Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills
Private Collection
Max Lang, New York
Private Collection (acquired from the above)
Sotheby’s, New York, May 13, 2009, lot 191
L & M Arts, New York
Private Collection (acquired from the above)
Santa Monica, IKON, Ltd., Spring 2006 Exhibition, April 8, 2006 - May 27, 2006
New York, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, The Other Side, May 5 - July 20, 2006
Ed Ruscha / Raymond Pettibon: The Holy Bible and The End, exh. cat., Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, 2006, p. 13 (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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