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His repertory of atomic
explosions, hippies, vixens, cowboys, dismembered bodies, old cars and liquor
bottles describes a morning-after portrait of America in extremis. The affect
is world-weary but slyly comic. The pervasive nastiness and unfettered id
belong to the worlds of Joan Crawford and low-budget horror films: to camp as
much as to punk. Surfers, Gumby and Vavoom, the wide-mouthed character from the
old animated series "Felix the Cat," are Pettibon's occasional
surrogate self-portraits. Old Vargas pinups and beefcake nudes traced from
magazine advertisements or superhero comics give to some of the pictures an
ambiguous, once-upon-a-time, bleak eroticism.- NY Times
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