His work reveals hidden truths about the hippies, the punks, the artists, and the freaks, identifying us all as playing a part in one massive tangled web of barely concealed truths. You won't read a sense of optimism in Pettibon's work, like you would in his late friend and contemporary, the artist Mike Kelley. Pettibon finds conformity in right wing politics as much as he finds it in radical art movements. Pettibon's massive body of work reveals the hypocrisy that exists at every facet of culture. All of these ideals; Marxism, Capitalism, Democracy, Punk Rock, revolution, Art History, pop culture; they are all part of a larger cultural discussion.

Source: Forbes March 07, 2017 23:03 UTC