(Art) Basel Diary #8

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My project for Unlimited is a set of small-scale, gradient Color Field paintings with a rapid sketch of a face overlaid on them. These are miniature versions of larger scale paintings that I have been making over the past three years. I was thinking of a couple of different things when I started making these. When I was a kid, my father, a really loving man and a great father, tried to get me to play sports with him in the backyard. And I did that, but it wasn’t really what I wanted to do. What I really wanted was to be taken to the art museums. We lived just outside of Washington, DC, and my father, having no idea what art even was, would take me to the museums at the very early age of eight or nine. I would stand in front of Mark Rothko paintings and just be over the moon about them. He would make jokes like: ‘Wouldn’t this be a little better if the artist had drawn a face over it?’ Then he would gesture with his hands, with an invisible Magic Marker: two eyes and mouth. I guess all these years later I still associate that with love and attention. ROB PRUIT about his work Not Yet Titled (2013),

presented at Art Unlimited by Gavin Brown’s enterprise, ny
seen at Art Unlimited, on Tuesday, June 11, 2013
image © wfw




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