About Rob Pruitt

  • Biography

    The following is from the New York Times, June 17, 2001:

    Rob Pruitt: Back in the Arms of the Art World
    By MIA FINEMAN

    ROB PRUITT just wants people to like him again. A rising star in the early 1990's, Mr. Pruitt was on everybody's A list until a politically controversial exhibition brought his career to a halt. Now, nearly a decade later, his appealing blend of pop art and light-hearted conceptualism is winning back hearts in the art world.

    Mr. Pruitt, who is 36, is tall and lanky and usually has a few days' worth of dark stubble on his chin. He is soft-spoken and sincere, though there is also a hint of sly, Warholesque deadpan in his manner. A native of Washington, he now works in ...

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