Ed Ruscha: Rubber Bands Screenprint Through gestural abstractions and poetic

Through gestural abstractions and poetic inscriptions

Working collaboratively with local printer Hidalgo Arnéra

which are usually seen in miniature within sculptures or as intricately arranged tableaux

with the artist’s name and exhibition details in red

Benday dots

Ed Ruscha: Rubber Bands Screenprint Through gestural abstractions and poeticPrinted in Venice, California, by Hamilton Press on Rives BFK paper, this lithograph by Ed Ruscha is a cancellation proof of one of four editions depicting the phrase. It originated as a drawing on Mylar, with the horizontal markings around the words applied with a spray gun. Outlined in Boy Scout Utility Modern, an unembellished typeface of Ruschas design, the phraselike many of the artists word combinations of the past half centuryis simultaneously