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April 18, 2007
Throw Yo Hood Up!
by Kim Jakobsen To

"I have been educated by the contemporary art system, but my neighborhood, and most of its residents, are unaware of this world, and that world is unaware of it."

Robert Pruitt is an artist who work with founds objects, sculpture and drawing. His life-size hand-drawn portraits of friends in Houston, Texas, mixes Nikes, guns, afros and hoods with tribal tu-tus, robes and masks. The African tribal garments and urban street clothes expound on the black condition in America, and it looks pretty fabolous as well.

"I collect objects, quotes, and events from my stereotypically disenfranchised neighborhood, bring them back to my studio, and mix them up to make art."

Robert Pruitt, please come style my neigbourhood.

Clementine Gallery, New York (represeting!)