Robert Pruitt
Robert Pruitt was born in Houston, Texas, in 1975. He received his BFA from Texas Southern University and an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin. Pruitt produces drawings, film, sculptures, and installations that draw on his dichotomous experiences working in the contemporary art world and living in the African American community. With stark wit and powerful juxtapositions, his work illuminates the construction of cultural identity and elements of shared experience.
Pruitt's work has been exhibited in the 2005 group exhibition Frequency at the Studio Museum in Harlem; in a solo exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston in 2006; and in the 2006 Whitney Biennial.
The Dissolve
A paradigm shift in contemporary art is rare and hard to recognize at its inception, but that is what curators Sarah Lewis and Daniel Belasco did in The Dissolve, SITE SANTA FE’s Eighth International Biennial. The curators presented a new sensibility in the art of our time, a mingling of up-to-the-minute technology and traditional visual arts (painting, drawing, and sculpture) with dance, music, and film. The fundamental form of this new work was animation, uniting the technological (the camera) with the handmade (drawing).
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