Rob Pruitt

Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York
Private Collection, New York

London, Massimo De Carlo, The Suicide Paintings, October - November 2013

This work is in excellent condition overall. There is some very light wear along the edges and at the corners of the work. Under raking light, there are a few scattered, unobtrusive pinpoint surface accretions. Unframed. This work was not examined under Ultraviolet light inspection.
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"In The Suicide Paintings, the colour combinations are more complex and there are no emoticons to tell us how we should feel. The absence of a story is made alarming by the scale and intensity of the encounter with colour on canvas...These hypnotic vistas, reminiscent of flatscreen TVs in both proportion and aggressively slick vacuity, are perhaps not visions of our possible suicides, but visions of our actual digitally mediated suicides...in a world where the pixel is king, pop culture has lost its punch. It is all very wry and very clever. Very Rob Pruitt."

Florence Waters, "Rob Pruitt: The Suicide Paintings," ArtReview, December 2013