Ed Ruscha in New York City

Gagosian will present three separate exhibitions and projects by Ed Ruscha in New York, including his participation in Frieze New York with a series of recent paintings.

On May 6, Ruscha’s first public commission in New York City will be unveiled, in the form of a huge mural painted onto an apartment building next to the High Line on West 22nd street and 10th Avenue. The mural is a reinterpretation of Ruscha’s 1977 pastel drawing, Honey, I Twisted Through More Damn Traffic Today.

Ruscha will also exhibit a major survey of prints produced over the past forty years, as well as a selection of photographs taken in the 1960s and printed in 2003. Ed Ruscha: Prints and Photographs explores the shifting emblems of American life during the last half century. Through wry phrases, archetypal landscapes, and familiar objects, Ruscha transforms popular culture into a language of cinematic and typographical codes as accessible as they are profound.

RUSCH 2009 Cold Beer Beautiful Girls (ed. of 60) web

Ed Ruscha Cold Beer Beautiful Girls (2009) Three colour lithograph 102.9 x 77.5 cm
© Ed Ruscha. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery. Photography by Robert McKeever

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Ed Ruscha Periods (2013) Lithograph 73 x 71.1 cm
© Ed Ruscha. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery. Photography by Paul Ruscha

RUSCH 2013.Wall Rocket (Ed. of 60) web

Ed Ruscha Wall Rocket (2013) Lithograph 73 x 71.1 cm
© Ed Ruscha. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery. Photography by Mats Nordman

by Louise Lui

Opening May 6: Ed Ruscha High Line Commission
May 8 – June 14: Ed Ruscha: Prints and Photographs at Gagosian Madison Avenue
May 9 – 12: Ed Ruscha at Frieze New York