Raymond Pettibon
Raymond Pettibon | |
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Born | Raymond Ginn June 16, 1957 UCLA |
Known for | Drawing, Video art, Installation art |
Raymond Pettibon (born Raymond Ginn, June 16, 1957) is an American artist who lives and works in New York City.[2] Pettibon came to prominence in the early 1980s in the southern California punk rock scene, creating posters and album art mainly for groups on SST Records, owned and operated by his older brother, Greg Ginn. He has subsequently become widely recognized in the fine art world for using American iconography variously pulled from literature, art history, philosophy, and religion to politics, sport, and sexuality.
As Holland Cotter noted in The New York Times:
Mr. Pettibon is, with gratifying regularity, a sharp political critic. It is the most interesting thing about him. His targets can be quite specific: the drug-wrecked hippie movement of the 1960s, the American war in Iraq. Yet his entire output, despite interludes of lyricism and nostalgia, and a running strain of stand-up humor, is a steady indictment of American culture as he has lived it over the past 60 years.[3]
Early life
The fourth of five children born to R.C.K. Ginn, an English teacher who published several spy novels;
In 1976, his brother, guitarist/songwriter Greg Ginn, founded the influential punk rock band Black Flag. Initially, Pettibon had been a bass player in the group when it was known by the name Panic. When the band discovered that another band called Panic existed, Pettibon suggested the name Black Flag and designed their distinctive "four bars" logo, a stylized black flag rippling in the wind.[8] Around the same time, Pettibon adopted his new surname, from the nickname petit bon (good little one) given to him by his father.[9] Pettibon's artwork appeared on fliers, album covers and gift items (T-shirts, stickers and skateboards) for Black Flag through the early 1980s, and he became well known in the Los Angeles punk rock scene.[10]
Pettibon is married to video artist Aïda Ruilova, with whom he has a son.[11] He is an avid sports fan.[12]
Work
Known for his comic-like drawings with disturbing, ironic or ambiguous text, Pettibon's subject matter is sometimes violent and anti-authoritarian. From the late 1970s through the mid-1980s, he was closely associated with the punk rock band Black Flag and the record label SST Records, both founded by his older brother Greg Ginn. In addition, Pettibon designed the cover of the 1990 Sonic Youth album Goo; bassist Kim Gordon had been a longtime admirer of Pettibon's art and written about him for Artforum in the 1980s.[4] Beginning in the mid-1980s, he became a well-known figure in the contemporary art scene.
Pettibon works primarily with India ink on paper and many of his early drawings are black and white, although he sometimes introduces color through the use of
A retrospective of Pettibon's work entitled A Pen of All Work, spanned three floors of New York City's New Museum in 2017.[16][17]
Public art projects
For New York's High Line, Pettibon created a temporary billboard in 2013, displaying a 2010 baseball drawing called No Title (Safe he called ...) and featuring Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers sliding home.[18]
Other projects
In addition to his works on paper, Pettibon has also made animations from his drawings, live action films from his own scripts, unique artist's books, fanzines, prints, and large permanent wall drawings that often include an arrangement of his own works on paper almost creating an installation of collage. In the early 1990s, fellow artist Mike Kelley played guitar on an album of songs that Pettibon recorded for the independent label Blast First out of New York and London.[4] He is now the lead singer of the Niche Makers, a band based in Venice, California.[19]
Together with German sound artist Oliver Augst he released the musical "The Whole World Is Watching" (with Schorsch Kamerun, Keiji Haino and Marcel Daemgen) in 2007 as part of the MaerzMusik festival of the Berliner Festspiele, Berlin.
Pettibon's artwork inspired the music video for the 2011 song "Monarchy of Roses" by Red Hot Chili Peppers. Pettibon is also mentioned in the song's lyrics.
