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My image of Jen Stark's Piece of an Infinite Whole, was featured on the cover of the September 28 - October 4, 2013 issue of New Scientist.
Here is my original image –
Rather than quarantined in vitrines—though some are—the books on the walls offer their smells and textures to the viewer. The glossy, flimsy and colorful pages of Harlan Erskine’s Ten Convenient Stores (2005), for example, mimic those of magazines found within his convenient stores. Erskine’s book, clearly riffing on Ruscha’s Twentysix Gasoline Stations, documents the stores’ exteriors, highlighting their neon signs, florescent interior lights and colorful advertisements plastered on the windows. The book’s thin glossy pages, however, tactilely move us through the stores’ front doors into the shelves of cheap commercial goods we know are there but cannot see.
Impressions Lately: Poetic gesture: Ed Ruscha Books & Co at Gagosian Gallery, NY
The New York Times: Ed Ruscha’s Books and Landscapes at Gagosian
E1F mediaproject Ed Ruscha. Books and Paintings – Museum Brandhorst – Munich
archphoto: Ed Ruscha. Books & Paintings / Books & co
Artlog: SEE In Love with Books
StrayCats: Ed Ruscha – Books & Co // München
Artist Portfolio Magazine: Ed Ruscha Books & Co at Gagosian Gallery
Parka Blogs: Book Review: VARIOUS SMALL BOOKS: Referencing Various Small Books by Ed Ruscha
Publishers weekly: Nonfiction Book Review: Various Small Books: Referencing Various Small Books
The New York Times: ‘Various Small Books,’ Inspired by Ed Ruscha, and More
Ed Ruscha Books & Co. Gagosian Gallery was a fantastic success. I'm very happy to be part of it. The opening on Tuesday, March 5th was widely attended. It was great to meet so many different artists who were influenced by Ruscha. I have to thank Gagosian gallery for putting on the show and for the reception after the opening. Thanks to Jeff Brouws, Wendy Burton, and Hermann Zschiegner for making Various Small Books and Books & Co. possible. Much respect to the artist Ed Ruscha. His publication, Twentysix Gasoline Stations, provided a language of minimalist sequence and seriality which has influenced the work of many contemporary artists, as well as my book, ten convenient stores.
Here are a few images from the opening from Paul Soulellis post: Books on wires | Soulellis
BOOKS & CO. ran from March 5 - April 27, 2013 at Gagosian Gallery Madison Avenue and traveled to Munich, Germany at the Museum Brandhorst running from June 6-September 22, 2013.
