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Art Museum of Southeast Texas (AMSET) announces This Rejection of the Conqueror. Works by Robert Pruitt

The Art Museum of Southeast Texas (AMSET) announces This Rejection of the Conqueror: Works by Robert Pruitt an exhibition on view January 21 through April 8, 2012, featuring large-scale figurative drawings, sculptures, and an instillation by the Houston native whose subject matter addresses timely political and cultural identity issues with an element of subtle humor.


Robert Pruitt, Steeped, 2011, conte and charcoal on hand dyed paper, 50 x 38 inches

Inspiration from comic book superheroes, hip-hop and urban street culture from his predominately African American Third Ward of Houston neighborhood all play into his artwork.

“The notion of black identity has been complicated and largely misunderstood,” Pruitt explains. “We control neither the construction, nor the distribution of our varied and multilayered stories of self. I am attempting to interrupt the existing narratives with my own.”
Currently a Texas Southern University professor, Pruitt received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Texas Southern University in 2000 and his Master of Fine Arts from the University of Texas at Austin in 2003.

This Rejection of the Conqueror: Works by Robert Pruitt is organized by AMSET and funded in part by Tracie and James Payne, the National Endowment for the Arts, The Links Inc. Golden Triangle Chapter, Carla and Josh Allen Sr., Carolyn “Linda” and Dr. Charles Foutz, C. Homer and Edith Fuller Chambers Charitable Foundation, Helen Caldwell Locke and Curtis Blakey Locke Charitable Foundation, Dorothy Anne Conn, the City of Beaumont and Texas Commission on the Arts.

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