FRANCESCA GABBIANI & EDDIE RUSCHA

Selected exhibitions include Life on Earth: Art and Ecofeminism and Gossip (performance), The Brick, Los Angeles, CA and West Museum Den Haag, The Netherlands (2025); Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles (2023); Cedric Bardawil Gallery, London (2023); Mixografia, Los Angeles (2022); Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas (2021); Monica De Cardenas, Milan, Italy (2021) and Zuoz, Switzerland (2020); GAVLAK, Los Angeles (2018), and film screenings at the Malibu International Film Festival, Los Angeles (2023, awarded Best Experimental Short); Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills at San Vicente Bungalows (2022); and the Getty Center, Los Angeles (2022).

Eddie Ruscha is a multi-disciplinary artist living in Los Angeles, California. Art and music have always gone hand in hand for Ruscha and in both mediums he attempts to bridge elements of mysticism, beauty and humor of the subconscious. In his visual art, he skirts the usual results of the airbrush medium and attempts to shatter forms and skew perspectives flirting with a style sometimes devoid of the artist’s hand, infusing warmth in color and tone.

Ruscha’s visual style is highly informed by unschooled graphic design, animation, psychedelic album, comic and poster art, Italian interiors and fashion, as well as all manner of fine art movements in the hope of blurring the lines between them.

Ruscha has released records with labels such as Beats In Space/RVNG, Good Morning Tapes, Invisible Inc. amongst others, producing different styles of electronic psychedelic music in addition to creating much of the visual art to accompany it. Recent projects include Green Mirror (Secret Circuit) and Who Are You (E Ruscha V), as well as film score compositions and ambient soundscapes for the ongoing series of Slow Show performances choreographed by Dimitri Chamblas, and presented at The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Los Angeles, Lafayette Anticipation, Paris and LUMA, Arles. He recently made an album with Peter Zummo, one of Arthur Russell’s most consistent collaborators.

Ruscha has co-composed several film scores with Oscar winning sound designer, Nicolas Becker. Black Flies was presented at the Cannes film festival in 2023.

Eddie Ruscha graduated from California Institute of Art in 1991. His work has been in numerous exhibitions, notably The London Institute, Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain. Ruscha is represented by Cedric Bardawil Gallery in London.

Text courtesy Wilding Cran Gallery