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As Pettibon describes, the heart, a recurring motif within the artist's oeuvre, has both personal and metaphoric significance: "In a way, it is personal because I had heart surgery...When I do hearts, for Christ’s sakes, I have Gray’s Anatomy, or I could look it up on the computer. But mine are totally inaccurate. I’ve done maybe one that was accurate, but it doesn’t have to be. Especially with the words, it does figure as a heart. It can be almost like a valentine. The heart is a metaphor for all kinds of things, like the difference between the brain and the heart, love and that sort of thing."
Raymond Pettibon’s influential oeuvre engages a wide spectrum of American iconography variously pulled from literature, art history, philosophy, religion, politics, sports, and alternative youth culture, among other sources. Intermixing image and text, his drawings and prints engage the visual rhetorics of pop and commercial culture while incorporating language from mass media as well as classic texts by writers such as William Blake, Marcel Proust, John Ruskin, and Walt Whitman.
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Raymond Pettibon's work embraces a wide spectrum of American high and low culture—from the deviations of marginal youth to art history, literature, sports, religion, politics, and sexuality. The artist's drawings take as their points of departure both the Southern California punk-rock culture of the late 1970s and 1980s and the do-it-yourself aesthetic of album covers, comics, concert flyers and fanzines that characterized the movement. Pettibon's work have come to occupy their own genre of potent and dynamic artistic commentary, ranging from punchy and political to high literary and extremely poetic.
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Raymond Pettibon was born in Tucson, Arizona in 1957. The artist received a BA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1977.
Solo exhibitions of Pettibon's work have taken place internationally, including at: the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City; the Museion in Bolzano, Italy; and the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona in Spain; among others. The artist's work has also been shown in numerous group exhibitions, including at: MoMA in New York City; the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, France; and the Contemporary Fine Arts in Berlin, Germany; among others.
Pettibon's work is in the collections of numerous institutions, including: the Art Institute of Chicago in Illinois; the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City; the Tate Gallery in London, UK; MoMA in New York City; the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona in Spain; and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, France; among others.
Pettibon lives and works in New York City.
As Pettibon describes, the heart, a recurring motif within the artist's oeuvre, has both personal and metaphoric significance: "In a way, it is personal because I had heart surgery . . . The heart is a metaphor for all kinds of things, like the difference between the brain and the heart, love and that sort of thing."More
- Unframed
- Signed and numbered recto
- Edition of 35 + 10 AP
- Published by Utopia Editions
- Printed by Derriere L'Etoile Studios, New York
- Only 2 editions available
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