An installation view of the exhibition Raymond Pettibon: TH" EXPLOSIYV SHOYRT T, at David Zwirner New York, dated 2017.
An installation view of the exhibition Raymond Pettibon: TH" EXPLOSIYV SHOYRT T, at David Zwirner New York, dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon: TH EXPLOSIYV SHOYRT T

David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Raymond Pettibon, on view at 519 West 19th Street in New York. The artist's tenth solo show at gallery TH’ EXPLOSIYV SHOYRT T follows his collaborative presentations with Marcel Dzama at the gallery in both London and New York last year.

 

Pettibon's work embraces a wide spectrum of American high and low culture, from the deviations of marginal youth to art history, sports, religion, politics, sexuality, and literature. Taking their point of departure in the Southern California punk-rock scene of the late 1970s and 1980s and the do-it-yourself aesthetic of album covers, comics, concert flyers, and fanzines that characterized the movement, his drawings have come to occupy their own genre of potent and dynamic artistic commentary.

 

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For more information about available works contact inquiries@davidzwirner.com

A drawing by Raymond Pettibon, titled No Title (And the sound...), dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (And the sound...), 2017
Pencil and acrylic on paper
51 3/8 x 64 3/4 inches (130.5 x 164.5 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon titled No Title (Rereading Pettibon), dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (Rereading Pettibon), 2017
Ink on paper
40 x 26 inches (101.6 x 66 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon titled No Title (Cast east thought...), dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (Cast east thought...), 2017
Ink and acrylic on paper
77 1/2 x 60 inches (196.9 x 152.4 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon, titled No Title (Complex branchings are...), dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (Complex branchings are...), 2017
Ink and acrylic on paper
51 1/4 x 71 1/2 inches (130.2 x 181.6 cm)

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (Iraq Bob Hope...), 2017
Acrylic and collage on paper
22 1/2 x 29 7/8 inches (57.2 x 75.9 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon titled No Title (The invisible point...), dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (The indivisible point...), 2017
Ink on paper
44 x 30 1/2 inches (111.8 x 77.5 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon, titled No Title (Don't lose sight...), dated 2016.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (Don't lose sight...), 2016
Pencil, colored pencil, watercolor, and acrylic on paper
72 1/2 x 51 1/4 inches (184.2 x 130.2 cm)

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (Proud as a...), 2017
Ink and acrylic on paper
30 x 22 1/4 inches (76.2 x 56.5 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon, titled No Title, dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title, 2017
Pencil and acrylic on paper
26 x 40 inches (66 x 101.6 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon, titled No Title (In a wrestless...), dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (In a wrestless...), 2017
Pencil, ink, and acrylic on paper
40 x 55 inches (101.6 x 139.7 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon titled No Title (Having found his...), dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (Having found his...), 2017
Ink, acrylic, and collage on paper
56 x 42 inches (142.2 x 106.7 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon, titled No Title (Dear master v:...), dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (Dear Master V...), 2017
Pencil, ink, watercolor, gouache, acrylic, and collage on paper
44 x 35 inches (111.8 x 88.9 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon, titled No Title (Where once the...), dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (Where once the...), 2017
Watercolor, gouache, and acrylic on paper
44 x 30 1/2 inches (111.8 x 77.5 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon, titled No Title (Which was worn...), dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (Which was worn...), 2017
Ink, watercolor, and collage on paper
42 x 50 inches (106.7 x 127 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon, titled No Title (Pressed Beaver), dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (Pressed Beaver), 2017
Ink, watercolor, gouache, acrylic, and collage on paper
22 3/8 x 29 7/8 inches (56.8 x 75.9 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon, titled No Title (In society I...), dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (In society I...), 2017
Pencil, ink, and acrylic on paper
44 x 30 1/2 inches (111.8 x 77.5 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon, titled No Title (I love honest...), dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (I love honest...), 2017
Collage and ink on paper
30 1/2 x 49 1/2 inches (77.5 x 125.7 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon titled No Title (And the apple), dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (And the apple...), 2017
Watercolor, gouache, and acrylic on paper
30 x 22 1/2 inches (76.2 x 57.2 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon, titled No Title (Noyt that he's...), dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (Noyt that he's...), 2017
Pencil, ink, watercolor, gouache, and acrylic on paper
30 1/2 x 44 inches (77.5 x 111.8 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon, titled No Title (And then other...), dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (And then other...), 2017
Pencil, ink, watercolor, gouache, and acrylic on paper
30 1/2 x 44 inches (77.5 x 111.8 cm)
A photograph of Raymond Pettibon by Jason Schmidt, undated.

