Sculpting with Light: Contemporary Art and Holography
Group Exhibition
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Through November 24, 2024

Holograms produce the magical illusion of three-dimensional objects floating in space. They were made possible by the invention of laser technology in the 1960s, and since then, many artists have experimented with the art form. This exhibition presents holograms by John Baldessari, Louise Bourgeois, Ed Ruscha, and other artists who were invited by the C Project to explore the creative potential of the medium in the 1990s. Deana Lawson turned to holography to expand her photographic practice around 2020. The master technician in both instances was artist Matthew Schreiber, whose work is also featured.

Ed Ruscha
Works on Paper
Hall Art Foundation, New York
Through December 1, 2024

The Hall Art Foundation is pleased to announce an exhibition by the internationally acclaimed American artist, Ed Ruscha to be held at its galleries in Reading, Vermont. The show begins with a group of Ruscha's seminal black-and-white photographs from 1962 and presents over a dozen works on paper that span five decades of his career.  Since the 1960s, Ruscha has explored the role of language in painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, and bookmaking by using the meaning and formal qualities of words as his principle subject matter. 

Ed Ruscha
Metro Mattresses
November 3, 2015–January 16, 2016
Berlin

"The mattresses become not just litter in the landscape but more like scary animals."
– Ed Ruscha

Ed Ruscha has been casting his eye across the landscapes of the American west for over 50 years, taking in everything from gas stations to swimming pools to sublime mountain ranges. With their clarity and deadpan wit, his photographs, drawings and paintings impart a mood of playful awe on everyday monuments. The motifs for his new series Metro Mattresses were found, like so many of the subjects of his work, on the streets of Los Angeles.

Ed Ruscha
Apartments, Parking Lots, Palm Trees and others: Films, Photographs and Drawings from 1961 to 1975
September 3–October 23, 2010
Berlin

Since the early 1960s, Ed Ruscha has created an extensive painterly, graphical, and photographic oeuvre. Ruscha first considered working as a graphic artist but soon developed a deep passion for painting and photography. Inspired by the American photography of the 1940s and 1950s, Ruscha developed an independent conceptual approach.

Source Codes
Kenneth Anger, Richard Artschwager, John Baldessari, Bruce Conner, Richard Hamilton, David Lamelas, Richard Prince, Ed Ruscha, Lucas Samaras, John Stezaker, Paul Thek
June 26–August 29, 2009
Berlin

Source Codes juxtaposes a selection of works by a number of artists and filmmakers from Europe and America who mapped essential conceptual groundwork in the 1960s and 1970s and whose work remains influential to many artists today By examining new ways to rethink and translate visual information and cultural codes in the gaps between Minimalism and Pop Art, and through an interest in process-based performative practice, their work has exerted significant influence on younger artists in a variety of ways.

Ed Ruscha
With and Without Words
October 31, 2002–February 28, 2003
Cologne

Ed Ruscha is one of the first Americans to criticize the mechanisms and means of pop culture in his work by making use of its means and visual language. In this way, he also paid homage to precisely these visual languages, on whose effectiveness and recognition effect he could and can rely. Furthermore, he is one of the protagonists in relation to the examination of language in the visual arts, as is already explicitly stated in the title of the Munich exhibition, because pictures are exhibited "with and without words".

Ed Ruscha
With and Without Words
September 13–October 19, 2002
Munich

"Hints of narrow pop culture meanings in conventionally insignificant elements and vice versa are the actual material (…) with which Ruscha deals with what has become classic and casual."
-Diederich Diederichsen

Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to present new pictures and works on paper by Ed Ruscha. He is one of the first Americans to criticize the mechanisms and means of pop culture in his work by making use of its means and visual language. In this way, he also paid homage to precisely these visual languages, on whose effectiveness and recognition effect he could and can rely.

Das Licht von der anderen Seite – Teil II Photographie
John Baldessari, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Anna & Bernhard Blume, Victor Burgin, Walter Dahn, Jimmy De Sana, Barbara Ess, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Peter Fischli David Weiss, Hamish Fulton, Günther Förg, Georg Herold, Martin Kippenberger, Imi Knoebel, Thomas Locher, Allan Mccollum, Sigmar Polke, Richard Prince, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman, Jeff Wall, James Welling, Richard Wentworth
September 17–October 29, 1988
Cologne