Ed Ruscha: Paintings Peter Galassi evoking a synesthetic merging of

evoking a synesthetic merging of the senses

The result is no single history

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Rude in the Good Way reads as both a self-aware echo of those foundational projects and another step forward in his practice

Ed Ruscha: Paintings Peter Galassi evoking a synesthetic merging ofThis poster featuring Gators (2014) was produced in 2014, in conjunction with Ed Ruscha: Paintings at Gagosian, Rome. The exhibition included recent paintings in which the artist continues to meditate on the melancholy of the Psycho Spaghetti Westerns in complex pictures that conflate his signature elements with the visual devices, perspectival techniques, and refined atmospheres of old master paintings to depict the romantic road trip of youth