November 17, 2023 – January 5, 2024

Winter Group Show

Crown Point Press

In Person Viewing:

20 Hawthorne Street San Francisco CA 94105

Online Viewing:

https://crownpoint.com/exhibition/11500/

SAN FRANCISCO, CA: Crown Point Press announces six new small prints by Ed Ruscha and a
special presentation of prints by Robert Bechtle in Winter Group Exhibition. The exhibition also
includes prints by Tomma Abts, Chris Burden, Julie Mehretu, Odili Donald Odita, Laurie Reid, Pat
Steir, Wayne Thiebaud, Richard Tuttle, and Fred Wilson.
Ed Ruscha made the new exhibited prints in the fall of 2023. Each image is of two words that make
up the print’s title. The prints are small but the impact is powerful. As a group they suggest a
narrative that sparks an idea or a personal reference. Ruscha places language at the center of his
practice, and he has made numerous prints, drawings and paintings that feature bold letters on
abstract, atmospheric backgrounds.
In conjuction with Robert Bechtle: Prints and Drawings at the de Young Museum Crown Point presents
a selection of working proofs from Bechtle’s 2002 print, 20th Street Capri. Bechtle frequently made
prints at Crown Point Press starting in 1967. He made his last etching, Three Houses on Pennsylvania
Avenue, in 2011. In 2013 he created a series of 10 monotypes.

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