Raymond Pettibon's name may forever be linked to SST Records, especially the Minutemen and his brother Greg's band, Black Flag. Pettibon got his start drawing up flyers and album covers for 1980s South Bay punk bands. The collection currently showing at Regen Projects is drawn from this era, when Pettibon's work was particularly raw and intense.
Raymond Pettibon Exhibit at Regen Projects
LAist Interview: Artist Lesley Reppeteaux
After several years as a resident of Los Angeles, artist Lesley Reppeteaux lived as an ex-pat in Paris, Barcelona and Berlin before making a more permanent move to Portland, Oregon. Known for eclectic, poignant painting and illustration that often includes portraits of quirky lasses, Reppeteaux’s art mixes the sublime with a shadowy expressionism. Art Ltd. magazine recently listed Reppeteaux as one of several notable artists in “Pop Surrealism” to emerge from the West Coast. The Halifax, Nova Scotia native is also a comic book author/artist under the name Black Olive (through Slave Labor Graphics). In her comic Outlook:Grim, Reppeteaux brought to life a kick-ass heroine who fought the supernatural. In Screwtooth, a frail, wheelchair-bound girl found hope from within her trapped chambers.

