ROB PRUITT – MASKS
2020-12-14Pruitt’s exhibition centres on a new painting series of faces, initially conceived as props for a dance performance that never was. The body of work began with the smaller canvases which are scaled to the human face and were to be held by the dancers as masks. Reimagining a project that began a decade ago of quick gestures over gradient fields, Pruitt continues his pursuit of depicting the complexities of personality and emotion through these simple means. With these new paintings, the facial gestures are cut into the canvas with a razor – destructive and creative at the same time, these gestures are married to an accumulation of gradients, patterns, and prints to create a character.
Opposite – Comedy, 2020
Exhibition runs through to January 22nd, 2021
Massimo De Carlo
Piazza Belgioioso 2
20121 Milan
Italy
