Ed Ruscha

Delve into Ed Ruscha's 2014 body of work, a striking collection of intimate bleach-on-linen paintings that interrogate language and visual communication. Each small-scale composition features enigmatic text rendered in bleach, creating subtle stains against carefully chosen linen grounds in grey, blue, and maroon tonalities. This publication, with cover imagery by Ruscha himself depicting a Clorox bottle silhouette, examines the artist's enduring preoccupation with the written word as a discrete visual element. The work demonstrates Ruscha's conceptual rigor in isolating text within austere compositions, transforming everyday language into contemplative artistic statements.

Ed Ruscha
Ed Ruscha
Karma/Gagosian Gallery, New York, 2014
64 pages
9 ¹⁄₄ × 11 ¹⁄₂ inches
Out of Print