Ed Ruscha

Ed Ruscha (b. 1937, Omaha, Nebraska) is one of the most influential American contemporary artists and a leading figure of Pop Art and Conceptual Art. Based in Los Angeles, his work draws inspiration from the urban landscape, language, typography, and American popular culture. Working across painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, and artist’s books, Ruscha explores the relationship between words and images, producing an iconic body of work that has profoundly shaped postwar and contemporary art.

O,
Executed in 1993, in the United States

Oil on book
26.3 x 21.4 x 2.8 cm

Signed and dated 'Ed Ruscha 1993' on the interior cover

Exhibited:
Santa Fe, James Kelly Contemporary, Ed Ruscha: S
Books, O Books and Other Books, 12 July-22 September 2001
Houston, Texas Gallery, Edward Ruscha: Paintings of/on Books, 20 November-22 December 2001
Kunsthalle Bregenz, Reading Ed Ruscha, 7 July-14 October 2012, p. 200 (illustrated)
Athens, Neon, Portals, 11 June-31 December 2021, n.p. (illustrated)
Literature:
Robert Dean, Ed Ruscha: An Archive of Projects, New Haven, 2023, p. 259 (illustrated)