Brian Rutenberg is a contemporary American painter. Best known for his large abstract paintings composed of vivid fluorescent colors, he forms his compositions through heavy, impasto marks and the use of nontraditional materials like wire. Rutenberg’s canvases evoke data deterioration and virtual landscapes, with colors intersecting in a staccato rhythm resembling a glitchy computer screen. After receiving his MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 1989, he befriended the painters Gregory Amenoff and Walter Darby Bannard, both of whom would serve as Rutenberg’s mentors, shaping and inspiring his later work. Born on September 18, 1965 in Myrtle Beach, SC, the artist now maintains a studio practice in New York. He has exhibited work in various South Carolinian museums in tandem with gallery representation by Forum in Los Angeles and New York, as well as garnering awards like a Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Grant in 1992, and a Fulbright Fellowship for study in Ireland in 1997.