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Craig Starr has often exhibited Ed Ruscha’s work, with a number of highlights including a 2005 survey of Ruscha’s “Standard Stations,” a 2007 review of Ruscha’s “Gunpowder Ribbon Drawings,” a 2018 trek through the artist’s monosyllabic word paintings, and a 2021 showcase of Ruscha’s “liquid words” from the late 1960s. The gallery’s current Ed Ruscha: Works on Paper comprises a modest sampling of pieces from these past exhibitions alongside a handful of additions.
The first time I realized that “No, I’m not just crazy” and that there might in fact be something deeply and irredeemably fucked up about the process of life itself (not my own life in particular, but the existence of self-replicators competing for scarce resources) came when I read a letter Charles Darwin wrote to a friend.