ROB PRUITT PATTERN AND DEGRADATION

ROB PRUITT PATTERN AND DEGRADATION
SEPTEMBER 11 – OCTOBER 23, 2010
Opening Reception: September 11, 6-8 PM
Gavin Brown’s enterprise
620 Greenwich Street New York, NY 10014
Maccarone
630 Greenwich Street New York, NY 10014

Rob Pruitt is the artist for our time, creating and living at a moment when the American experience is both preeminent and stagnant. Rather than feel defeated by the diminished cultural legacy left to us, Pruitt has embraced it. He loves the cynicism, bathes in the stupid, lies down with the empty, turns the other cheek, and asks for an autograph. He has no answers, so he offers a joyful moment of flat, ridiculous glitter. His love of life and seeming flippancy are forms of modern wisdom - a radical, smiling response to an intolerable situation and a giddy challenge to those who have given in.