RAYMOND PETTIBON | Surfers 1985-2014: Are Your Motives Pure?

Let the swell of Raymond Pettibon's iconic big wave surfer paintings wash over you. 

This is a book for the connoisseur of counterculture, the passionate surfer, or those that seek the crest of the life's next wave.

Published to accompany the exhibition at Venus Over Manhattan gallery, New York. Scarce in excellent condition.

Pristine illustrated softcover with illustrated jacket. Jacket has very minimal shelf wear. Otherwise like-new. Fine condition.

"Since the 1970s Raymond Pettibon (born 1957) has created a vocabulary of symbols that reappear consistently if enigmatically across his oeuvre. These range from baseball players, vixens, light bulbs and railway trains to the cartoon character Gumby and infamous murderer Charles Manson. But the most poetic and revealing of Pettibon's symbols may be the surfer, the solitary longboarder challenging a massive wave. In his "surfer paintings," viewers ride along with a counterculture existentialist hero who perhaps is the artist's nearest proxy. Almost all of the works included in this volume depict an ocean roiling with chaotic swells, accompanied by nonsequiturs, quotations and bits of poetry in the artist's handwriting. Among these works are early small-scale, monochrome India ink paintings; numerous paintings from the 1990s when the artist introduced color to his work; and a group of rare, large-scale paintings." - from the publisher

Texts by Adam Lindemann and Carlo McCormick

softcover in wraps
8.5 x 11 inches