"Hard in the Paint"
David Zwirner, New York
Through December 21, 2010
"If the pen was actually mightier than the sword, I would have a field day," Raymond Pettibon once told an interviewer. "It would be a fucking bloodbath." As it is, Pettibon is far from a layabout. For more than three decades he has been churning out virtuosic, text–laced drawings of hardcore punks, fearless surfers, hopeless hippies, stolid baseball players, conniving politicians, and smoking locomotives: definitive icons of American ingenuity, culture, and corruption. - Andrew Russeth, ArtInfo
