The first major UK retrospective to focus exclusively on the paintings of one of the most influential and pioneering American artists of the past half-century. Spanning Ed Ruscha’s entire career, the exhibition features 78 paintings, many on public display for the first time, and reveals the depth and breadth of Ruscha’s achievement as a painter whose interests in printed matter, graphic design, cinema, photography and the cultural landscape of the American West make his elegant and provocative work both playful and subversive.

Image 1: Standard Station, 1966. Private collection © Ed Ruscha 2009. Photo: Paul Ruscha.

Image 2: The Mountain, 1998, Alison and Warren Kanders © Ed Ruscha 2009