{"product_id":"ed-ruscha-tom-sawyer-paintings-9780847873890","title":"Ed Ruscha: Tom Sawyer Paintings","description":"\u003cb\u003ePublished to document the exhibition \u003ci\u003eEd Ruscha: Tom Sawyer Paintings\u003c\/i\u003e, this lavishly illustrated bilingual English and French catalogue features new essays by Mark Godfrey and Ralph Rugoff.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eEd Ruscha: Tom Sawyer Paintings \u003c\/i\u003edocuments the 2022 exhibition of ten new paintings and a new hologram at Gagosian Paris. The exhibition brought together naturalistic paintings of simple wooden slats, which at once represent a new direction in Ruscha's work and extend his long-standing interest in realism, modernist abstraction, and the American vernacular. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe catalogue includes plate photography of the ten paintings and one hologram as well as installation views of the exhibition. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEd Ruscha was born in 1937 in Omaha, Nebraska and lives and works in Los Angeles. A career-spanning retrospective, \u003ci\u003eED RUSCHA\/NOW THEN\u003c\/i\u003e, will open at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in September 2023 and travel to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in April 2024. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSince 1993, Gagosian has presented twenty-five major exhibitions of Ruscha's work in the United States and Europe. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNew, illustrated essays by Mark Godfrey and Ralph Rugoff, offering critical and historical contexts for the work, are included in this bilingual English and French catalogue.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Godfrey \u003c\/b\u003eis an independent curator based in London. Recent and forthcoming exhibitions include \u003ci\u003eLaura Owens \u0026amp; Vincent van Gogh\u003c\/i\u003e at the Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, France; \u003ci\u003eJacqueline Humphries: jHΩ1: )\u003c\/i\u003e at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus; and \u003ci\u003eNicole Eisenman: What Happened\u003c\/i\u003e at Museum Brandhorst, Munich and the Whitechapel Gallery, London. From 2007 to 2021 he was a senior curator at Tate Modern, London, where he curated retrospectives of Francis AlYs, Alighiero Boetti, Richard Hamilton, Roni Horn, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, and Franz West, as well as \u003ci\u003eSoul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRalph Rugoff \u003c\/b\u003ehas been the director of the Hayward Gallery, London, since 2006, where he curated the exhibition \u003ci\u003eEd Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting\u003c\/i\u003e in 2009. Prior to this he was director of CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco. In 2019 he served as artistic director of the 58th Venice Biennale and in 2015 he curated the 13th Biennale de Lyon, France.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Gagosian \/ Rizzoli","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50509777830162,"sku":"9780847873890","price":46.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_07738511-8eed-4dd7-a139-1a33157e0db7.jpg?v=1730907462","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/ed-ruscha-tom-sawyer-paintings-9780847873890","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}