Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles
Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica
Gallery Seomi, Seoul
Kukje Gallery, Seoul
Max Lang Gallery, New York
Mark Neuberger Collection, New York
Sotheby's New York, Contemporary Art Day Sale, May 16, 2007, lot 301
Private Collection, Belgium
Seoul, Seomi Gallery, Edward Ruscha, 1996
This work will be included in a forthcoming volume of Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Volume Five, 1993-1997, pp.254-255.
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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