Edward Ruscha Gallery
Ectacolor print on paper board.
From his first prints and artist's books made in the early 1960s to his latest projects, Ruscha has created a body of editioned work that is uniquely American in both subject and sensibility. He first began making prints in the late 1950s, and produced his first lithograph in 1962, which was soon followed by his landmark book, Twentysix Gasoline Stations. Containing 26 color and black-and-white photographs of filling stations on Route 66 between Los Angeles and Oklahoma City, the book was like nothing the art world had seen before. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Ruscha continued to publish similar books, filled with photographs depicting commonplace items or locations that commented on the sterility and anonymity of the Los Angeles landscape. These works are now considered pivotal in the history of the contemporary artist's book
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| Picture H House |
| Cheese Oval |
| Annie |
Pools |
| Main Street |
| Certain Trail |
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Ruscha was born in Omaha, raised in Oklahoma and moved to Los Angeles in the late 1950s to study commercial art. His work questions the values of traditional symbols and calls attention to our role in art and culture by highlighting our intuitions through his use of words, color and proportion. Words or blocks of color often float on that part of a panorama where the sky meets the ground.
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