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By Rachel Hooper on December 29, 2012
There has been a lot of excitement about painting in Houston this year, with Aaron Parazette’s In Plain Sight at McClain Gallery and a big exhibition planned for the CAMH’s 65th anniversary. But what about good old drawing? Often more humble and imaginatively evocative than painting, there have been some outstanding drawings shown in Houston [...]
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By Carrie Marie Schneider on December 17, 2012
ZZzzzzzz by Nathaniel Donnett was the result of his one-week residency at Art League Houston as part of the group show/mini residency STACKS, curated by Robert Pruitt. On opening night for STACKS, the five participating artists—Phillip Pyle II, Nathaniel Donnett, Jamal Cyrus, M’kina Tapscott and Autumn Knight—were clad in gray hazmat suits while they inventoried, announced, axed [...]
Posted in Article, Review, Uncategorized | Tagged carl jung, nathaniel donnett, robert pruitt, st. elizabeth |
By Joshua Fischer on September 4, 2012
Two just-opened Galveston exhibitions are definitely worth the trip: Clint Willour’s exhibition of drawings by Robert Pruitt at the Galveston Arts center and a group exhibition of artists riffing on Galveston and the theme of mapping at the Galveston Artists Residency. Pruitt’s drawings are stoic and sensitive portraits of his friends where markers of SciFi, contemporary [...]
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By Bill Davenport on August 23, 2012
Houston’s CAMH is branching out into crowd funding: a new indiegogo campaign to raise $32,000 to bring glitter-panda painter Rob Pruitt’s shiny statue of Andy Warhol to Houston in September for a year-long visit. According to CAMH Director Bill Arning, who outlines the CAMH’s proposal in a three-minute promotional video,”once he gets here, I think [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged andy warhol, Bill Arning, Public Art Fund, rob pruitt, robert pruitt |
By Robert Boyd on February 5, 2012
W.E.B. Du Bois created the term “double consciousness” in 1897 to describe the way African Americans split themselves into two personas, one for each side of the color line. The persona that existed in the white world was subservient and informed by the images and stereotypes of racism. Du Bois saw this doubling as a [...]
Posted in Article, Review, Uncategorized | Tagged art, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, barkley hendricks, fanboy, geek culture, mundanes, nerd culture, oba, robert boyd, robert pruitt, star trek, w.e.b. du bois |
By Bill Davenport on November 22, 2011
The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded Houston arts org Voices Breaking Boundaries (VBB) a $20,000 grant to develop and produce their Living Room Art series of events that explore and juxtapose the joys, cultures and struggles between Houston, Texas and Karachi, Pakistan. In October and November, VBB completed its first production: Third Worlds: [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged Autumn Knight, nathaniel donnett, robert pruitt, sebha sarwar, voices breaking boundaries |