Cleon Peterson x Obey Clothing

For Holiday 2013, Obey Clothing worked with Cleon Peterson for their artist series. In his anxiety-riddled world, violence is the status quo. His dystopian scenes evoke Thomas Hobbes’ description of life as war between individuals: “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. Deviance is simply the norm, and the displaced individual is forced to navigate this wicked world alone, finding hollow bits of pleasure and meaning in violence, sex, religion and drugs. Peterson describes his bedlam as “a gray world where law breakers and law enforcers are one in the same; a world where ethics have been abandoned in favor of personal entitlement.”

They’ll be offering a web exclusive print from one of his graphics.  It’s an 18″ x 18″ screen print on 320 gram coventry rag, edition of 125, and will be open for sale on Wednesday, Oct 9th @ 8am. Posters will be $50 each. Check out the print and the full collection here: http://www.obeyclothing.com/curated/cleon-peterson/