Nathan Rutkowski
@nrutkowski1.bsky.social
Artist, analog and digital. He/Him.
Pinned
Transitoriness. Oil on Canvas 20 x 30 inches.
Creation - that is the great redemption from suffering, and life’s easement. But that the creator may exist, that itself requires suffering and much transformation.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
Creation - that is the great redemption from suffering, and life’s easement. But that the creator may exist, that itself requires suffering and much transformation.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
Form in movement
Ink on paper 9 x 12 inches
Ink on paper 9 x 12 inches
November 13, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Form in movement
Ink on paper 9 x 12 inches
Ink on paper 9 x 12 inches
Asia on Figure Monday at Peak Secondhand in Audubon NJ. A Figure Friday Art Collective Event @figurefriday.bsky.social with @jenthetracy.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Asia on Figure Monday at Peak Secondhand in Audubon NJ. A Figure Friday Art Collective Event @figurefriday.bsky.social with @jenthetracy.bsky.social
Birds in an Autumn Garden
Gouache and Carandache Crayon on Watercolor Paper 9 x 12 inches.
#nathanrutkowskiartist #automatism #worksonpaper
Gouache and Carandache Crayon on Watercolor Paper 9 x 12 inches.
#nathanrutkowskiartist #automatism #worksonpaper
November 11, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Birds in an Autumn Garden
Gouache and Carandache Crayon on Watercolor Paper 9 x 12 inches.
#nathanrutkowskiartist #automatism #worksonpaper
Gouache and Carandache Crayon on Watercolor Paper 9 x 12 inches.
#nathanrutkowskiartist #automatism #worksonpaper
Transitoriness. Oil on Canvas 20 x 30 inches.
Creation - that is the great redemption from suffering, and life’s easement. But that the creator may exist, that itself requires suffering and much transformation.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
Creation - that is the great redemption from suffering, and life’s easement. But that the creator may exist, that itself requires suffering and much transformation.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
November 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Transitoriness. Oil on Canvas 20 x 30 inches.
Creation - that is the great redemption from suffering, and life’s easement. But that the creator may exist, that itself requires suffering and much transformation.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
Creation - that is the great redemption from suffering, and life’s easement. But that the creator may exist, that itself requires suffering and much transformation.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
What I’m interested in is the sensation of the paint and the brush on the surface. I’m building paint layers. It’s the cumulative activity rather than the “immediate” sensation of an image.
Image 3 is what I started with this morning, Image 1 where I stopped.
Image 3 is what I started with this morning, Image 1 where I stopped.
November 9, 2025 at 2:54 AM
What I’m interested in is the sensation of the paint and the brush on the surface. I’m building paint layers. It’s the cumulative activity rather than the “immediate” sensation of an image.
Image 3 is what I started with this morning, Image 1 where I stopped.
Image 3 is what I started with this morning, Image 1 where I stopped.
Kelly at South Jersey Behavior Center
November 8, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Kelly at South Jersey Behavior Center
So someone correct me here but is there a reason Matthew Barney hasn’t had a Venice Pavilion? Like why we do we have to go with “mediocre” white male sculptors? If white male sculptors was the metric? Maybe they tried and he declined? I have so many questions.
www.twopalms.us/artists/matt...
www.twopalms.us/artists/matt...
Matthew Barney - Artists - Two Palms
Over the last three decades, few artists have taken on projects of such ambitious scale, originality and technical innovation as Matthew Barney (born 1967). Since his graduation from Yale in 1989, Bar...
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November 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
So someone correct me here but is there a reason Matthew Barney hasn’t had a Venice Pavilion? Like why we do we have to go with “mediocre” white male sculptors? If white male sculptors was the metric? Maybe they tried and he declined? I have so many questions.
www.twopalms.us/artists/matt...
www.twopalms.us/artists/matt...
Art Environment
November 4, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Art Environment
Inspection in a Trench
Oil on canvas, size 20 x 16 inches.
#nathanrutkowskiartist #automatism #oilpainting #industriallife
Oil on canvas, size 20 x 16 inches.
#nathanrutkowskiartist #automatism #oilpainting #industriallife
November 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Inspection in a Trench
Oil on canvas, size 20 x 16 inches.
#nathanrutkowskiartist #automatism #oilpainting #industriallife
Oil on canvas, size 20 x 16 inches.
#nathanrutkowskiartist #automatism #oilpainting #industriallife
I’m curating an exhibition in my upstairs bedroom for May 2026. It will include some new conceptual works by me and works by Jordan Wolfson, Jake Chapman, Alex Bienstock, Lucia Love, @kennys.bsky.social Kenny Schachter, Stefan F Wallz, James Schlichting, and @jenthetracy.bsky.social Jen Tracy.
