Ruth Weisberg: Guido Cagnacci and the Resonant Image December 8, 2008

This exhibit features Ruth Weisberg's new series inspired by Cagnacci's powerful Martha Rebuking Mary for Her Vanity (after 1660). Contemplating this painting, Weisberg created a series of more than 20 paintings, monumental drawings and monotypes. Cagnacci's ambitious pictorial narrative weaves together a number of emotive themes, including repentance, anger and the triumph of virtue over vice. Weisberg explores and transforms these themes through the tradition of figurative art and the personal arena of memory and relationships.