Ed Ruscha: Industrial Strength Betty Woodman Designed by American textile artist

Designed by American textile artist Jim Drain

in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum

Contemporary artists have discovered the potential of wallpaper as a medium for both its aesthetic and political overtones

and whatever they wrote would be projected at the other end of the cloth

” This was a lot for John to swallow

Ed Ruscha: Industrial Strength Betty Woodman Designed by American textile artistThis catalogue was published on the occasion of the completion of Ed Ruschas Industrial Strength Sleep, a 23 foot by 9 foot tapestry created at The Fabric Workshop and Museum and based on his 1989 painting of the same name. In his introductory essay, curator Paul Schimmel explains the artists process: Though Ruscha has consistently pushed the boundaries of his own iconography, which typically comprises concrete words and phrases, it is in fact his