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...We’d like to expand our public programming. The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts presents a major lecture series each year, bringing major artists to CCVA to show and discuss their work. This past fall we have had Ed Ruscha, Maya Lin, and Jane and Louise Wilson. In the spring we will host Laura Mulvey, Wayne Guyton and Kelley Walker, and Julie Mehretu. This is an extraordinary opportunity for our students to meet, hear, and talk with these established artists...
Born in Omaha, Neb. in 1937, Ruscha is commonly characterized as a member of the Pop Art movement, though his work—which includes paintings, prints, and photographic books—defies categorization. Most notably, Ruscha has sought to explore the place of language in visual art in paintings like “Standard Station,” perhaps his most famous, and another in which dark clouds loom behind the words “SAFE AND EFFECTIVE MEDICATION...
...mirror up to the banality of urban life and gives order to the barrage of mass media-fed images and information that confront us daily,” writes the Carpenter Center in their online description of the event. And whether such sweeping praise is true or whether Ruscha just really knows how to sharpen knives, the lecture promises to be interesting...
...Angeles avant garde; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles. The first to create a museum exhibition for Frank Stella and a retrospective of Dadaist Marcel Duchamp, Hopps opened the Ferus Gallery with artist Ed Kienholz in 1957, which became a pre-eminent launching pad for such artists as Ed Ruscha and Robert Irwin...
...Ruscha added that he gave the same right to artists of other media...