articles/Ed Ruscha to artists put the pedal to the metal — theartnewspaper.com

Ed Ruscha in LA, 1964, photographed by Dennis Hopper An exhibition of new works by Ed Ruscha opened last week at the Gagosian Gallery in Rome. “Ed Ruscha: Paintings” (until 17 January) sees the artist exploring familiar territory on the highways and byways of greater Los Angeles. The latest acrylic paintings “all have close ties to the ‘Psycho Spaghetti Westerns’, which are studies of objects found discarded by the side of the road,” he told our sister paper Il Giornale dell’Arte. Explaining the inspiration behind the earlier series, he said: “I got interested in trash balls, landscape litter, real worn-out things that look like scary animals. Debris, discharge, dustballs, discards, disarray, dispersal. I think of all those descriptive ‘D’ words.”

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