Lari Pittman
Lari Pittman (* 1952 in Glendale , California ) is an American painter. He lives and works in Los Angeles and San Miguel de Allende , Mexico.
Life
Lari Pittman attended the University of California, Los Angeles from 1970 to 1973 and graduated from the California Institute of the Arts , Valencia with an MFA in 1976 . Pittman has been Professor of Fine Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles since 1993.
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Lari Pittman's artistic training fell in the 1970s, when conceptual art took a pioneering role. Whereas his early works therefore consciously attempt to disrupt an idea of “pure painting” through collage and assemblage , these techniques disappeared in the mid-1980s - but the collage-like aspect remains.
Pittman's pictures have several layers and levels of meaning, they contain their own network of symbols . Every painting is such a complex construction of signs , a space in itself. The works are multi-layered and complex. In their narrative design they create their own systems and orders. Pittman brings lines, abstract forms and stylized representational objects together in multi-layered, palimpsest-like painting structures. The result is almost like an archaeological site in which the observer has the task of bringing to light what has been hidden over the centuries, layer by layer.
The artist's Latin American roots also play a role in the creation of the image. Pittman allows folkloric elements from flora and fauna , mythological figures, fetish objects and everyday objects from Latin America to flow into his compositions .
Exhibitions
Lari Pittman has had solo exhibitions in the following internationally renowned institutions: Villa Arson , Nice; Institute of Contemporary Arts , London; Center d'Art Contemporain, Geneva ; Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; Contemporary Arts Museum Houston ; Corcoran Gallery of Art , Washington, DC Pittman's work has been shown in countless group shows around the world, and he has had numerous exhibitions in galleries around the world. Pittman was awarded the J. Paul Getty Trust Fund for the Visual Arts Fellowship Grant 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
literature
- Lari Pittman, published by Skira Rizzoli, New York 2011
- Lari Pittman, c / o - Atle Gerhardsen, Gladstone Gallery, Regen Projects, New York 2008
- Lari Pittman, Exhibition catalog Villa Arson, Nice 2005
- Lari Pittman, Exhibition catalog, Cornerhouse, Manchester and Spacex 1998
- Lari Pittman Paintings 1992, Exhibition catalog Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna 1992
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pittman, Lari |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Glendale , California |