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Porcelain plate. Signed in plate. From the Drum skins series. He Up and Went Downtown by Ed Ruscha, created in 2020, is a porcelain plate featuring Ruscha’s signature use of text as image. The phrase encircles a smoky, sepia-toned center, evoking the residue of use or time. With its cryptic, colloquial tone, the text feels both poetic and narrative, characteristic of Ruscha’s explorations of language, place, and Americana. The piece blurs the line between functional object and conceptual artwork. Produced in an edition of 175 and signed in the plate, this work reflects Ruscha’s enduring ability to transform the mundane into the quietly profound.
He Up and Went Downtown, 2020
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Porcelain plate. Signed in plate. From the Drum skins series. He Up and Went Downtown by Ed Ruscha, created in 2020, is a porcelain plate featuring Ruscha’s signature use of text as image. The phrase encircles a smoky, sepia-toned center, evoking the residue of use or time. With its cryptic, colloquial tone, the text feels both poetic and narrative, characteristic of Ruscha’s explorations of language, place, and Americana. The piece blurs the line between functional object and conceptual artwork. Produced in an edition of 175 and signed in the plate, this work reflects Ruscha’s enduring ability to transform the mundane into the quietly profound.
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What is New Topographics?
New Topographics is a term coined in 1975 by curator William Jenkins to describe a group of photographers whose work focused on formal black-and-white images of urban and industrial landscapes. Jenkins initially described their aesthetic as banal, but the photographers themselves argued that their compositions were as significant as those of natural landscapes, emphasizing the beauty in everyday, man-made environments.
