
“For Ruth, The Sky in Los Angeles: Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt and David Horvitz”
This surprisingly buoyant exhibition borrows its title from a tender 2016 drawing by David Horvitz, a text-based work consisting of the words “For Ruth, the sky in los angeles.” Written in blue-purple watercolor, Horvitz’s childlike scrawl conveys, more aptly than a photograph or a representational drawing, the beauty and elusiveness of a cloudless LA sky at dusk.
The “Ruth” to whom the sky is addressed is Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, an artist born in 1932 who was active in East Germany from the 1970s until 1990, when she retired from artmaking after the Berlin Wall fell. Unfettered freedom, she felt,