Image: Raymond Pettibon photographed in his New York studio by Jason Schmidt for Cultured magazine

In over 600 works presented in Raymond Pettibon: Homo Americanus, the artist plumbs the depths of American sexuality, politics, subcultures, mores, and intellectual histories with references ranging from Shakespeare to Gumby, surfers to the Bible, and baseball to German Romanticism.


Published by David Zwirner Books | Deichtorhallen Hamburg – Sammlung Falckenberg on the occasion of Pettibon's major European traveling retrospective in 2016.

An installation view of the exhibition Raymond Pettibon: TH" EXPLOSIYV SHOYRT T, at David Zwirner New York, dated 2017.
An installation view of the exhibition Raymond Pettibon: TH" EXPLOSIYV SHOYRT T, at David Zwirner New York, dated 2017.
An installation view of the exhibition Raymond Pettibon: TH" EXPLOSIYV SHOYRT T, at David Zwirner New York, dated 2017.
An installation view of the exhibition Raymond Pettibon: TH" EXPLOSIYV SHOYRT T, at David Zwirner New York, dated 2017.
An installation view of the exhibition Raymond Pettibon: TH" EXPLOSIYV SHOYRT T, at David Zwirner New York, dated 2017.
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon, titled No Title (It sounds powerful...), dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (It sounds powerful...), 2017
Ink, acrylic, and collage on paper
60 1/2 x 101 inches (153.7 x 256.5 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon, titled No Title (Who Can? Does...), dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (Who can? Does...), 2017
Pencil, ink, and acrylic on paper
45 x 91 1/4 inches (114.3 x 231.8 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon titled No Title (Looyking for one...), dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (Looyking for one...), 2017
Watercolor and acrylic on paper
41 1/4 x 51 3/4 inches (104.8 x 131.4 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon, titled No Title (Don't lose sight...), dated 2016.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (Don't lose sight...), 2016
Pencil, colored pencil, watercolor, and acrylic on paper
72 1/2 x 51 1/4 inches (184.2 x 130.2 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon, titled No Title (And the sound...), dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (And the sound...), 2017
Pencil and acrylic on paper
51 3/8 x 64 3/4 inches (130.5 x 164.5 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon, titled No Title (Was there any...), dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (Whas there any...), 2017
Ink and acrylic on paper
52 x 67 1/4 inches (132.1 x 170.8 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon titled No Title (Cast east thought...), dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (Cast east thought...), 2017
Ink and acrylic on paper
77 1/2 x 60 inches (196.9 x 152.4 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon, titled No Title (The game runs...), dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (The game runs...), 2017
Pencil, ink, watercolor, gouache, and acrylic on paper
52 1/2 x 50 1/2 inches (133.3 x 128.3 cm)

