Ed will be doing the favor/s for the ceremony.
OK, 1988, acrylic & varnish on canvas, 24 H x 75 W (inches)
Ruscha has consistently combined the cityscape of his adopted hometown with vernacular language to communicate a particular urban experience. Encompassing painting, drawing, photography, and artist's books, Ruscha's work holds the mirror up to the banality of urban life and gives order to the barrage of mass media-fed images and information that confronts us daily. Ruscha's early career as a graphic artist continues to strongly influence his aesthetic and thematic approach.
Ruscha has been the subject of numerous museum retrospectives that have traveled internationally. The first comprehensive monograph on the artist, Richard Marshall's Ed Ruscha, was published by Phaidon in 2003. A major retrospective opened at the Hayward Gallery in London in 2009.
Born in 1937 in Omaha, Nebraska. He lives and work in Los Angeles, and currently shows with Gagosian Gallery.