Flags
Gillian Pistell writes on the loaded symbol of the American flag in the work of postwar and contemporary artists.
Installation Views
Installation view, photo by Rob McKeever
Installation view, photo by Rob McKeever
Works Exhibited
Ed Ruscha
Clarence Jones, 2001
Acrylic on canvas, 72 × 124 ⅛ inches (182.9 × 315.3 cm)
Ed Ruscha
Never Odd or Even, 2001
Acrylic on canvas, 64 × 72 inches (162.6 × 182.9 cm)
Ed Ruscha
Step on No Pets, 2002
Acrylic on canvas, 64 ⅛ × 72 ⅛ inches (162.9 × 183.2 cm)
Ed Ruscha
Porch Crop, 2001
Acrylic on canvas, 64 ⅛ × 72 ⅛ inches (162.6 × 183.2 cm)
Ed Ruscha
Solo Gigoolos, 2002
Acrylic on canvas, 60 ⅛ × 60 ⅛ inches (152.7 × 152.7 cm)
About
Gagosian is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Ed Ruscha, his first in New York since 1998.
One of the most influential artists working today, Ruscha is renowned for his unique ability to blend Pop art and Conceptual art in the medium of painting. For this exhibition, Ruscha continues to explore the subject of mountains, which he first focused on in 1998.
In a series of what the artist calls “mirror paintings,” the stylized mountains, painted with their reflections, are emblazoned with palindromes and idiosyncratic witticisms such as “SEX AT NOON TAXES” and “SOLO GIGOLOS.” The landscape and the text create a double entendre, where the painting and its text mirror each other in a visual pun. The exhibition also includes a series of “fictional paintings” with anecdotes and imagined characters that offer a glimpse of seemingly mundane events.
A fully illustrated catalogue with an essay by Adam Gopnik will accompany the exhibition.
Donald Marron
Jacoba Urist profiles the legendary collector.
The Art History of Presidential Campaign Posters
Against the backdrop of the 2020 US presidential election, historian Hal Wert takes us through the artistic and political evolution of American campaign posters, from their origin in 1844 to the present. In an interview with Quarterly editor Gillian Jakab, Wert highlights an array of landmark posters and the artists who made them.
“Things Fall Apart”: Ed Ruscha’s Swiped Words
Lisa Turvey examines the range of effects conveyed by the blurred phrases in recent drawings by the artist, detailing the ways these words in motion evoke the experience of the current moment.
Artists’ Magazines
Gwen Allen recounts her discovery of cutting-edge artists’ magazines from the 1960s and 1970s and explores the roots and implications of these singular publications.
Eilshemius and Me: An Interview with Ed Ruscha
Ed Ruscha tells Viet-Nu Nguyen and Leta Grzan how he first encountered Louis Michel Eilshemius’s paintings, which of the artist’s aesthetic innovations captured his imagination, and how his own work relates to and differs from that of this “Neglected Marvel.”
The River Café Cookbook
London’s River Café, a culinary mecca perched on a bend in the River Thames, celebrated its thirtieth anniversary in 2018. To celebrate this milestone and the publication of her cookbook River Café London, cofounder Ruth Rogers sat down with Derek Blasberg to discuss the famed restaurant’s allure.
Now available
Gagosian Quarterly Fall 2019
The Fall 2019 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, featuring a detail from Sinking (2019) by Nathaniel Mary Quinn on its cover.
Ed Ruscha: A Long Way from Oklahoma
In conjunction with his exhibition VERY at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark, Ed Ruscha sat down with Kasper Bech Dyg to discuss his work.
For Notre-Dame
An exhibition at Gagosian, Paris, is raising funds to aid in the reconstruction of the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris following the devastating fire of April 2019. Gagosian directors Serena Cattaneo Adorno and Jean-Olivier Després spoke to Jennifer Knox White about the generous response of artists and others, and what the restoration of this iconic structure means across the world.
Veil and Vault
An exhibition at the Broad in Los Angeles prompts James Lawrence to examine how artists give shape and meaning to the passage of time, and how the passage of time shapes our evolving accounts of art.
Course of Empire
Ed Ruscha sat down with Tom McCarthy and Elizabeth Kornhauser, curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, to discuss the nineteenth-century artist Thomas Cole, whose Course of Empire paintings inspired a series of works by Ruscha more than a century later.
Gagosian Quarterly Winter 2018
The Winter 2018 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available. Our cover this issue comes from High Times, a new body of work by Richard Prince.
Gagosian Quarterly Spring 2018
The Spring 2018 Gagosian Quarterly with a cover by Ed Ruscha is now available for order.
In Conversation
Ed Ruscha and Joanne Northrup
Ed Ruscha sat down with JoAnne Northrup of the Nevada Museum of Art to discuss the exhibition Unsettled, which the two co-curated.
Art and Food
Mary Ann Caws and Charles Stuckey discuss the presence of food and the dining table in the history of modern art.
Desire
Diana Widmaier Picasso, curator of the exhibition Desire, reflects on the history of eroticism in art.
Spotlight
Ruscha
Ed Ruscha’s Burning Gas Station (1965–66) was a game changer. Text by Larry Gagosian.
Ed Ruscha: On the Highline
The High Line Art Program’s Cecilia Alemani discusses Ed Ruscha’s mural.
