Ed Ruscha

<b>Published to document the exhibition <i>Ed Ruscha: Tom Sawyer Paintings</i>, this lavishly illustrated bilingual English and French catalogue features new essays by Mark Godfrey and Ralph Rugoff.</b><br><br><i>Ed Ruscha: Tom Sawyer Paintings </i>documents the 2022 exhibition of ten new paintings and a new hologram at Gagosian Paris. The exhibition brought together naturalistic paintings of simple wooden slats, which at once represent a new direction in Ruscha’s work and extend his long-standing interest in realism, modernist abstraction, and the American vernacular.<br><br>The catalogue includes plate photography of the ten paintings and one hologram as well as installation views of the exhibition. <br><br>Ed Ruscha was born in 1937 in Omaha, Nebraska and lives and works in Los Angeles. A career-spanning retrospective, <i>ED RUSCHA/NOW THEN</i>, will open at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in September 2023 and travel to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in April 2024.<br><br>Since 1993, Gagosian has presented twenty-five major exhibitions of Ruscha’s work in the United States and Europe.<br><br>New, illustrated essays by Mark Godfrey and Ralph Rugoff, offering critical and historical contexts for the work, are included in this bilingual English and French catalogue.