Ed Ruscha

b. 1937

Ed Ruscha is an American artist associated with the Pop Art movement. He has worked in the media of painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, and film. Though born in Nebraska, Ruscha lived some 15 years in Oklahoma City before moving to Los Angeles in 1956 where he studied at the Chouinard Art Institute (now known as the California Institute of the Arts) under Robert Irwin and Emerson Woelffer from 1956 through 1960.

Ruscha merges art and language, using words as images to explore the intersection of pop culture, communication, and abstraction. Drawing from advertising and the American landscape, his paintings, photographs and artist’s books transform everyday words and symbols into reflections on modern life and visual culture.

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