NYAB Event - Richard Pettibone “Painting and Sculpture: 1964 - 2003”

Richard Pettibone “Painting and Sculpture: 1964 - 2003”

David Nolan Gallery

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For our summer show, David Nolan Gallery presents an exhibition of works by Richard Pettibone. This presentation brings together 5 sculptures and nearly 40 paintings from the 1960s and spanning the artist’s career.

A key proponent of the West Coast “Conceptual Pop” movement, Pettibone appropriated imagery from Warhol, Lichtenstein and Brancusi – among others. The rear gallery will be devoted to copies of the artist’s abiding inspiration, Marcel Duchamp.

Typically framed and constructed upon miniature stretcher bars, his small-scale “replicas” subvert the traditional notion of artists as creators of original works of art while maintaining a critical distance from the artworks that they reproduce. As the catalogue for Pettibone’s last major retrospective (2005-6) suggests: “his appropriations do more than merely commemorate their sources. Although comic and good-humored, they probe and tweak those sources.” The present exhibition offers a rare to opportunity to assess the work of this important American artist.

[Image: RICHARD PETTIBONE, [detail] Roy Lichtenstein. “Spray. 1962.” 1964, acrylic and rubber stamp on canvas, 8 3/8 x 6 1/4 in.]

Media

• Painting
• Sculpture

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