Ed Ruscha: On the Road

Ed Ruscha, Greatest Passers, 2010, acrylic on canvas, 38” x 64”. Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery, New York.

Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami

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By Suzanne Cohen

“Ed Ruscha: On the Road” brings together two great visionaries of art and language-Ed Ruscha and Jack Kerouac.

Kerouac wrote On the Road in 1951 as a continuous 120-foot-long scroll, recording in 20 days his experiences during road trips in the U.S. and Mexico in the late 1940s. Over the last few years, Ruscha has continued to explore his own fascination with the shifting emblems of American life by turning his keen aesthetic sensibility to Kerouac’s novel. In 2009, Ruscha created his own artist book version of On the Road, and illustrated with photographs that he took, commissioned or found, he has created a new body of paintings and drawings that take their inspiration from passages in Kerouac’s novel.

This exhibition includes Ruscha’s edition of Kerouac’s legendary novel, six large paintings on canvas and 10 drawings on museum board, each taking its text from On the Road. Whether painted over snow-capped mountains in Ruscha’s signature “all-capitals” typography or drawn atop delicately spattered abstract backgrounds, Kerouac’s words provide the artist with a means to explore his own archetypal landscape. Ruscha’s work holds the mirror up to the banality of urban life and give order to the barrage of mass-media-fed images and information that confront us daily. Through September 2, 2012.