Robert Pruitt, Diasporic Leaps and Bounds, 2012, mixed media on hand dyed paper , 59" x 49". Image via KoplinDelRio.com. |
July 18 – October 27, 2013
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Robert Pruitt (b. 1975) is Houston-based artist well
known for drawings, videos and installations dedicated to examination of the
historical and contemporary experiences of African Americans. Robert Pruitt: Women includes nearly
twenty large-scale conté drawings of black women. Combining elements of science
fiction, hip-hop culture and comic-book graphics, each figure is at once
politically charged, physically grounded and fantastic—a blend of willful
self-determination and culturally conditioned myth.
Robert
Pruitt received his BFA from Texas Southern University and MFA from the
University of Texas at Austin. In addition to his solo work, Pruitt is a
founding member of the artist collective Otabenga Jones & Associates. He
has exhibited his work at venues including the Fabric Workshop and Museum,
Philadelphia; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Dallas Museum of Art and
The Studio Museum in Harlem, and he was a participating artist in the 2006
Whitney Biennial and SITE Santa Fe 2010. Pruitt received the Artadia Artist
Award in 2004 and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation award in 2008.
Robert Pruitt: Women is organized by Naima
J. Keith, Assistant Curator.
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