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (Four hundred years...), 2017
Watercolor, gouache, and acrylic on paper
93 3/4 x 51 7/8 inches (238.1 x 131.8 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon, titled No Title (I love honest...), dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (I love honest...), 2017
Collage and ink on paper
30 1/2 x 49 1/2 inches (77.5 x 125.7 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon, titled No Title (Complex branchings are...), dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (Complex branchings are...), 2017
Ink and acrylic on paper
51 1/4 x 71 1/2 inches (130.2 x 181.6 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon, titled No Title (Whipper paused a...), dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (Whipper paused a...), 2017
Ink, watercolor, and acrylic on paper
44 x 30 1/2 inches (111.8 x 77.5 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon, titled No Title (All the gold...), dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (All the gold...), 2017
Pencil, ink, and acrylic on paper
54 3/8 x 46 inches (138.1 x 116.8 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon, titled No Title (And agaiyn, keeping...), dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (And agaiyn, keeping...), 2017
Acrylic on paper
42 x 56 inches (106.7 x 142.2 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon, titled No Title (As sooyn as...), dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (As sooyn as...), 2017
Pencil, ink, acrylic, and collage on paper
60 1/4 x 44 1/2 inches (153 x 113 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon, titled No Title (I'm stiyll in...), dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title ( I'm stiyll in...), 2017
Ink and acrylic on paper
66 3/4 x 44 inches (169.5 x 111.8 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon, titled No Title (Procreation extended to...), dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (Procreation extended to...), 2017
Pencil, colored pencil, ink, watercolor, gouache, acrylic, and collage on paper
47 x 63 inches (119.4 x 160 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon, titled No Title (And then other...), dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (And then other...), 2017
Pencil, ink, watercolor, gouache, and acrylic on paper
30 1/2 x 44 inches (77.5 x 111.8 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon, titled No Title (Which was worn...), dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (Which was worn...), 2017
Ink, watercolor, and collage on paper
42 x 50 inches (106.7 x 127 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon, titled No Title (In a wrestless...), dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (In a wrestless...), 2017
Pencil, ink, and acrylic on paper
40 x 55 inches (101.6 x 139.7 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon titled No Title (Having found his...), dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (Having found his...), 2017
Ink, acrylic, and collage on paper
56 x 42 inches (142.2 x 106.7 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon, titled No Title (Dear master v:...), dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (Dear Master V...), 2017
Pencil, ink, watercolor, gouache, acrylic, and collage on paper
44 x 35 inches (111.8 x 88.9 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon, titled No Title (When the winter...), dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (When the winter...), 2017
Ink, acrylic, PVA adhesive, and collage on paper
51 x 69 3/4 x 1 1/2 inches (129.5 x 177.2 x 3.8 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon, titled No Title (Here was one...), dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (Here was one...), 2017
Ink, watercolor, and acrylic on paper
38 x 50 inches (96.5 x 127 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon, titled No Title (All forc'd into...), dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (All forc'd into...), 2017
Ink, acrylic, watercolor, and collage on paper
44 x 30 1/4 inches (111.8 x 76.8 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon, titled No Title (This does not...), dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (This does not...), 2017
Ink, acrylic, and watercolor on paper
30 1/8 x 44 inches (76.5 x 111.8 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon, titled No Title (Like the wright...), dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title, 2017
Pencil, gouache, acrylic, and collage on paper
30 1/2 x 44 x 1/2 inches (77.5 x 111.8 x 1.3 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon, titled No Title (Yeah! The chords...), dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (Yeah! The chords...), 2017
Ink, acrylic, and collage on fiber-based paper
28 3/4 x 42 1/4 inches (73 x 107.3 cm)

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (The self-critical, as...), 2017
Watercolor, ink, acrylic, and collage on fiber-based paper
27 3/4 x 36 7/8 inches (70.5 x 93.7 cm)

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (Those crosshatches you...), 2017
Ink and acrylic on paper
44 x 30 1/2 inches (111.8 x 77.5 cm)

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (Part of a...), 2017
Pencil, ink, watercolor, gouache, acrylic, and collage on paper
50 1/2 x 29 inches (128.3 x 73.7 cm)

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (Also (alas!), I...) , 2017
Ink, gouache, and collage on paper
48 x 31 inches (121.9 x 78.7 cm)

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (Zapruder wasn't yr...), 2016
Acrylic, ink, and colored pencil on paper
29 7/8 x 22 inches (75.9 x 55.9 cm)

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (Nothing left unsaid...), 2017
Ink, watercolor, gouache, acrylic, and collage on paper
42 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches (108 x 57.2 cm)

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (Little cloud that...), 2017
Ink on paper
44 x 30 1/2 inches (111.8 x 77.5 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon, titled No Title (In society I...), dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (In society I...), 2017
Pencil, ink, and acrylic on paper
44 x 30 1/2 inches (111.8 x 77.5 cm)

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (Self-restraint, or...), 2017
Ink, acrylic, and collage on paper
30 3/8 x 43 7/8 inches (77.2 x 111.4 cm)

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (They cherish and...), 2017
Ink and acrylic on paper
44 x 30 1/2 inches (111.8 x 77.5 cm)

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (Idea of suicide;...), 2017
Ink, acrylic, and collage on paper
44 x 30 1/2 inches (111.8 x 77.5 cm)

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (There is no...), 2017
Acrylic on paper
30 1/2 x 44 inches (77.5 x 111.8 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon, titled No Title (Noyt that he's...), dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (Noyt that he's...), 2017
Pencil, ink, watercolor, gouache, and acrylic on paper
30 1/2 x 44 inches (77.5 x 111.8 cm)

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (Was passing 'long...), 2017
Pencil, ink, watercolor, and acrylic on paper
30 1/2 x 44 inches (77.5 x 111.8 cm)

