Ed Ruscha: That Was Then This Is Now II Editions de Montbliart featuring Jordan Wolfson’s House with

featuring Jordan Wolfson’s House with Face (2017) on its cover

built from papier-mâché

including a cup and a slice of cake topped with a strawberry on the back

Francis Picabia

in a chipboard slipcase

Ed Ruscha: That Was Then This Is Now II Editions de Montbliart featuring Jordan Wolfson’s House withPublished by Vermillion Editions Limited, this hand pulled 13 color lithograph by Ed Ruscha sets the wording of its title against an ominous cloudy sky. Ruscha has used the immediately recognizable Boy Scout Utility Modern, an unembellished typeface of his own design, to render the prints gnomic yet familiar idiom. The highly atmospheric backdrop shadows the motto with a cinematic tension that causes it to oscillate between optimistic and pessimistic