Edward Rushcha: 'Your space' series
‘Everyday Magic’ September 2013
The graphic visual environment of Los Angeles and southern California, with its advertising hoardings and architecture of neon signage, provides Ed Ruscha with ongoing source material. The prints in this series are based on drawings and adopt familiar sign and billboard forms. However, they are conspicuously vacant, drawing attention to ‘billboard’ signs in the landscape and their increasing obsolescence in this digital age. In recent years, Ruchsa’s work has been increasingly occupied with ideas of vacancy and voids, evident here where he exploits the unique qualities of the aquatint process to draw attention to empty surfaces.
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![© Edward Ruscha Artwork Your space #1 this artwork made of Sugar lift flat bite and hard ground etching on Somerset Satin White paper, created in 2006-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2008.035_001_4.jpg?itok=av_E2VFR)
Your space #1 2006
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![© Edward Ruscha Artwork Your space #2 this artwork made of Colour aquatint with sugar lift flat bite and hard ground etching on Somerset Satin White paper, created in 2006-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2008.036_001_4.jpg?itok=GGVFxUpG)
Your space #2 2006
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![© Edward Ruscha Artwork Your space on building this artwork made of Colour aquatint with sugar lift flat bite and hard ground etching on Somerset Satin White paper, created in 2006-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2008.038_001_4.jpg?itok=huB_tTbb)
Your space on building 2006
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![© Edward Ruscha Artwork City space this artwork made of Colour aquatint with sugar lift flat bite and hard ground etching on Somerset Satin White paper, created in 2006-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2008.032_001_4.jpg?itok=_cA6wA1c)
City space 2006
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![© Edward Ruscha Artwork Your space gravure this artwork made of Photogravure with colour aquatint and hard ground etching on Somerset Satin White and Gampi paper chine collé, created in 2006-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2008.037_001_4.jpg?itok=lfNS-nkb)
Your space gravure 2006
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