Raymond Pettibon Biography
Pettibon Raymond (Tucson, 1957) Raymond Pettibon is a painter and comic book artist. During the punk music era of the 1970s and 1980s, Pettibon produced his artwork on flyers, promotional posters, stickers, and album covers. His most famous work from this period was for his brother's band, Black Flag. He also worked for other bands, such as “The Dead Kennedys”, “the Ramones”, “Meat Puppets”. The works of those years are mainly done with Indian ink on black and white paper, although he added color, using watercolors or colored pencils. He began exhibiting his work in the 1980s. In 1991 he won the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award in Painting, Sculpture, Print-making, Photography and Craft Media. He exhibited in many important museums, such as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and held numerous solo exhibitions at the Galleria Massimo De Carlo in Milan, at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, at the Contemporary Fine Arts in Berlin.
