"Raymond Pettibon: Pictures, Literary Voices and Surfers, Too". By Nancy Princenthal, December 30, 2016, The New York Times "Art & Design Section". In his energetic drawings of baseball greats,... Read full biography
"Raymond Pettibon: Pictures, Literary Voices and Surfers, Too". By Nancy Princenthal, December 30, 2016, The New York Times "Art & Design Section". In his energetic drawings of baseball greats, Hollywood legends, comic book heroes and rock stars, of drug addicts, bikers and gangsters, Charles... Read full biography
"Raymond Pettibon: Pictures, Literary Voices and Surfers, Too". By Nancy Princenthal, December 30, 2016, The New York Times "Art & Design Section". In his energetic drawings of baseball greats, Hollywood legends, comic book heroes and rock stars, of drug addicts, bikers and gangsters, Charles Manson and J. Edgar Hoover, Raymond Pettibon gives us the full sweep of the American social landscape. Then he detonates it. Compounding his images — urgent, bold, often hallucinatory — are headlong... Read full biography
"Raymond Pettibon: Pictures, Literary Voices and Surfers, Too". By Nancy Princenthal, December 30, 2016, The New York Times "Art & Design Section". In his energetic drawings of baseball greats, Hollywood legends, comic book heroes and rock stars, of drug addicts, bikers and gangsters, Charles Manson and J. Edgar Hoover, Raymond Pettibon gives us the full sweep of the American social landscape. Then he detonates it. Compounding his images — urgent, bold, often hallucinatory — are headlong inscriptions that mix original writing and material borrowed from authors spanning centuries. The medley can be clamorous. It is a vision of populism recast as anarchy. “If there’s any voice, it’s multiple, even within the same work,” Mr. Pettibon said... Read full biography
"Raymond Pettibon: Pictures, Literary Voices and Surfers, Too". By Nancy Princenthal, December 30, 2016, The New York Times "Art & Design Section". In his energetic drawings of baseball greats, Hollywood legends, comic book heroes and rock stars, of drug addicts, bikers and gangsters, Charles Manson and J. Edgar Hoover, Raymond Pettibon gives us the full sweep of the American social landscape. Then he detonates it. Compounding his images — urgent, bold, often hallucinatory — are headlong inscriptions that mix original writing and material borrowed from authors spanning centuries. The medley can be clamorous. It is a vision of populism recast as anarchy. “If there’s any voice, it’s multiple, even within the same work,” Mr. Pettibon said during my recent visit to his studio. Rumpled and barefoot on a cold winter day, Mr. Pettibon, who turns 60... Read full biography
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