![]() ![]() Image Credit: Photo Credit: Miller Mobley Once, says Wilson, "Ed knew I was going off to make a movie and he said, 'Good luck on your celluloid light projection.' I always thought that was a funny thing to call a movie." (Ruscha and his wife, Danna, got Wilson into Breaking Bad.) One of his Ruscha pieces, a painting of a mountain, is called The Celluloid Light Projection, a Ruscha-ism for a movie. Wilson met Ruscha through artist Tony Shafrazi, and the actor not only has acquired three of his works, but the two have become friends. Within a few years, the actor, who next appears in Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel, fell into the art world’s gravitational pull, becoming friends with New York gallerist and artist Tony Shafrazi, hitting the Art Basel Miami Beach art fair regularly and collecting works by Cady Noland, Donald Judd and Andy Warhol. "Me and my brothers and Wes would go to The Ivy at the Shore when my parents came to visit," recalls Wilson, "and they had a great big painting that said, 'Brave Men Run in My Family.' We all loved that, my dad in particular. When Owen Wilson was in his 20s and in Los Angeles to film scenes for his breakout 1996 movie Bottle Rocket, he went to The Ivy at the Shore and saw a painting by Ed Ruscha, famed for his landscape and text-based works that cast a deadpan eye on Southern California’s man-made environment. ![]() Image Credit: Photo Credit: Spencer Lowell ![]()
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