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ceramist who lives in Ann Arbor and
helped do the scouting for her sister's
exhibit.
Pentimento, which shows the artist
unable to pass through a gate lead-
ing to an idyllic landscape she knew
as a student in Italy, calls attention to
Weisberg's focus on memory and the
inability to return to what might be
remembered as golden times. Daisy
in Her Purim Costume, which cap-
tures Harrison's granddaughter as a
3-year-old, is one of many allusions to
family and religious practices.
"Visually, my work has a strong
emphasis on drawing, with almost
always an element of transparency
and a reference to the ephemeral,"
says Weisberg, whose work can
be seen in the collections of many
prestigious art centers, reaching
from the National Gallery of Art in
Washington, D.C., to the Norwegian
National Museum in Oslo. "I'm
very much influenced by the his-
tory of art, particularly the Italian
Renaissance
Weisberg, who knew she wanted
to be an artist when she was 6 and
taking classes at the Art Institute
of Chicago, chose to attend the
University of Michigan because
her sister had enrolled there. After
working at EMU, she taught at the
University of Southern California
before being named dean of its Roski
School of Fine Arts 12 years ago.
"Not only do I often use Jewish
subject matter, but I also use Jewish
modes of thinking that have influ-
enced my work whatever the subject
matter," says Weisberg. She regularly
attends Shabbat services and is part of
the Los Angeles/Tel Aviv Partnership,
which promotes cultural exchanges.
"I've always wanted to create work
that had a great deal of meaning in
terms of trying to sort out both our
experiences in this life and our histor-
ical memory, and I think that's a very
Jewish aspect of the work."
More specifically Jewish items in
the EMU exhibit include prints from
The Shtetl, an illustrated artist's book
Weisberg created, and prints from The
Scroll, a 94-foot-long watercolor draw-
ing synchronically presenting the life
of a contemporary Jewish woman and
the history of the Jews.
Weisberg, claiming a need for less
sleep than most people, credits a
disciplined use of time for the large
number of projects she completes. A
big help is maintaining a studio that
fills the entire first floor of her Culver
City, Calif., home.

The artist, who last year completed
a 29-foot Jewish immigration mural
for the UJA Federation of New York,
has a retrospective, "Ruth Weisberg
Unfurled," running at the Skirball
Museum and Cultural Center in Los
Angeles simultaneously with the
Michigan show. Another project, for
display next year at the Norton Simon
Museum in Pasadena, Calif., charges
her with creating new paintings
and drawings in response to a 1660
Baroque painting.

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influenced by the history of art,

particularly the Italian Renaissance."

Weisberg's daughter, Alicia
Weisberg-Roberts, works as an art
historian. Her son, Alfred Weisberg-
Roberts, is a musician and composer
recording and touring under the name
Daedelus.
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says. "Sustaining a very active exhibit-
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