Cotton puffs, Q-Tips, Smoke and Mirrors: The Drawings of Ed Ruscha
June 23–Sept 26, 2004
Cotton puffs, Q-Tips, Smoke and Mirrors: The Drawings of Ed Ruscha
Edward Ruscha, Standard Study #2, 1962. Opaque watercolor, pen and ink, and graphite on paper, sheet: 5 3/8 × 10 1/8 in. (13.7 × 25.7 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of The American Contemporary Art Foundation, Inc., Leonard A. Lauder, President 2005.64. © Ed Ruscha
This landmark exhibition presents more than two hundred of Ed Ruscha’s original works on paper, ranging from depictions of vernacular objects, trademarks, and gas stations, to renderings of words and phrases in countless stylistic variations. His use of unusual media, including fruit and vegetable juices, gunpowder, blood, and tobacco juice, further attests to the ingenuity of this major American artist.
Cotton puffs, Q-Tips, Smoke and Mirrors: The Drawings of Ed Ruscha was curated by Margit Rowell.