Ed Ruscha - All Points (Gemini RS08-3440), 2008

Ed Ruscha - All Points (Gemini RS08-3440), 2008

Ed Ruscha - All Points (Gemini RS08-3440), 2008
Color lithograph on Somerset paper
A coveted Ruscha lithograph done in the patriotic American red, white and blue colors.
Pencil signed, dated and numbered 139/150 with the publishers and printer's blind stamp on the front; also bears artist and publisher copyright on the back
This work has been elegantly floated in a museum quality painted white wood frame under UV plexiglass, bearing a die-cut window in the back to reveal the publisher an copyright information.
Measurements:
Framed:
16.5 inches (vertical) x 18.5 (horizontal) x 2.75 inches
Artwork:
12 inches (vertical) x 14 inches (horizontal)
Gemini catalogue reference number: (RS08-3440
Other examples are already in the permanent collections of major institutions like the Museum of Modern Art and the National Gallery of Art.
This print was created by Ed Ruscha in October of 2008 as part of the Artists for Obama portfolio, through a collaboration between the Democratic National Committee and the Gemini G.E.L. printing studio. The project supported the first presidential campaign of Barack Obama, who was elected one month following its release. (there were 13 artist's proofs)
Publisher:
Democratic National Committee
Printer:
Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, with their blind stamp and ink stamp on the verso

About Ed Ruscha:
There are things that I’m constantly looking at that I feel should be elevated to greater status, almost to philosophical status or to a religious status. That’s why taking things out of context is a useful tool to an artist. It’s the concept of taking something that’s not subject matter and making it subject matter.
—Ed Ruscha

At the start of his artistic career, Ed Ruscha called himself an “abstract artist ... who deals with subject matter.” Abandoning academic connotations that came to be associated with Abstract Expressionism, he looked instead to tropes of advertising and brought words—as form, symbol, and material—to the forefront of painting. Working in diverse media with humor and wit, he oscillates between sign and substance, locating the sublime in landscapes both natural and artificial.