Articles of ‘Lari Pittman’

Gladstone Gallery - New York
By Craig Drennen
Lari Pittman occupies a special place in the world of contemporary painting. His exhibitions in the mid-1990s had paintings so energized by their own amphetamine crackle that they looked ready to explode out of their frames. The patterns, pilgrims, books, words (”CUM”), numbers (”69″), credit cards, caution [...]

By David Pagel

Overripe is one step away from rotten. When mature fruits and fresh vegetables pass their primes, they begin to stink, their once firm flesh going mushy, their skins withering, and their sweet juices pooling in puddles that become breeding grounds for insects, both filthy and annoying, before drying up and [...]