Ed Ruscha: Ghost Station Storm de Hirsch the Action

the Action

As a group

Saville combines snaking charcoal lines with soft passages of color

and a journey into the darkness of addiction

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Ed Ruscha: Ghost Station Storm de Hirsch the ActionProduced in collaboration with the Los Angelesbased Mixografia workshop, Ghost Station (2011) is an inkless print that revisits one of Ed Ruschas most iconic compositions. Drained of the saturated colors of his painting Standard Station, Amarillo, Texas (1963), this work interprets the gas stations architecture in a unique graphic form. The proprietary printmaking method developed by Mixografia involves a cast three dimensional copper printing plate,