In June 2013, a new documentary series, The Art of Punk was released on YouTube. The first episode features the art of Black Flag and Pettibon.[20]
Radio plays
- What we know is secret (Augst/Pettibon), Deutschlandfunk 2019
- The whole world is watching (Augst/Pettibon), Hessischer Rundfunk (national public radio in Germany) 2008
- Long live the people of the revolution (Augst/Korn), Hessischer Rundfunk 2004
Album covers (selection)
- Nature Boy Vinyl Single, Augst/Pettibon, Words and Music: Eden Ahbez, Squama Recordings 2024[21]
- To-Day Vinyl Single, Augst/Pettibon, Squama Recordings 2023[22]
- What we know is secret (LP) 2020
- You're the Top (ski) (vinyl single) 2019
- Blank Meets Pettibon (The Berlin Concert) (LP, picture disc) 2016
- Wooden Heart (single, picture disc) 2015
- Burma Shave Electrics (LP, picture disc) 2013
- Long Live the People of the Revolution (LP) 2005
- Blank Meets Pettibon (CD) 2003
- Family Man
- In My Head
- Jealous Again
- Loose Nut
- My War
- Nervous Breakdown
- Six Pack
- Slip It In
- The Complete 1982 Demos (Plus More!)
- Have It All (single)
- One By One
- Off!
- "Disappearer" (single)
- Goo
Exhibition history
Group exhibitions
Pettibon began exhibiting his work in group shows in galleries in the 1980s. In 1992, Pettibon was invited to participate in Helter Skelter: L.A. Art in the 1990s, curated by Paul Schimmel at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA).
In 1993, Pettibon was included in the
In 2002, Pettibon participated in
In 2007, Dominic Molon of the
In 2008, Pettibon participated in the California Biennial, organized by Lauri Firstenberg, which featured one of his works as a large billboard on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. In 2010, Pettibon participated in the Liverpool Biennial curated by Lorenzo Fusi. In 2011, Rizzoli released a comprehensive monograph, edited by Ralph Rugoff, the most comprehensive publication of Pettibon's works to date.
Since 2018 his work No title (if you can) and has been part of the permanent collection of
Solo exhibitions
Barry Blinderman gave Pettibon his first solo exhibition at the Semaphore Gallery in New York in 1986.[5] In 1995, he had his first major solo exhibition at David Zwirner Gallery. By the mid-1990s he had his first solo museum exhibition at the Kunsthalle Bern in Switzerland, which traveled to Paris. In 1998, a self-titled show opened at the Renaissance Society in Chicago, and traveled to the Drawing Center in New York; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. In 2002, he had a solo exhibition, Raymond Pettibon Plots Laid Thick, organized by Museu D’art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), which traveled to Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo and GEM, Museum Voor Actuele Kunst, The Hague, The Netherlands.
In 2006, Pettibon had a major solo survey exhibition at the Centro de Arte Contemporaneo de Malaga, Spain that traveled to the
- 2013: "PUNK cabinet de curiosités MADE IN Raymond Pettibon", galerie mfc-michèle didier, Paris.
- 2016 "HOMO AMERICANUS" Sammlung Falckenberg [1], Hamburg
Publications
Monographs of Pettibon's work include: Raymond Pettibon, published by Centro de Arte Contemporaneo de Malaga for his solo exhibition in 2006 at the museum in Malaga, Spain and subsequently traveled to the kestnergesellschaft in Hannover, Germany. Whatever You're Looking For You Wont’ Find It here, published by the Kunsthalle Wien to accompany Pettibon's exhibition in 2006; Turn to the Title Page, an artist book that was specially created as a part of Pettibon's one-artist exhibition at the Whitney Museum in 2005; Raymond Pettibon: Plots Laid Thick published by MACBA in Barcelona, Spain in 2002; Raymond Pettibon, published by Phaidon Press, Inc. in 2001; Raymond Pettibon: A Pen of All Work, published by Phaidon Press, Inc. in 2017; Raymond Pettibon: The Books 1978–98, edited by Roberto Ohrt and published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter Konig and DAP, New York in 2000; and Raymond Pettibon: A Reader, published by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago in 1998. That same year the Renaissance Society also published, Thinking of You a limited edition artist book. Raymond Pettibon, published by Kunsthalle Bern, edited by Ulrich Loock in 1995.
Collections
Pettibon's work is included in the collection of many museums and institutions worldwide including: The Armand
Recognition
Raymond Pettibon is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes. In 1991, he was awarded the
Art market
The artist is represented by Regen Projects, Los Angeles and David Zwirner, New York. He regularly shows with Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin and Sadie Coles HQ, London. In 2011, on the occasion of Ben Stiller and David Zwirner’s Artists For Haiti charity auction at Christie's, Pettibon's No Title (But the sand), sold for $820,000.[24]
Bibliography
- Loock, Ulrich; Pettibon, Raymond (2016). Homo Americanus. David Zwirner Books. ISBN 978-1941701263.
