Ed Ruscha: Zoot Soot Andrew Durbin Valentine Penrose

Valentine Penrose

Ruscha’s images and idioms are at once irreducibly straightforward and heroically expansive

This poster featuring Painful Memories/Forgotten Tears (2008) was produced in 2010

and the canon of Western art

Michael Holman

Ed Ruscha: Zoot Soot Andrew Durbin Valentine PenrosePrinted in Los Angeles by Modern Multiples Fine Art Editions on watercolor paper in thirty five colors, in thirty five runs, from thirty five screens, Ed Ruschas screen print Zoot Soot combines a photographic representation of a quintessential California skyscape with an image of a 2015 edition by the artist in which the title phrase is die cut from handmade paper flecked with colored threads. Exemplifying the sunshine noir aesthetic often identified