James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles
Meyers/Bloom Gallery, Los Angeles
Private Collection
Galerie Haas und Fuchs, Berlin
Acquired from above by the present owner in 2006
Los Angeles, James Corcoran Gallery, Edward Ruscha: Paintings, Drawings, January 15 – February 16, 1985
Munich, Westfälischer Kunstverein, 4 x 6: Zeichnungen von Edward Ruscha, June 26 – August 17, 1986, n.p. (illustrated)
Los Angeles, Ikon Ltd. Contemporary Art, Ed Ruscha, October 22 – December 18, 2004
Robert C. Morgan, "Pastel, Juice and Gunpowder: The Pico Iconography of Ed Ruscha", no. 30, September-October 1981 in Journal: A Contemporary Art Magazine (Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art), vol. 4, no. 39, Spring 1984, p. 62 (illustrated)
Ed Ruscha, They Called Her Styrene, London, 2000, n.p. (illustrated)
American • 1937
Quintessentially American, Ed Ruscha is an L.A.-based artist whose art, like California itself, is both geographically rooted and a metaphor for an American state of mind. Ruscha is a deft creator of photography, film, painting, drawing, prints and artist books, whose works are simultaneously unexpected and familiar, both ironic and sincere.
His most iconic works are at turns poetic and deadpan, epigrammatic text with nods to advertising copy, juxtaposed with imagery that is either cinematic and sublime or seemingly wry documentary. Whether the subject is his iconic Standard Gas Station or the Hollywood Sign, a parking lot or highway, his works are a distillation of American idealism, echoing the expansive Western landscape and optimism unique to postwar America.
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