- Pettibon, Raymond; Williams, LG (2021). SCKONTHIS!!. PCP Press. ISBN 979-8743817795.
- Pettibon, Raymond; Williams, LG (2021). Tuff Luyv: The Abridged Raymond Pettibon Twitter Compilation. PCP Press. ISBN 979-8747765139.
- Pettibon, Raymond (2014). To Wit. David Zwirner Books. ISBN 978-0989980944.
- Buchloh, Benjamin; Pettibon, Raymond (2013). Here's Your Irony Back: Political Works 1975-2013. Hatje Cantz/David Zwirner/Regen Projects. ISBN 978-3775737333.
- Storr, Robert; Pettibon, Raymond (2001). Raymond Pettibon (Phaidon Contemporary Artist Series). Phaidon Press. ISBN 0714839191.
- Rugoff, Ralph; Storr, Robert (2016). Raymond Pettibon (Rizzoli Classics). Rizzoli. ISBN 9780847858255.
- Ghez, Susanne; Temkin, Ann (1998). Raymond Pettibon: A Reader. Rizzoli. ISBN 9780847858255.
- Pettibon, Raymond (2015). Raymond Pettibon: Surfers 1985-2015. David Zwirner Books. ISBN 978-1941701157.
- Pettibon, Raymond; Williams, LG (2021). my fists r free: 186 Twitter Poems. PCP Press. ISBN 9798749386295.
- Gioni, Massimiliano; Carrion-Murayari, Gary (2017). A Pen of All Work. Phaidon Press. ISBN 978-0714873695.
References
- ^ "Raymond Pettibon profile". PBS. Retrieved 2015-04-23.
- ^ Vulture.com.
- ^ Cotter, Holland (February 9, 2017). "Raymond Pettibon, Wielding an Art Mightier Than the Sword". The New York Times. Retrieved February 9, 2017.
- ^ a b c d e Drohojowska, Hunter (June 16, 1991). "Drawn to Words : Pairing sketches with texts, Raymond Pettibon keeps his art between the lines—where his mother could find it". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ New York Times.
- ^ James Verini (April 15, 2006), His look doesn't matter: Everyone loves Raymond Los Angeles Times.
- ^ "Raymond Pettibon profile". Tate.org.uk. 2000-12-10. Retrieved 2015-04-23.
- ^ Dayal, Geeta (6 December 2013). "Black Flag: a re-formation gone wrong". The Guardian. Retrieved 2015-04-23.
- ^ Kimmelman, Michael (2005-10-09). "The Underbelly Artist". The New York Times Magazine. Retrieved 2008-02-10.
- New York Times.
- T: The New York Times Style Magazine.
- ^ Brisick, Jamie (March 7, 2013). "The Game of Words and Pics". Huck.
- ^ Clark, Alistair (2010-10-01). "Ray Pettibon profile". Crasier Frane. Archived from the original on 2011-07-08. Retrieved 2010-11-09.
- ^ Raymond Pettibon. Part II: Cutting-Room Floor Show, December 13, 2008 – January 24, 2009, RegenProjects.com; accessed September 29, 2016.
- ^ Raymond Pettibon: Looker-Upper, 29 April – 11 June, 2011 Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin.
- ^ Lehrer, Adam (March 7, 2017). "Raymond Pettibon's 'A Pen Of All Work' At The New Museum Combines Text And Image To Reveal Hypocrisy". Forbes. Retrieved June 20, 2019.
- ^ Trouillot, Terence (March 1, 2017). "Raymond Pettibon A Pen of All Work". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved June 20, 2019.
- New York Times.
- ^ Cover Artist: Raymond Pettibon Red Flag Magazine.
- ^ "The Art of Punk – Black Flag – Art + Music – MOCAtv". YouTube.com. 2013-06-11. Archived from the original on 2021-12-11. Retrieved 2015-04-23.
- ^ https://www.decks.de/track/raymond_pettibon_oliver_augst-nature_boy/clz-1i
- ^ "Raymond Pettibon, Oliver Augst: TO (7") (Vinyl) • Laterna Records".
- ^ "press release of Whitney Museum of American Art: Bucksbaum 2004 (PDF)" (PDF). May 3, 2004. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 7, 2012. Retrieved March 9, 2012.
- New York Observer.