Ed Ruscha: Bow-Tie Teardrop Deana Lawson Bouvier and Gagosian’s Andisheh Avini

Bouvier and Gagosian’s Andisheh Avini speak with the artist’s children Maja Hanson and Duane Hanson Jr

Mirabelle Addenda (1979)

respectively

who was killed in World War I

This book was published on the occasion of Harold Ancart: Paintings at Gagosian

Ed Ruscha: Bow-Tie Teardrop Deana Lawson Bouvier and Gagosian’s Andisheh AviniEd Ruscha created Bow Tie Teardrop in collaboration with Universal Limited Art Editions, New York, in 2003. It is from a series of prints titled Bow Tie Landscapes. Printed on heavyweight Somerset velvet paper, it depicts a mirrored image of Californias desert outcroppings overlaid with twin white teardrop motifs, pointing inward. Their silhouetted shapes act as positive images, while the landscape behind forms a curious kind of negative space.