Ed Ruscha: Tom Sawyer Paintings

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This book was published on the occasion of Ed Ruscha: Tom Sawyer Paintings at Gagosian, rue de Ponthieu, Paris. The exhibition featured a hologram and ten paintings, several of which depict wooden slats. Alluding to a famous episode in Mark Twain’s classic 1876 novel in which Sawyer cons his friends into whitewashing a fence, they also evoke earlier Ruscha works that reference Twain’s writings and extend the artist’s longtime fascination with wood as image, subject, support, and container. With compositions…