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)
Reason to rebuild, 1986

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Reason to rebuild, 1986

Sale Date: May 14, 2008

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Compass, 1984

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Compass, 1984

Sale Date: May 5, 2008

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Nationalism, 1984

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Nationalism, 1984

Sale Date: May 5, 2008

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Untitled, 1998

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Untitled, 1998

Sale Date: April 1, 2008

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Counting to increase the comfort of one's..., 1990

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Counting to increase the comfort of one's..., 1990

Sale Date: November 16, 2007

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This amusement, beloved and despised,..., 1989

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This amusement, beloved and despised,..., 1989

Sale Date: November 19, 2007

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A decorated chronology of insistence and..., 1993

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A decorated chronology of insistence and..., 1993

Sale Date: October 16, 2007

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The sounds of belief, to an atheist, are..., 1988

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The sounds of belief, to an atheist, are..., 1988

Sale Date: May 16, 2007

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Untitled, 1996

Lari Pittman

Untitled, 1996

Sale Date: May 12, 2006

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All that glitters is gold (For Liberace), 2000

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All that glitters is gold (For Liberace), 2000

Sale Date: December 17, 2005

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Once inverted, now throw-away and exponential, 1996

Lari Pittman

Once inverted, now throw-away and exponential, 1996

Sale Date: November 10, 2005

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Untitled, 1998

Lari Pittman

Untitled, 1998

Sale Date: March 15, 2005

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Untitled, 2000–2000

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Untitled, 2000–2000

Sale Date: June 24, 2003

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Regenerative and needy, 1991–1991

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Regenerative and needy, 1991–1991

Sale Date: May 15, 2003

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Thankfully, you will have taught me..., 1999–1999

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Thankfully, you will have taught me..., 1999–1999

Sale Date: November 14, 2002

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Life, liberty and the pursuit of..., 1985–1985

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Life, liberty and the pursuit of..., 1985–1985

Sale Date: November 12, 2002

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The senseless cycles, tender and..., 1988–1988

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The senseless cycles, tender and..., 1988–1988

Sale Date: November 13, 2001

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All that glliters is gold, 2000–2000

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All that glliters is gold, 2000–2000

Sale Date: October 30, 2001

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All that glitters is gold

Lari Pittman

All that glitters is gold

Sale Date: January 27, 2001

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Mockingbirds, 1982–1982

Lari Pittman

Mockingbirds, 1982–1982

Sale Date: December 5, 2000

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Where suffering and redemption will..., 1988–1988

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Where suffering and redemption will..., 1988–1988

Sale Date: November 17, 2000

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This expedition, beloved and despised..., 1989–1989

Lari Pittman

This expedition, beloved and despised..., 1989–1989

Sale Date: May 17, 2000

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Nosferatu, 1982–1982

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Nosferatu, 1982–1982

Sale Date: November 18, 1999

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Nosferatu, 1982–1982

Lari Pittman

Nosferatu, 1982–1982

Sale Date: November 20, 1997

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