ROB PRUITT

Rob Pruitt is an American Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1964. He is working in the Post-Pop traditionsof the digital age. He is known for his embrace of commercial or foundimages and aesthetics, particularly as they touch his own life; it’shard not to see the quintessentially American culture at the heart ofhis work. Pruitt’s approach also incorporates elements or nods to minimalism, which quickly or deftly veer off course as intospaces of play, humor, or surprise. ‘Untitled (Woman with an Ermine)’ is a great example of the role of art history, irreverence and minimalism in Pruitt’s work. The painting is a simple gradient spectrum of earth tones like adark sunset, on top of which is a clumsily-rendered face eyes and amouth as if drawn hastily by a computer mouse from an outdated computerrendering app. In fact, the color palette of the work is derived from DaVinci’s famed ‘Woman with an Ermine,’ and Pruitt’s intervention evokes ideas about art and representation in the digital age.