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Ed Ruscha: OK LA
$49.50
This fully illustrated catalogue documents the landmark exhibition as installed at Oklahoma Contemporary. Featuring photography of all works in the landmark exhibition, the hardcover book includes essays by co-curators Dr. Alexandra Schwartz and Jeremiah Matthew Davis, an art historical essay by Dr. Kirsten Olds, a personal essay and poem by Ron Padgett and an innovative biography of the artist by catalogue editor Carina Evangelista.
Ed OKLA was the first exhibition to focus on the artist’s Oklahoma roots — his family, his upbringing and his discovery of his calling as an artist. It was also, remarkably, his first solo museum exhibition in his home state. Ruscha lived in Oklahoma City from the ages of 5 to 18: the formative years of both his life and his artistic sensibility. His Midwestern childhood had a profound impact on his art, which the exhibition explored through 74 works from all phases of his career, organized into five interrelated thematic chapters. The exhibition was co-curated by Alexandra Schwartz, a New York-based independent curator who has written extensively about Ruscha's work, and Oklahoma Contemporary in close coordination with the artist and his studio.
- Hardcover
- 188 pages
- Published 2021
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