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I think of working in a series as hiccups being on top of echoes. Ed Ruscha . Crown Point Press announces the release of a new etching, Sign in a Sandstorm, by Ed Ruscha. It is the second print in a series of images of signs that Ruscha has been working on. The first print in the series is Lonely Highway, published in2019. These signs can be seen as hopeful. We are facing challenging times, but another sign ahead encourages us to keep going as we make our way down the ...road. . Gas stations, billboards, sunsets, and signs are common motifs in Ruscha’s work, which is often characterized by a twist of deadpan humor. The motifs are drawn from the artist’s road trips across America, traveling from his hometown in Oklahoma to Los Angeles, where he currently lives. Sign in a Sandstorm depicts a sign that reads STATE LINE standing in an empty landscape. Beige flecks fill the space, like sand particles blowing in the desert. Ruscha often uses a speckled texture in his work. It renders a dust-like or gravel-like appearance, and creates a static interference within the images. For this print, Ruscha used direct gravure, a method of photogravure that begins with a handmade drawing instead of an image from a camera. He drew on a transparent film in his studio, then sent the drawing to Crown Point to be etched into a copper plate. The finished image is sharp and straightforward, similar to the first print in his series, Lonely Highway. . Image1: Sign in a Sandstorm, 2021 Direct gravure printed in black and brown. Image: 23 x 19; sheet: 28 x 24 Edition 40 . Image 2: Lonely Highway, 2019 Color direct gravure with aquatint. Image: 15 x 24; sheet 21x 29 Edition 40 . Click the link in our bio for more details about the Ed Ruscha prints. . Signs of a Series is on view in the Crown Point gallery until April 30th. The gallery hours are 9AM to 5PM, Monday to Friday. We are following California’s health order. Appointments are suggested. . #crownpointpress @crownpointpress #edruscha #signs #roadtrip #americanart See more

Signs in a Series - https://mailchi.mp/crownpoint.com/signs-in-a-series

It’s an unpeopled environment in which the viewer (and I) can enter a world and experience it - or project onto it - whatever emotions, or reactions, or ideas, or prejudices we bring to it. My paintings are not meant to give you an idea of anything in particular, but they’re built so that you can contemplate the world, or understand some emotional things. April Gornik . In 1998, Kathan Brown, founder of Crown Point Press, invited eleven artists to make landscape-inspired e...tchings in conjunction with her book, Why Draw a Landscape? In the book, Brown discusses each artist’s unique approach to landscape and examines the attitudes and ideas that affect the relationship between the self and the real world. April Gornik is one of the artists included in the project. She began the idea for her print in her studio by working on Mylar, then traveled to the Crown Point studio to work on copper plates. Her etching Stepped Waterfall (Image above), is a color direct gravure with spit bite aquatint and is based on an oil painting of the same title from 1995. . Gornik’s print is included in our winter group exhibition, Grounded, on view until March 1st. . April Gornik Stepped Waterfall, 1998 Color direct gravure with spit bite aquatint Sheet: 20 x 16; image: 7 x 7 Edition 50 Price: $1,800 . We are following California’s health order. Appointments to visit the gallery are suggested. The gallery hours are 9AM to 5PM, Monday through Friday. . #crownpointpress @crownpointpress #groupexhibition #winter #landscape #printmaking #aquatint #etching #printpublishing #collectprints #worksonpaper #contemporaryprint #printshop #newyorkartist #sanfrancisco #fridaymood #instagram See more

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