Raymond Pettibon
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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.
Raymond Pettibon | |
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Born | Raymond Ginn (1957-06-16) June 16, 1957 (age 66) Tucson, Arizona, U.S.[1] |
Nationality | American |
Education | UCLA |
Known for | Drawing, Video art, Installation art |
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]