Kady JLKR (Janet Ruttenberg) remains somewhat of a secret as a distinguished artist. Although she rarely exhibits publicly, she has worked for the past eighty years as a master printer and a painter as well as a sophisticated collage artist. Since 2010 her works have incorporated photography and video into printmaking and painting in unprecedented ways.
During the past twenty-five years she has specialized in monumental views of Central Park in New York City, realized en plein air with brushes attached to long poles. The great majority of her monumental watercolors and the paintings based on them are made from a single vantage point at the edge of the Sheep Meadow, where diverse multitudes gather to relax. She often pauses to take photos and videos of details that come and go, integrating them in the ever more graphically extravagant visual ensembles of her completed works.