Raymond Pettibon’s work embraces a wide spectrum of American high and low culture, from art history, religion, politics, and literature to sexuality, the deviations of marginal youth, and sports. Taking their point of departure from the Southern California punk-rock scene of the late 1970s and 1980s, and the do-it-yourself aesthetic of album covers, comics, concert flyers, and fanzines that characterized the movement, his drawings have come to occupy their own genre of powerful and dynamic artistic commentary. He was born in 1957 in Tucson, Arizona, and lives and works in New York. Jamie Brisick’s books include Have Board, Will Travel: The Definitive History of Surf, Skate, and Snow (2021), Becoming Westerly: Surf Champion Peter Drouyn’s Transformation into Westerly Windina (2015), The Eighties at Echo Beach (2011), and We Approach Our Martinis With Such High Expectations (2002). His writings and photographs have appeared in The Surfer’s Journal, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Guardian. In 2008 he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship. He lives in Los Angeles.

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Raymond Pettibon’s work embraces a wide spectrum of American high and low culture, from art history, religion, politics, and literature to sexuality, the deviations of marginal youth, and sports. Taking their point of departure from the Southern California punk-rock scene of the late 1970s and 1980s, and the do-it-yourself aesthetic of album covers, comics, concert flyers, and fanzines that characterized the movement, his drawings have come to occupy their own genre of powerful and dynamic artistic commentary. He was born in 1957 in Tucson, Arizona, and lives and works in New York. Jamie Brisick’s books include Have Board, Will Travel: The Definitive History of Surf, Skate, and Snow (2021), Becoming Westerly: Surf Champion Peter Drouyn’s Transformation into Westerly Windina (2015), The Eighties at Echo Beach (2011), and We Approach Our Martinis With Such High Expectations (2002). His writings and photographs have appeared in The Surfer’s Journal, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Guardian. In 2008 he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship. He lives in Los Angeles.

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