Raymond Pettibon is an L.A. artist based in New York.
Pettibon recently had a show at The Journal Gallery in Downtown Manhattan. His solo show was curated by Sozita Goudouna and featured the cartoon character, Gumby.
Pettibon’s show was curated by Sozita Goudouna. The solo show featured a signature cartoon character of Pettibon’s, Gumby.
Raymond Pettibon’s (b. 1957) influential oeuvre engages a wide spectrum of American iconography variously pulled from literature, art history, philosophy, religion, politics, sports, and alternative youth culture, among other sources. Intermixing image and text, his drawings engage the visual rhetorics of pop and commercial culture while incorporating language from mass media as well as classic texts by writers such as William Blake, Marcel Proust, John Ruskin, and Walt Whitman.
Your name
Raymond Pettibon
Your current location
New York City, Seaport
Your favorite pastime
The Andy Griffith show and River Monsters
Something you like
Taking a walk on the East River and/or Brooklyn Bridge
Something you dislike
I try not to dislike anything
Your defining characteristic
I don’t know
What would someone close to you say your defining characteristic is
Ask them
Your favorite artist
There are too many, let's not start there
Favorite word or phrase
My huckleberry friend
What aspect of your work is most important to you
The struggle, the process of getting there
Who do you admire the most and why
Well, it is not the Dalai Lama
Your worst habits
Perhaps you have to ask other people
The first thing you think of in the morning
I don’t know
What have you always wanted to do and have not done
It is not about accomplishments and getting things done
Your best decision
I don’t know
Your worst decision
Getting to the window past post time
Your favorite street and why
Raymond Avenue
What made you become the person you are
I don’t know
Something that you treasure
I don’t know
What would the child you once were think of the adult you have become
I don’t know, I didn’t live life approaching goals and attaining them
Your greatest fear
Heights, sickness and death
Pictures and Text courtesy of The Journal Gallery
“All I am really asking is for you to look at Gumby with the same kind of respect that you would if it was some historical figure or Greek statue” - Pettibon