Edward Ruscha

Artist

1937-12-16

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Edward Ruscha

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Ed Ruscha

Ausstellung, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., June 29-September 17, 2000; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, November 20, 2000-February 5, 2001; Miami Art Museum, March 22-June 3 2001 ... : Katalog
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Edward Ruscha: 1983-1987
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People refuse to believe that I've never been to Starbucks or Disneyland.
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I'm very stodgy. I'm always looking at old photos of California and Los Angeles, knowing that what I'm looking at is now full of houses. There used to be vacant lots in Los Angeles, now all taken up by three-storey boxes - it's all getting infilled.
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I was attracted to the concept of Hollywood and the lifestyle here. But I've grown to mistrust it because it has changed. I didn't bargain for digital access parking in some concrete structure. Real heaven for me was to drive somewhere and park right in front. Now the city is going vertical.
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When you're on a highway, viewing the western U.S. with the mountains and the flatness and the desert and all that, it's very much like my paintings.
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