Gagosian will present three separate exhibitions and projects by Ed Ruscha in New York, including his participation in Frieze New York with a series of recent paintings.
On May 6, Ruscha’s first public commission in New York City will be unveiled, in the form of a huge mural painted onto an apartment building next to the High Line on West 22nd street and 10th Avenue. The mural is a reinterpretation of Ruscha’s 1977 pastel drawing, Honey, I Twisted Through More Damn Traffic Today.
Ruscha will also exhibit a major survey of prints produced over the past forty years, as well as a selection of photographs taken in the 1960s and printed in 2003. Ed Ruscha: Prints and Photographs explores the shifting emblems of American life during the last half century. Through wry phrases, archetypal landscapes, and familiar objects, Ruscha transforms popular culture into a language of cinematic and typographical codes as accessible as they are profound.
Ed Ruscha Cold Beer Beautiful Girls (2009) Three colour lithograph 102.9 x 77.5 cm
© Ed Ruscha. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery. Photography by Robert McKeever
Ed Ruscha Periods (2013) Lithograph 73 x 71.1 cm
© Ed Ruscha. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery. Photography by Paul Ruscha
Ed Ruscha Wall Rocket (2013) Lithograph 73 x 71.1 cm
© Ed Ruscha. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery. Photography by Mats Nordman
by Louise Lui
Opening May 6: Ed Ruscha High Line Commission
May 8 – June 14: Ed Ruscha: Prints and Photographs at Gagosian Madison Avenue
May 9 – 12: Ed Ruscha at Frieze New York