RAYMOND PETTIBON S SURFERS

Pettibon is known for his characteristically youthful aestheticandsharply satirical critique of American culture. Though drenched incynicism, his work empathizes with the dizzying madness of our ownhumanity as it engages both so-called high and low culture.Perhaps mostpoetic of the many motifs present in Pettibons oeuvre isthe surfer. In1985 Pettibon began Surfersa series he continues to workon to thisdaypopular for its depiction of the lone surfer silentlycarving aline of beauty, along an impossibly large wave.