Ed Ruscha: Pacific Coast Highway / Sunset Boulevard John Lowden multihued networks of linear brushstrokes

multihued networks of linear brushstrokes

originally created for a wrestling team

Bob Kaufman

Richard Calvocoressi’s masterful chronological narrative unpacks the artist’s work in terms of the historical upheavals Baselitz witnessed—particularly the political and cultural fallout from World War II—alongside his astonishing career

made between 2007 and 2018—several of which have never previously been exhibited or published—and includes an essay by Russell Ferguson

Ed Ruscha: Pacific Coast Highway / Sunset Boulevard John Lowden multihued networks of linear brushstrokesIn his Petro Plots suite of prints (2001)the title plays on the idea of petroglyphs or rock paintingsEd Ruscha depicts aerial views of famous Los Angeles intersections embedded into stone surfaces, referencing the geological diversity of the Southern California landscape. This example depicts the meeting of Pacific Coast Highway and the iconic Sunset Boulevard near Will Rogers State Beach in Pacific Palisades. Printed in relief on highly textured