Richard Pettibone

Now in his eighties, Pop-Art miniaturist Richard Pettibone was an early-adapter of Duchampian aesthetics who went Warhol on Warhol himself, replicating Andy’s work and that of other artists (Stella, Lichtenstein and Duchamp himself) in exquisitely small canvases that were often repeated serially. Pettibone—along with coeval copyist Elaine Sturtevant—would later be hailed during the 1980s as harbingers of Appropriation Art. He continues in a similar, if more personal vein for this show, memorializing his 2016 heart attack by replicating Marcel Duchamp’s 1936 cover for the magazine, Cahiers D’Art, a design that featured three concentric hearts in red and blue.