Richard Pettibone Retrospective @ LAM

14 Mar Richard Pettibone Retrospective @ LAM

I spaced and forgot to let you all know that the Richard Pettibone retrospective opened at the Laguna Art Museum this weekend. The show will run to May 28th and it’s not to be missed.

Richard Pettibone: A Retrospective will present the full range of the artist’s career from the early assemblages and small-scale “replicas” that first brought him to critical attention in Los Angeles in the late fifties and sixties to his various sculptural installations (based on his love of both Shaker furniture and Constantine Brancusi) to the recent more complexly layered work (“making anew” such modern masters as Mondrian and Ezra Pound) that engage him today. Pettibone’s early work was astonishingly prescient of 1980s appropriation art—a radical move in which pop art’s seizure of common objects and media reproductions slid into the even more seditious act of replicating other artist’s art.