ED RUSCHA (1937 in Omaha, Nebraska)

The American artist Edward “Ed” Joseph Ruscha became internationally known for his prints and paintings. His work has shaped the Californian art scene to this day and has helped it achieve international fame since the 1960s. As a filmmaker, photographer, graphic artist and painter, Ed Ruscha gained a worldwide reputation.

It all began in 1956 when Ruscha began studying at the Chouinard Art Institute (Los Angeles) – now the California Institute of Arts. As a trained graphic designer and photographer, Ed Ruscha places the overall impression of the layout at the center of his artistic work.

Ed Ruscha developed his own visual language as a photographer and has published numerous photo books since 1962. His recordings and works brought about a change in pop culture. As a later artist of the Beat Generation, Ruscha became an important pacesetter of the Pop Art movement with his works. As a younger artist, Ruscha perceives the older artists around Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol, but also brings his own reality of life into his artworks.

Films, mass media and artefacts of his own urban life (petrol stations, company advertisements, logos or individual words) become pictorial means and linguistic images in his work. Color and form show how Ruscha tends towards concept art in his work.

 

• Ed Ruscha had his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles as early as 1963

 

Ed Ruscha’s works are inspired by pop art and conceptual art, but his influence on these styles and his generation of artists should not be underestimated. With the pictorial language of Pop Art, his conceptual working method becomes a new expression in the art world.

 

Ed Ruscha’s etchings, lithographs and screen prints are an important part of the artist’s oeuvre. They reflect the essential and accentuate his artistic visual language.

The artist Ed Ruscha lives in Los Angeles.

 

 

Galerie Jeanne is exhibiting the following signed and numbered etching by ED RUSCHA directly in downtown Munich (the gallery is only 300 meters from Marienplatz) – and is offering this artwork by Ed Ruscha for sale:

• ED RUSCHA, ‘Reloj de arena’, etching on handmade paper, 1988, 76 x 56 cm, edition of 45, signed and numbered

 

Artworks by Ed Ruscha are exhibited worldwide

 

1999 – Museu Serralves – in Porto (present in the museum’s collection since 1968)

2005 – Venice Biennale – as representative of the U.S.A.

2006 – Museum Ludwig – in Cologne

2006 – Whitney Museum – New York

2010 – “Ed Rusha. 50 years of painting” – large retrospective of the pop art artist in the “Haus der Kunst” – in Munich

2009 – London

2011 – Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth – in Texas

2013 – Kunstmuseum Basel

 

 

Ed Ruscha’s works are represented in major collections and museums around the world, such as the

• MOMA—Museum of Modern Art, New York;
• Museum Brandhorst, Munich;
• …

 

 

The artist Ed Ruscha has received numerous national and international awards

 

In 2006 the American artist Ed Ruscha received the culture prize of the German Society for Photography (DGPh) at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne

2001 – Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters

2004 – Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London

2004 – Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

In 2014 Edward Ruscha was elected to the National Academy of Design in New York

 

 

The works of the American artist Edward “Ed” Joseph Ruscha can be classified into the following styles:

Pop Art, Contemporary Art, Modern Art, Pop Art, Concept Art

 

 

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