Introduction
Raymond Pettibon (born Raymond Ginn; June 16, 1957 in Tucson, Arizona) is an American artist who lives and works in New York City. 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 brother, Greg Ginn. Pettibon’s immensely influential oeuvre engages a wide spectrum of American iconography variously pulled from literature, art history, philosophy, and religion to politics, sport, and sexuality. For more than four decades, his idiosyncratic drawings have helped reinforce the importance of the medium within contemporary art, underscoring its dual potential for private, expressive gestures and mass-cultural, stylized communication. 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."
Wikidata
Q564945
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Nationality
American
Gender
Male
Roles
Artist, Cartoonist, Illustrator, Painter, Photographer, Video Artist
Names
Raymond Pettibon, Raymond Ginn, Lance Pettibon
Ulan
500115615
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