Rob Pruitt “American Quilts 2018”

Gavin Brown's Enterprise

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Gavin Brown’s presents American Quilts 2018, a new exhibition by artist Rob Pruitt.

For his eighth show at Gavin Brown’s enterprise, Rob Pruitt has produced a series of new works based on American quilt patterns. Utilizing a diverse range of materials and techniques, Pruitt expands upon the tradition of American Folk handicraft to create works that feel both modern and traditional. Thematically, the quilts speak to a culture in turmoil, roiled by a stark political divide within the US and a decline in democratic values across the globe.

In the late eighties, as half of the artist duo Pruitt-Early, Pruitt’s first public project was entitled Artwork for Teenage Boys. As the artist speaks of it today, “I was thinking about a culture and society that nurtured male dominance, misogyny and general bad behavior. We actively mined record shops, tobacconists and poster stores for mass-produced imagery that manifested this societal participation. It was amazing how much stuff we were able to purchase and archive to prove this thesis. At the risk of self professing our own prescience, we were creating a visual study of our today’s chauvinist culture. Fast forward almost thirty years and as a country we find ourselves being led by a president who is the worst conceivable manifestation of this.”

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Schedule

from September 16, 2018 to October 24, 2018

Opening Reception on 2018-09-16 from 16:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Rob Pruitt

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