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (For a paraphrase...), 2017
Pencil, ink, watercolor, gouache, and acrylic on paper
30 1/2 x 44 inches (77.5 x 111.8 cm)

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (You don't know...), 2017
Ink, watercolor, and acrylic on paper
41 3/4 x 29 3/8 inches (106 x 74.6 cm)

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (Every great poeyt...), 2017
Pencil, ink, watercolor, and acrylic on paper
22 3/8 x 30 inches (56.8 x 76.2 cm)

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (From Rembranyd), 2017
Ink, watercolor, gouache, and acrylic on paper
44 x 30 1/2 inches (111.8 x 77.5 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon, titled No Title (Where once the...), dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (Where once the...), 2017
Watercolor, gouache, and acrylic on paper
44 x 30 1/2 inches (111.8 x 77.5 cm)

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (If we ignore...), 2017
Pencil, ink, watercolor, gouache, acrylic, and collage on paper
36 1/2 x 25 1/4 inches (92.7 x 64.1 cm)

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (Form is nothing...), 2017
Colored pencil, ink, watercolor, gouache, and acrylic on paper
43 7/8 x 30 1/2 inches (111.4 x 77.5 cm)

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (History is grown...), 2017
Pencil, ink, watercolor, gouache, and acrylic on paper
30 3/8 x 44 inches (77.2 x 111.8 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon titled No Title (The invisible point...), dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (The indivisible point...), 2017
Ink on paper
44 x 30 1/2 inches (111.8 x 77.5 cm)

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (His great melancholy...), 2017
Pencil, ink, watercolor, gouache, acrylic, and collage on paper
44 x 30 1/4 inches (111.8 x 76.8 cm)

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (The temparature today...), 2017
Ink, watercolor, gouache, and acrylic on paper
44 x 30 1/2 inches (111.8 x 77.5 cm)

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (The archbuilders hid...), 2017
Watercolor, gouache, and acrylic on paper
44 x 30 1/2 inches (111.8 x 77.5 cm)

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (You really have...), 2017
Ink on paper
44 x 30 1/2 inches (111.8 x 77.5 cm)

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (Can there be...), 2017
Ink and acrylic on paper
44 x 30 1/4 inches (111.8 x 76.8 cm)

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (She paus'd t'vault...), 2017
Ink and acrylic on paper
30 1/2 x 44 inches (77.5 x 111.8 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon, titled No Title, dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title, 2017
Pencil and acrylic on paper
26 x 40 inches (66 x 101.6 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon titled No Title (Rereading Pettibon), dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (Rereading Pettibon), 2017
Ink on paper
40 x 26 inches (101.6 x 66 cm)

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (4 bro's beating...), 2017
Pencil, ink, watercolor, gouache, and acrylic on paper
39 7/8 x 26 inches (101.3 x 66 cm)

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (I, too, still...), 2017
Ink, watercolor, and acrylic on paper
30 x 22 1/2 inches (76.2 x 57.2 cm)

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (Worth their bull's...), 2017
Watercolor, gouache, and acrylic on paper
40 x 26 inches (101.6 x 66 cm)

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (Asses' Bridge), 2017
Ink and acrylic on paper
40 x 26 inches (101.6 x 66 cm)

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (Proud as a...), 2017
Ink and acrylic on paper
30 x 22 1/4 inches (76.2 x 56.5 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon, titled No Title, dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title, 2017
Ink on paper
30 x 22 3/8 inches (76.2 x 56.8 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon, titled No Title (Now, g'bye babies...), dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (Now, g'bye babies...), 2017
Ink, watercolor, and acrylic on rice paper
36 1/8 x 25 1/4 inches (91.8 x 64.1 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon, titled No Title (And in th'best...), dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (And in th'best...), 2017
Acrylic on paper
22 1/2 x 30 inches (57.2 x 76.2 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon, titled No Title (Half-deayd n sapless...), dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (Half-deayd n sapless...), 2017
Ink and acrylic on paper
22 1/4 x 30 inches (56.5 x 76.2 cm)

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (Iraq Bob Hope...), 2017
Acrylic and collage on paper
22 1/2 x 29 7/8 inches (57.2 x 75.9 cm)
A drawing by Raymond Pettibon, titled No Title (I never cease...), dated 2017.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (I never cease...), 2017
Ink and acrylic on paper
25 x 30 1/4 inches (63.5 x 76.8 cm)

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