Everyone's favorite early 80's punk rock album cover illustrator turned big time artist Raymond Pettibon is showing at super cool LA gallery Regen Projects. The show -- Part II: Cutting-Room Floor Show -- is the second in a series by Pettibon at the gallery. It opened 12.13.08 and runs through 01.24.09.

While Part I featured Pettibon's early works, Part II will introduce recent explorations in both color and collage. Pettibon started working in collage in the mid 80's with simple newsprint elements collaged onto black and white images, and in works from 1992-93, the process became more complex. In this current exhibition the collages are extremely worked, layering images and text to produce intricate scenarios and non-linear narratives. Also on view are his powerful paintings on paper, depicting an anarchic combination of the past and present. The works suggest that although history repeats itself, rupture is still possible.

The subject matter in these new works on paper are a continuation of Pettibon's oeuvre: the landscape of war, politics, popular culture, and history. Eloquently playing with multiple ideas at once, Pettibon's works have various levels of interpretation. As a result, a fluidity of images and text occur and meanings easily shift and change. The works operate comfortably between an explicit and implied narrative, making direct and indirect associations that elude a stringent definition.

Read the full press release and check out images from the show.

Don't forget to check out Pettibon's Wiki, look at more work on Artnet, and read a bio on Pettibon and check out lots more work compiled by the folks at Art:21, the PBS series on contemporarty artists.