RAYMOND PETTIBON | Untitled (A Very Columbus...)

David Zwirner Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by David Teiger in November 2001

New York, David Zwirner Gallery, I Love NY, October - November 2001

Exh. Cat., New York, Venus over Manhattan, Raymond Pettibon: Surfers 1985-2015, 2014, pp. 60-61, illustrated in color 

This work is in excellent condition overall. The sheet is hinged verso to the mat intermittently along the top, left and right edges. All four edges of the sheet are heavily deckled, and the associated wear and scattered tearing are inherent. All four corners shows signs of creasing, most noticeably the bottom right corner, again inherent to the artist's working process. There is a soft undulation along the bottom edge of the sheet. Framed under Plexiglas.
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"Raymond Pettibon's surfer images imagine an ecstatic peace, of being swept away from oneself in some flight with only the wing and a prayer of survival as one's pilot. He draws this idealized space for what it is, not a tangible reality but a dream, taking us to that magical place where you might just find yourself when the horizon line is lost and disorientation is your only compass. What makes these works truly about the surf is more than mere subject matter; it is their rhythm, the insistent up and down, the in and out, the disillusion of what it means to be inside or outside. And there in the spume, or hovering above it all where the sea in veils and shrouds approximate the clouds, are the words like desperate messages slipped out of their bottles..."  Carlo McCormick, “Waveform: Riding the Sublime to the Song of the Sea,” in Exh. Cat., New York, Venus over Manhattan, Raymond Pettibon: Surfers 1985-2015, 2015, p. 14