The title of the exhibition is a reference to the popular Mexican singer Juan Gabriel, who cleverly responded to a question about his sexuality with the phrase: "What is seen, is not asked." By inverting the statement, Pittman insists on questioning what we see and reflects his constant exploration of what is visible or not.
The exhibition presents new works by the artist that pay special attention to the visual and popular cultures of Latin America, which have been a significant and continuous point of reference in his work.
Lari Pittman is a Los Angeles-based Colombian-American artist with more than four decades at the forefront of painting in the United States. Her painted panels and works on paper function as densely layered narratives that articulate the controversy of bodies and the politics of gender, class, and race.
Figuration, abstraction, text, and patterns from a variety of genres coexist in fantastical landscapes that respond to the political and personal events of the time in which they occur.
