Ed Ruscha
Overview
Ed Ruscha’s (1937–) career is an eclectic one, spanning across generic and artistic boundaries. After his move to California in the fifties, Ruscha quickly became a leading practitioner of Pop Art with his depictions of everyday objects of Americana.
Working across mediums such as drawing, painting, collage, print, and artist books, working with unusual materials such as Pepto Bismol, grass stains, and gunpowder, Ruscha manages to combine cliched and mundane visual motifs of Americana in a way that is formally brazen and innovative, producing works at once ironic and sublime.
Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2001, Ruscha has proven himself a key artist of the twenty-first century as well as the twentieth, creating works of painting that juxtapose landscape with enigmatic text drawn from everyday vernacular. His work continues to surprise, confound and move - his oeuvre showing an unmatchable complexity.
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