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...that any structure should be a spare, unified form clearly expressing its underlying function. All the while, Gehry was powerfully interested in painting and sculpture and the rising West Coast art scene. He counted as friends some of its emerging stars, including Billy Al Bengston, Ed Moses and Ed Ruscha. What he really wanted was the freedom they had to play with surrealism, assemblage and pop imagery...
...RUSCHA gives a talk in the Carpenter Center auditorium on Thu., March...
...Landmark Pictures," currently at the Busch-Reisinger, artists Ed Ruscha and Andreas Gursky maintain that precious, otherworldly estrangement in chronicling the very ordinary. Ruscha, in fact, literally takes us into the plane with him in his series "34 Parking Lots in Los Angeles." Shot aerially, their meticulously drawn lines, directional arrows and predictably spaced gas stains are suddenly mesmerizing--and humorous. One stand-out is the photograph of the Dodger Stadium parking lots: emanating radially from the stadium like the leaves of an artichoke, they are at once industrial and organic. Ruscha's painted evocations of Los Angeles' grid-like...
...Gursky, similarly, is committed to cataloguing the structural artifice left behind by humanity. The pairing with Ruscha is a bit unusual, but it works. Despite differences in age, geographical origin and medium--Ruscha is an LA-based artist who got his start as a humble sign-painter in the '60s, while Gursky is a much younger, German-born photographer--the two engage with at times startlingly similar themes. In his images of endless hotel interiors, meticulously arranged 99-cent stores and cold Prada showrooms, Gursky, like Ruscha, presents everyday structures as pure expressions both of the human and something more...
...Ruscha's works are emotionally and graphically distant from their demure 19th century predecessors. They are linked by photography's challenge: creating image and form out of light and shadow. Chasing Shadows is well-integrated, leading the viewer easily through broad conceptual themes...