November 3, 2025 at 5:45 AM
I’m curating an exhibition in my upstairs bedroom for May 2026. It will include some new conceptual works by me and works by Jordan Wolfson, Jake Chapman, Alex Bienstock, Lucia Love, @kennys.bsky.social Kenny Schachter, Stefan F Wallz, James Schlichting, and @jenthetracy.bsky.social Jen Tracy.
Almost got it
Oil on canvas, size 24 x 18 inches.
#nathanrutkowskiartist #automatism #oilpainting #industriallife
Oil on canvas, size 24 x 18 inches.
#nathanrutkowskiartist #automatism #oilpainting #industriallife
November 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Almost got it
Oil on canvas, size 24 x 18 inches.
#nathanrutkowskiartist #automatism #oilpainting #industriallife
Oil on canvas, size 24 x 18 inches.
#nathanrutkowskiartist #automatism #oilpainting #industriallife
Working over some older paintings going to let some older stuff I like remain
November 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Working over some older paintings going to let some older stuff I like remain
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October 31, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Jewel Form
Gouache on paper 12 x 9 inches
Gouache on paper 12 x 9 inches
October 30, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Jewel Form
Gouache on paper 12 x 9 inches
Gouache on paper 12 x 9 inches
Hell Cave
Oil on canvas 16 x 20 inches
Oil on canvas 16 x 20 inches
October 28, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Hell Cave
Oil on canvas 16 x 20 inches
Oil on canvas 16 x 20 inches
Composition with Yellow
Gouache on Paper 11 x 14 inches.
Gouache on Paper 11 x 14 inches.
October 27, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Composition with Yellow
Gouache on Paper 11 x 14 inches.
Gouache on Paper 11 x 14 inches.
Battery
Oil and acrylic on sea shells and linen. Size 18 x 24 inches.
#nathanrutkowskiartist #automatism #artinformel #abstractart #abstractexpressionism #markmaking #gesturalabstraction
Oil and acrylic on sea shells and linen. Size 18 x 24 inches.
#nathanrutkowskiartist #automatism #artinformel #abstractart #abstractexpressionism #markmaking #gesturalabstraction
October 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Battery
Oil and acrylic on sea shells and linen. Size 18 x 24 inches.
#nathanrutkowskiartist #automatism #artinformel #abstractart #abstractexpressionism #markmaking #gesturalabstraction
Oil and acrylic on sea shells and linen. Size 18 x 24 inches.
#nathanrutkowskiartist #automatism #artinformel #abstractart #abstractexpressionism #markmaking #gesturalabstraction
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This is lovely.
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I Could Do That
Why You Probably Couldn't, and Why You Should Still Try
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October 24, 2025 at 9:51 AM
This is lovely.
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rebeccaborrelli.substack.com/p/i-could-do...
Reposted by Nathan Rutkowski
Long pose with Connie from tonight’s Figure Friday hosted by Loudo Guitar #art #watercolor
October 23, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Long pose with Connie from tonight’s Figure Friday hosted by Loudo Guitar #art #watercolor
October 23, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Two in progress. I will get away from the green eventually but not totally.
October 22, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Two in progress. I will get away from the green eventually but not totally.
Gwen
Gouache on Paper. Size 14 x 11 inches.
Painted @joctice at My Studio in Audubon NJ
Gouache on Paper. Size 14 x 11 inches.
Painted @joctice at My Studio in Audubon NJ
October 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Gwen
Gouache on Paper. Size 14 x 11 inches.
Painted @joctice at My Studio in Audubon NJ
Gouache on Paper. Size 14 x 11 inches.
Painted @joctice at My Studio in Audubon NJ
Current State. I’ve been told it’s Autumnal looking. I guess so.
It’s funny because I wasn’t thinking about any of that. Only “ ughh not this but that, too fuzzy, too flat, too sharp, not sharp enough, not fuzzy enough, too thick, not thick enough, too bright, not bright enough..” and so on.
It’s funny because I wasn’t thinking about any of that. Only “ ughh not this but that, too fuzzy, too flat, too sharp, not sharp enough, not fuzzy enough, too thick, not thick enough, too bright, not bright enough..” and so on.
October 18, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Current State. I’ve been told it’s Autumnal looking. I guess so.
It’s funny because I wasn’t thinking about any of that. Only “ ughh not this but that, too fuzzy, too flat, too sharp, not sharp enough, not fuzzy enough, too thick, not thick enough, too bright, not bright enough..” and so on.
It’s funny because I wasn’t thinking about any of that. Only “ ughh not this but that, too fuzzy, too flat, too sharp, not sharp enough, not fuzzy enough, too thick, not thick enough, too bright, not bright enough..” and so on.
What I worked on today
October 17, 2025 at 3:29 AM
What I worked on today