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RAYMOND PETTIBON

Raymond Pettibon was born in Tucson, Arizona, in 1957. He is an American Artist who lives and 

works in New York City. Pettibon earned a degree in economics at the University of California, Los Angeles. After getting graduated from college, Pettibon worked as a high school math teacher, but soon he set out to launch a career as a professional artist.

Pettibon went to prominence in the early 1980s in the southern California punk rock scene, creating posters and album are mainly for groups on SST Records, owned and operated by his brother Greg Ginn. Pettibon acquired an international reputation as one of the foremost contemporary American artists by working with drawing, text, and artist’s book’s.

Pettibon works primarily with India ink on paper and many of his drawing are black and white. It is says that he sometimes introduce or use colors through the use of pencil, watercolor, collage, gouache and acrylic paint. His art works focus on the American culture that shows the deviances of marginal youth-culture to art, literature, sports, religion, politics and sexuality. His art include suffers, baseball players, homicidal teenage punks, Elvis Presley, and a cartoon figure called Gumby. Gumby is an American clay animation franchise, centered on a green clay humanoid and modeled by art Clokey the creator of this series.

In the 1990s, Pettibon extended his artwork beyond the print page and onto walls of the exhibition space, creating wall-size drawing and collages. His artworks have been shown at Philadelphia Museum of art, Santa Monica Museum of art, and the Museum of contemporary art, Los Angele.

Raymond Pettibon has received numerous awards and prizes were in 1991 he was awarded the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation award for which a catalog produced. In 2004 Pettibon create an installation of drawing for an exhibition at Whitney Biennial. Most of Pettibon Collection are in many institutions worldwide located in Chicago, Los Angeles, Canada, Switzerland and other places.

Here are some Pettibon Art Works