For over thirty years, Pettibon has been chronicling the history, mythology and culture of America with a prodigious and distinctive voice. Through his drawings’ signature interplay between image and text, he moves between historical reflection, emotional longing, poetic wit, and strident critique. Since the late 1960s, he has produced thousands of drawings and energetic installations that have been executed in museums and galleries around the world. These works poignantly evoke the country’s shifting values across time, from the idealistic postwar period in which he was born to the collapse of the American counterculture in the ’70s and ’80s to the painful military and social conflicts of the present. Although Pettibon is unquestionably a pivotal figure of American art since the 1990s, he has never before had a major museum survey exhibition in New York.
The exhibition will travel to the Bonnefantenmuseum in Maastricht, the Netherlands where it will be on view from June 1–October 30, 2017.
until 9 April 2017
Raymond Pettibon: A Pen of All Work
New Museum of Contemporary Art
235 Bowery, New York
Curators: Gary Carrion-Murayari, Massimiliano Gioni, Edlis Neeson