Studio: Raymond Pettibon

Text description reading Raymond Pettibon has returned again and again to the subject of surfers swallowed by colossal waves, a motif he exploits for all its sublimity and allegorical resonance. Regarded by ancient Polynesians as a spiritual ritual, since the 1960s surfing has taken on valences of stoner counterculture, allowing Pettibon to plumb its depths and shallows. Pettibon’s eternal return to his wave works across media is a practice that helps him to reach a “flow state” in the studio, without leaving it.
A detail of a painting by Raymond Pettibon titled No Title (Big gun pen.), dated 2020.
Text Description reading No Title (Big gun pen.), 2020
A painting by Raymond Pettibon titled No Title (Big gun pen.), dated 2020.

Raymond Pettibon

No Title (Big gun pen. ...), 2020
Acrylic and gouache on paper
52 x 100 3/4 inches (132.1 x 255.9 cm)
Text description reading When did you start drawing waves? “When I was a kid, like on my Peechee folder, or in class, doodling or whatever. I still have some that I did when I was like, five, six years old.”—Raymond Pettibon
An installation view featuring works by Raymond Pettibon, dated 2019
Installation view, Raymond Pettibon: Frenchette, David Zwirner, Paris, 2019
Installation view, Raymond Pettibon: Frenchette, David Zwirner, Paris, 2019

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