread, skowhegan chicken pot pie, original maine blueberry cobbler with vanilla ice cream, chocolate mints, coffee, simi chenin blanc, 1983, moet et chandon brut imperial, all written in an upright calligraphic hand, over and over and over for each menu oy

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Nathan Rutkowski @nrutkowski1.bsky.social · 22d

My paintings “Sunflowers” and “No Spiritual Surrender” got the wood mounts cut and glued on. Thanks to @jimslic for his assistance.

#nathanrutkowskiartist #process #studio #fabrication