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6 unusual facts about Rob Pruitt


Rob Pruitt

During college, Pruitt lived at the Chelsea Hotel and says he focused his energy on partying rather than studying.

Pruitt and Jonathan Horowitz collaborated on an installation piece called Peacock Hill.

Pieces from this time dealt with his exclusion from the art world; his first sculpture at Gavin Brown’s enterprise was an Evian fountain, which, as Mia Fineman points out, is related to baptism and rebirth.

He currently resides in New York City with his partner Jonathan Horowitz, who is also an artist.

Pruitt has exhibited extensively in New York and internationally; in 2013 the Aspen Art Museum held his mid-career retrospective.

The show also included humanoid monsters made out of trash, collaged self-portraits, candy-filled stacks of painted tires, and photorealistic paintings of Cinnabon cinnamon rolls with geometrically piped paint for icing.



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