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...Edward Ruscha's "Sweets, Meets, Sheets" (1975), presented as a sleek Madison Avenue advertising image, pokes fun at the commercialization of sex in selling products. The vertical composition of Hershey's Kisses, beef flank and packaged bedsheets on a red satin background demeans the conspicuous consumption of flesh, advertising and materialistic goods...
Graduate School of Design Gund Hall Gallery. "The Books of Ed Ruscha," through Oct. 29. Works by the 1993 Rouse Visiting Artist...
...West Coast branch of Conceptualism, which Wegman joined during the two years he spent in the Los Angeles area starting in 1970, had the best comedians. In his early days Ed Ruscha photographed parking-lot patterns from the air: a satirist's geometric abstraction. Bruce Nauman photographed himself performing visual puns, like shooting water from his mouth and calling the picture Self-Portrait as a Fountain. And Wegman started making deadpan videos of himself spraying an entire can of deodorant into his armpit. When his new Weimaraner got into the act, Wegman recognized that it was enough to tape...
...hard to take all that seriously the marginal artists whose work Alloway has selected. Their work may have this or that to do with signs, but on aesthetic grounds it varies between limpness and indulgent kitsch, typified by the show's California contingent, Joe Goode, Ed Ruscha and Mel Ramos...
Goode's constructed fragments of staircases are among the emptiest works of art ever to travel east of the Rockies, and Ruscha's variations on the painted word-as-object, which derive from Jasper Johns, are so cute that Alloway's normal eloquence is reduced to calling them "deceptively obvious." In fact, their obviousness is not deceptive; it is just obvious. And Ramos, whose Batmen and Playboy Bunnies go as far as pop ever went in unctuous, opportunistic triviality, seems to be in the show merely to illustrate an amusing feedback loop between pop and commercial...