Kady JLKR

For the past twenty-five years Kady JLKR has painted large scenes of Central Park in New York City. The majority of them are done from a single vantage point at Sheep Meadow, where sunbathing and picnicking figures stretch across the lawn towards the skyline on 59th Street. In this video, art historian and curator Charles Stuckey, discusses Ruttenberg’s singular approach to modern landscape painting. It is a practice rooted in repetition and accumulation. Layered over months and years, each work becomes a composite of countless moments, bearing witness to the private choreography of park goers in public.