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A
Conversation with Raymond Pettibon at the Pomona College
Museum of Art
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The Pomona College Museum of Art is pleased to announce that
Raymond Pettibon will appear in conversation with Pomona
College Professor Arden Reed on Wednesday, April 5 at 4:15
p.m. in the Museum. This program is presented in conjunction
with the exhibition “Ed Ruscha/Raymond Pettibon: The Holy
Bible and THE END,” on view through April 9, 2006.
Born in Tucson, Arizona, in 1957, Raymond Pettibon is best
known for pen and ink drawings that blur the distinction
between “high” and “low” art. Because he never attended art
school, instead earning a degree in economics, Pettibon
remained a relative outsider in the Los Angeles art scene
until the 1990s. After a brief stint as a high-school math
teacher, Petttibon became involved with the 1980s Los
Angeles punk scene, designing flyers and album covers for
bands such as Sonic Youth and the Minutemen. Greg Ginn,
Pettibon's older brother and a founding member of the
seminal punk band Black Flag, released several of Pettibon's
artist books through his influential SST Records. These
books and album covers established his influential position
as a figurative artist dealing with raw and often deviant
combinations of popular culture such as comic books, film
and TV, and sports; sub-cultures such as the punk rock music
scene and the surfing community; and literary sources that
include the Bible, Henry James and Marcel Proust.
Interest grew in his unusual pairing of cartoon-like images,
pop culture iconography, and literary quotations and, in the
early 1990s, Pettibon moved from cult figure to established
artist. In 1991 he received the Louis Comfort Tiffany
Foundation award, and one year later he was included in the
“Helter Skelter: L.A. Art in the 1990s” exhibition at the
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Retrospectives of
his work have been held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art;
the Santa Monica Museum of Art; the Museum of Contemporary
Art, Los Angeles; the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona;
Galleria d'Arte Moderni di Bologna; and the Muesion-Museo
d'Arte Moderno e Contemporanea in Bolzano, Italy. Pettibon
has also been featured in Documenta XI in Kassell, Germany
and in the Whitney Biennial in New York City; in 2004 he won
the Whitney Museum of American Art's 2004 Bucksbaum award.
Pomona College Professor of English Arden Reed will
facilitate the conversation with Pettibon. Reed was recently
awarded a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship and will be the William
S. Vaughn Fellow at Vanderbilt's Robert Penn Warren Center
for the Humanities in 2006-07. He is currently working on a
book tentatively titled Slow Art: From Tableaux Vivant to
James Turrell. His most recent book was Manet, Flaubert, and
the Emergence of Modernism (Cambridge University Press,
2004). He also writes regularly for Art in America.
The exhibition, “Ed Ruscha/Raymond Pettibon: The Holy Bible
and THE END,” brings together two artists who deal with
combinations of images and words and represents their
collaborative work on the print series The Holy Bible and
THE END, the second and third time that they have
collaborated on works of art. Ruscha and Pettibon worked
with master printer Ed Hamilton at the Hamilton Press to
produce the exhibited work, in a collaboration that engaged
all three. The result provides a rare opportunity to see
their collaborative process.
The exhibition includes several states and proofs of the two
collaborations, as well as new drawings related to the
themes of the prints and the exhibition by both. The
exhibition is accompanied by a full-color catalogue with an
essay by scholar and critic Dave Hickey. Supporting texts
include an essay by Ed Hamilton and Pettibon’s texts related
to these themes.
The Pomona College Museum of Art, formerly the Montgomery
Art Gallery, is located at 330 N. College Avenue, Claremont.
The museum is open to the public and free of charge, Tuesday
through Friday, from noon to 5 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday
from 1 to 5 p.m. For more information, call (909) 621-8283
or visit www.pomona.edu/museum http://www.pomona.edu/museum.
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