Ed Ruscha TONIGHT

As part of the Harry Ransom Lectures, artist Ed Ruscha discusses his life and work on Thursday, April 2, at 7 p.m. at the AT&T Conference Center Amphitheatre, located at 1900 University Avenue.

For those of you who can not attend there will be a live webcast.

Seating is free, but limited. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m.

Born in 1937 in Omaha, Nebraska, Edward Ruscha moved to Los Angeles in 1956 to attend the Chouinard Art Institute. He had his first solo exhibition in 1963 at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles. He currently shows with the Gagosian Gallery in New York, Beverly Hills, and London.

Encompassing photography, drawing, painting, and artists' books, Ruscha's work has been the subject of retrospectives at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1983), the Centre Georges Pompidou (1989), and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (2000). In 2001, Ruscha was elected to The American Academy of Arts and Letters as a member of the Department of Art. The following year a major exhibition of Ruscha's work opened in Spain at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia.

Thirtyfour Parking Lots in Los Angeles 1967
Dodgers Stadium, 1000 Elysian Park Ave
Courtesy Gagosian Gallery © the artist