Ed Ruscha: Sin—Without Vincent Pecoil and a poem by Patricia

and a poem by Patricia Waters that reads “Rose / Brief

abstraction and figuration

entertainment

recurring in his work since the late 1980s

Ed Ruscha: Sin—Without Vincent Pecoil and a poem by PatriciaPrinted by the Minneapolis based workshop Akasha on Arches Special paper, SinWithout is based on a 1991 painting made during a period in which Ed Ruscha often worked in black and white. In the lithograph, his standard low horizon line anchors an arresting cloudscape, its hints of cinematic drama or menace offset by rays of piercing light. While Ruscha notes that the word sin signifies without in Spanish, he also proposes a suggestive link between the