Marcel Dzama and Raymond Pettibon, “Forgetting the Hand”

Two bad boy artists are better than one, or so you can surmise from this collaborative show by two of attitudinal art’s finest draftsmen. Marcel Dzama and Raymond Pettibon team up in an contemporary update of the “exquisite corpse” game which originated with the Surrealists of the 1920s. The idea was simple: A piece of paper folded repeatedly into strips was passed around a group of artists who each drew part of a figure without seeing what the rest had drawn. Dzama and Pettibon do something similar as each starts a drawing to be finished by the other. Considering who’s involved here, the results are predictably weird.