Raymond Pettibon

Contemporary art fans and artists of all ages will be delighted with this lively series of coloring books by many wonderful artists. There are now four editions of the coloring book, each with its own collection of more than 100 pages of black and white drawings contributed by a diverse roster of today's celebrated contemporary artists. Most importantly, these coloring books are produced by RxArt, a non-profit that puts contemporary art in children's hospitals, and which donates these coloring books to children throughout the world.

Volume 6 artists include:  Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Christian Marclay, Roxy Paine, Seth Price, Matthew Richie, Jessica Stockholder, Erwin Wurm, Katherine Bernhardt, The Hass Brothers, and Melanie Schiff

Volume 5 artists include: John Baldessari, Ugo Rondinone, Keith Haring, Peter Halley, John Chamberlain, Will Cotton, Tom Otterness, Matthew Ritchie, Julie Mehretu, Olaf Breuning, William Wegman and many more.

Volume 4 artists include: Carroll Dunham, Louise Bourgeois, Ai WeiWei, Michael Craig-Martin, Christian Marclay, Marilyn Minter, Rebecca Morris, Richard Prince, Laurie Simmons, Rudolf Stingel, and many more.

Volume 3 artists include: Mel Bochner, Cecily Brown, Nick Cave, Robert Lazzarrini, Wangechi Mutu, Kiki Smith, Sarah Sze, Katrín Sigurdardóttir, Andrea Zittel, David Hammons, Dzine, Zaha Hadid, and many more.

Volume 2 artists include: Olaf Breuning, Dan Colen, Tacita Dean, Marcel Dzama, Inka Essenhigh, Robert Gober, Karen Kilimnik, Adam McEwen, Sarah Morris, Takashi Murakami, Jorge Pardo, Raymond Pettibon, Ed Ruscha, Mickalene Thomas, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Lawrence Weiner, and Kehinde Wiley, and many more.

These unisex, limited edition sunglasses by Raymond Pettibond is available in black/white and tortoiseshell. Pettibon’s work is universally known for his blending of high and low culture, taking points of departure from the Southern California punk-rock culture of the late 1970s and 1980s and the “do-it-yourself” aesthetic of album covers, comics, concert flyers, and fanzines. His iconic text “I thought California would be different,” which first appeared in his 1989 serigraph by the same name, appears here across the arm of the L.A. RAYS style sunglasses. Putting Pettibon’s longing text on the arm of sunglasses–L.A.’s ubiquitous accessory–highlights the darker side of the California Dream.

Each color is limited to 100 examples.