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Elaine Equi: The Poetry of Ed Ruscha

by on Dec.20, 2009, under art, poetry

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Ed Ruscha’s work allows me to combine two activities I love: reading and looking at art. The pleasure feels a bit illicit, as if neither thing would willingly give up the supremacy of my undivided attention. More simply put, I feel like I’m getting away with something — maybe doing my homework and watching TV at the same time. It feels good. I want to keep doing it.

Coming away from The Whitney’s recent retrospective, Cotton Puffs, Q-Tips, Smoke and Mirrors: The Drawings of Ed Ruscha, which spans over forty years in the artist’s career, I’m once again dazzled by the remarkable depth of Ruscha’s gift for understatement. Verbally and visually he does so much with so little — and gets away with it! Known for his books of serial photographs, his still lifes of cleaning products, his drawings of motels and gas stations, Ruscha is most famous, crudely put, as that guy who draws words. These works, by far, make up the majority of the exhibit, and it is particularly of them I wish to speak.

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Ed Ruscha

by on Nov.29, 2009, under art

Enlightening retrospective exhibition on now at the Hayward Gallery, South Bank, London. I  like the way he plays with codes of representation -among many other things. Recommended.

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