werkz advice: go check it out today!

"Cotton Puffs, Q-Tips®, Smoke and Mirrors: The Drawings of Ed Ruscha" is currently on exhibit at the National Gallery's West Wing. It covers a large amount of Ruscha's early drawings, but near the end displays several of his better known later works.

From one Ed to another, I've always loved Ruscha's work. The mixture of text, light, novel paints (gunpowder, anyone?) and gradients always leaves me feeling as if his work is almost too polished. It's a good feeling. The new exhibit showcases a large amount of work never before seen, pulled from all over the place.

At the end of the exhibit, I couldn't bring myself to purchase the $45 book that went with it....although I'd love to receive it as a gift.(Hint! Fincher! Hint!) Instead, I pocketed a small but thick $10 collection of a whole bunch of his work (over 500 pages!) in postcard sizes.