For the 2011 calendar, LCF is pleased to present an image of its
first sculpture, Sifaka Lemur in Tree, created by internationally renowned
ceramicist Kathy Ruttenberg,
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Born in Chicago and living in upstate New York, Ms. Ruttenberg
studied art at New York University’s Graduate Program, Venice, Italy,
School of Visual Arts, Tangier, Morocco, School of Visual Arts, New
York, NY, and Parson Evening Division, New York, NY.
She has continually exhibited her beautiful, sometimes whimsical,
sometimes disturbing, and always evocative work over the last 30 years
primarily in New York, New England and Chicago, Her bailiwick is a place
inhabited by mad and wonderful people, fauna and flora - all
interconnecting in novel ways. In addition to art and ceramic galleries,
Ms Ruttenberg has shown in non-formal venues as well like Macy’s Herald
Square windows for the 2007 Flower Show, Tisch Children’s Zoo at NY’s
Central Park, and on Sesame Street.
After her visit to Madagascar she became enchanted with lemurs creating
her “Lemur Lady” (see website). Moved by their plight, she created
Sifaka Lemur in Tree to help LCF promote the beauty of these creatures
and to move us to realize how terrible it would be if we lost them.
Using paint, clay, watercolors, textiles, and animated film, she
describes her work as intended “ … to show the beauty of imperfection,
the pain and beauty of that which is human, that which is animal, things
we cannot control”.
