Lari Pittman

(American, born 1952)

Lari Pittman is a contemporary American artist best known for his collage-like paintings and prints which integrate multiple pictorial languages into a single work. Melding advertisements, gestural abstraction, Surrealism, Victorian silhouettes, and Folk art, the artist revels in dichotomies of ugliness and beauty, chaos and calm. Like the artist Philip Taafe, Pittman takes on grandiose ideas of death, transcendence, and semiotics in a way both light hearted and profound. “I want to offer a painting that somehow the viewer has to stand in front of it and almost not believe it,” he said of his work. “But in the act of not believing it, what they’re actually seeing, they get swept away in it.” Born in 1952 in Los Angeles, CA, Pittman received both his BFA and MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia. He has gone on to be included in four Whitney Biennials and has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions in the United States and abroad. Pittman continues to live and work in Los Angeles, CA with his partner Roy Dowell. Today, his works are in the collections of the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Stedlijk Museum in Amsterdam, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others.

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The Piece That Started It All: Top Collectors Reveal Their First Acquisitions

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7 Questions for Lari Pittman on Painting Imaginary, Fantastical Cities and Finding Artistic Inspiration Driving Through Los Angeles

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Artist Lari Pittman Among New MOCA LA Trustees

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Lari Pittman Artworks

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Lari Pittman (174 results)
Caesarean, 1982

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Caesarean, 1982

Sale Date: October 25, 2017

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Untitled #15, 1986–1987

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Untitled #15, 1986–1987

Sale Date: October 22, 2017

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Optimal setting for atmospheric conditions..., 2001

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Optimal setting for atmospheric conditions..., 2001

Sale Date: September 26, 2017

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Untitled, 2002

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Untitled, 2002

Sale Date: September 26, 2017

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Untitled #3, 2003

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Untitled #3, 2003

Sale Date: October 7, 2017

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Untitled #41 (A Decorated Chronology of..., 1994

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Untitled #41 (A Decorated Chronology of..., 1994

Sale Date: May 18, 2017

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Untitled #29 (A Decorated Chronology of..., 1993

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Untitled #29 (A Decorated Chronology of..., 1993

Sale Date: February 28, 2017

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This Landscape, Beloved and Despised,..., 1989

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This Landscape, Beloved and Despised,..., 1989

Sale Date: November 20, 2016

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Untitled#1, 2004

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Untitled#1, 2004

Sale Date: October 7, 2016

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Optimal setting for atmospheric conditions..., 2001

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Optimal setting for atmospheric conditions..., 2001

Sale Date: September 28, 2016

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UNTITLED #32 (A DECORATED CHRONOLOGY OF..., 1994

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UNTITLED #32 (A DECORATED CHRONOLOGY OF..., 1994

Sale Date: September 29, 2016

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UNTITLED #40 (A DECORATED CHRONOLOGY OF..., 1994

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UNTITLED #40 (A DECORATED CHRONOLOGY OF..., 1994

Sale Date: September 29, 2016

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TRANSUBSTANTIAL AND NEEDY, 1991

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TRANSUBSTANTIAL AND NEEDY, 1991

Sale Date: September 29, 2016

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A DECORATED CHRONOLOGY OF INSISTENCE &..., 1993

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A DECORATED CHRONOLOGY OF INSISTENCE &..., 1993

Sale Date: March 3, 2016

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THE SCENT OF A FLOWER, FOR A MOMENT, MAKES..., 1988

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THE SCENT OF A FLOWER, FOR A MOMENT, MAKES..., 1988

Sale Date: March 3, 2016

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ENNOBLED AND NEEDY, 1992

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ENNOBLED AND NEEDY, 1992

Sale Date: March 3, 2016

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Untitled #19, 2003

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Untitled #19, 2003

Sale Date: October 14, 2015

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Untitled #1, 2004

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Untitled #1, 2004

Sale Date: October 14, 2015

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Untitled #1 (Living Room), 2005

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Untitled #1 (Living Room), 2005

Sale Date: October 14, 2015

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UNTITLED, 1989

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UNTITLED, 1989

Sale Date: October 10, 2015

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Lari Pittman (B. 1952), 1997

Lari Pittman

Lari Pittman (B. 1952), 1997

Sale Date: July 22, 2015

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This Landscape, Beloved and Despised,..., 1989

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This Landscape, Beloved and Despised,..., 1989

Sale Date: May 17, 2015

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A transcendent mutability produced by..., 2012

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A transcendent mutability produced by..., 2012

Sale Date: May 13, 2015

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Untitled #1 (Like you), 1995–1996

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Untitled #1 (Like you), 1995–1996

Sale Date: March 10, 2015

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