From palm trees and gas stations to swimming pools and signage 🇺🇸 EdRuscha
draws on the art books the artist created between 1963-1978, featuring photos, drawings and prints which clearly form the raw material for his pared back paintings. In photographs of shop fronts, gas stations, cars, parking lots and advertising signage can be found the beginnings of the visual lexicon that he distils and compresses on his canvases.
40 years on, these details have become definitive cultural signposts for LA, California, even America as a whole. Here we explore Ruscha’s five favoured motifs.Edward Ruscha Papers and Art Collection © Ed Ruscha Courtesy HarryThe Ruscha swimming pool is from the other side of the tracks to David Hockney’s. Here the colours are faded and the diving board is stained. Real life intrudes, rather than the shimmering irreality of the Hollywood hills.
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