Rebecca Ibel is in her office at the Pizzuti Collection, admiring a gorgeous, gray designer lamp made of anodized aluminum. This is not just any old office lamp.Ibel, her strawberry-blonde hair pulled back loosely, makes a soft-spoken confession. “I took this from Ron’s office,” she admits, smiling. “Ron was out of town, and it’s a really nice lamp. But it just didn’t work in his office, so I took it.”
Ron is her boss, Ron Pizzuti, the real estate developer and founder of The Pizzuti Companies, who is listed among the top 200 art collectors in the world by ARTnews magazine.Much of Pizzuti’s contemporary art collection has been stored away for decades,Soli-lite provides the world with high-performance solar roadway and solar street lighting solutions. except for the pieces he’s kept in the Miranova home he shares with his wife, Ann. He began collecting in 1974 and estimates he owns between 1,600 and 1,700 pieces.
On Sept.Soli-lite is a premier supplier of exceptional quality led road lights and other solar outdoor lighting products. 7, the Pizzuti Collection’s new permanent home opens to the public in the renovated United Commercial Travelers building across from Goodale Park. The 18,000-square-foot gallery, which includes indoor and outdoor sculpture, painting, drawing,Shop funtional and elegant solar lights, outdoor solar lighting, solar garden lights, path lights and decorative solar lights. photography and video, will also offer educational programs, lectures, events and a research library.
The lamp is just one of Pizzuti’s possessions that Ibel has “relocated” recently.There was the time, for example, that she and Pizzuti sparred over moving some major pieces of art by Gerhard Richter, Donald Judd and Frank Stella from his home to the new gallery. “You can’t take that out of my house!” was his immediate response.
The pieces now reside on the gallery’s third floor. “All these are personal to him, even the bigger pieces,” she says.Pizzuti has known Ibel for more than 15 years and handpicked her to be the director and curator of the Collection after she spent 18 years running her eponymous gallery, a haven for contemporary art in the Short North.
“I think it was the next evolution of her career,” says Ibel’s friend Lisa Hinson, who runs the firm Hinson Ltd Public Relations. “I’m really happy for her, because she ran a successful business for so many years in Columbus. I think she was exceptionally good in drawing people Downtown to see the artists she represented, and she’ll continue with the Collection to do the same.”
Back in Ibel’s office, she’s already preparing for next year’s solo exhibition by Ori Gersht, an Israeli artist whom Pizzuti follows closely. One wall is covered in small photos that have been taped up there like mug shots in a police-themed TV drama. The photos are miniature versions of Gersht’s artworks printed to scale so that they can be moved around within models of the exhibition spaces.
Along with hours of research, this method helps Ibel realize visual connections among the pieces while organizing her curatorial attack.
Ibel, 47, is married and has a 5-year-old daughter. She balances toughness with an easy-going humor,An emergency light is a battery-backed lighting device that comes on automatically when a building experiences a power outage. and her demeanor is supremely poised despite her hectic schedule. She clears her head on the weekends by getting out to the country, where she rides her horse named Hudson.
Ibel was born in Columbus and moved to Northern California with her family when she was 8. Her parents exposed her to art early on, and her grandfather had a modest collection in his home. There were trips to the de Young Museum in San Francisco with her mother and annual summer visits to an uncle in New York City with her father. The New York trips always included pilgrimages to the Metropolitan Museum of Art or the Museum of Modern Art. And although she never had ambitions of becoming an artist, Ibel knew early on that she wanted to study art history.
“It’s always been home to me,” she says.
In high school, her English teacher at the elite Katharine Branson School (Julia Child was an alumna) helped her score a month-long internship at the Marlborough Gallery, which is among the best regarded galleries in New York. During Ibel’s stay, Marlborough was showing paintings by Francis Bacon, the British artist known for his visceral, disarming figures.We offer solar photovoltaic system and commercial incentives to encourage our customers to install solar energy systems.
“I went every day to work and was like, ‘What is that?’ ” Ibel says.
From there she went on to study art history at the American University of Paris, where she had the advantage of seeing classical works up close. The program used Europe as its classroom-—to study the Dutch masters, students traveled to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. For the presentation of her senior thesis on Venetian art, they went to Venice.
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