Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London
Galerie Philippe Rizzo, Paris
Private Collection, France
Sprüth Magers Lee, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner
London, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, Ed Ruscha: New Paintings and a retrospective of works on paper, June 26 – July 30, 1998, p. 44 (illustrated)
Ed Ruscha, They Called Her Styrene, London, 2000 (illustrated on the back cover)
Lisa Turvey, ed., Edward Ruscha, Catalogue Raisonné of the works on paper, Volume 2: 1977 – 1997, New York, 2018, D1990.31, p. 318 (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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