Lari Pittman

Lari Pittman ( b. 1952 in Glendale ) is an American painter. It lives and works in Los Angeles and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

Life

Lari Pittman attended from 1970 to 1973, the University of California, Los Angeles and includes 1976, the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia with an MFA from. Since 1993 Pittman is Professor of Fine Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Work

Lari Pittman's artistic training was in the 1970s when conceptual art occupied a leading position. Whereas his early work, therefore, consciously try to disrupt a performance of " pure painting " by collage and assemblage, these techniques disappear mid-1980s - the collagen gorgeous but remains intact.

Pittman's paintings have more layers and levels of meaning, they carry a separate power of symbols. Each painting is a complex construction of characters, a space for themselves. The works designed to be layered and nested. In their narrative design, they create their own systems and order. Pittman brings lines, abstract shapes and stylized representational objects together in complex, palimpsest-like paintings superstructures. The result is presented almost like an archaeological site in which the viewer has the task of bringing centuries hidden layer by layer to light.

The Latin American roots of the artist play a role in the pictorial composition. Pittman integrates folkloric elements of flora and fauna, mythological figures, fetish objects and everyday objects of Latin America into his compositions.

Exhibitions

Lari Pittman has had solo exhibitions in the following internationally renowned institutions: Villa Arson, Nice; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Pittman's works have been shown worldwide in numerous group exhibitions and he has had numerous exhibitions in galleries worldwide. Pittman was the J. Paul Getty Trust Fund for the Visual Arts Fellowship Grant awarded in painting as well as the NEA Fellowship Grants in Painting and the Skowhegan Medal for Painting.

Works in public collections

  • Akron Museum of Art, Akron
  • Eli Broad Family Foundation, Los Angeles
  • Carnegie Institute of Art, Pittsburgh
  • Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington
  • Chapman University, Orange
  • Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino
  • Goetz Collection, Munich
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Monterrey
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach
  • Peter Norton Family Foundation, Santa Monica
  • Phoenix Museum of Art, Phoenix
  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
  • Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln
  • Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
  • Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina
  • Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
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