Ed Ruscha: Dead End 3 Poster and large-scale works on paper

and large-scale works on paper

allowing the operation of chance to inflect a distinctive style of painterly application and blur the boundary between observation and imagination

Christine Mehring

The installation featured four piano sculptures created for the exhibition

described the project as a “monumental marriage of art and commerce

Ed Ruscha: Dead End 3 Poster and large-scale works on paperDerived from a maquette of an aluminum Dead End notice that Ed Ruscha painted for his desert property near Joshua Tree National Park, this print belongs to one of three editions from the Rusty Signs series. It was produced by the Los Angelesbased workshop Mixografia using a proprietary process for printing high relief works they first developed in the 1970s. Printing on wet, handmade paper yields the mottled surface evocative of a weathered sign, and