Rob Pruitt
Tuesday, 23 September 2014
Rob Pruitt
Work from “Multiple Personalities” at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York.
“Over the past 25 years, artist Rob Pruitt has made a 16-foot long line of cocaine, giant googly-eyed monsters crafted from collapsed cardboard, and filled giant tyres with hundreds of Oreos. So the biggest surprise of his new show at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise – Multiple Personalities – is that it doesn’t feature anything remotely outlandish. Rob’s work is known for exploring consumerism, youth, and larger pop cultural themes through hilarious and thought provoking takes on American life. Multiple Personalities, however, is about what goes on in Rob’s own head, a slightly quieter place. The show features a series of “Suicide Paintings”, large scale gradients that look like Mark Rothko designed Apple startup screens, and works based on the automatic, stream-of-consciousness drawings Rob produced during visits to his therapist.” – i-D/Vice