Rob Pruitt with Louise Bernard and Theaster Gates
@ Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Saturday, April 20th, from 1PM - 3PM
On January 20, 2009, artist Rob Pruitt painted a portrait of President Obama at his inauguration. A quick portrait emerged, a red and blue airbrushed base with white overlay, documenting a single moment of a historic presidency. Over the next eight years, Pruitt would repeat this act daily, pulling from imagery of the previous day’s events. The result – a monumental work of 2,922 individual paintings – chronicles an exceptional Presidency in real time, a visual archive shown for the first time in Chicago at the Stony Island Arts Bank.
To celebrate the opening weekend of this exhibtion, artist Rob Pruitt will be in conversation with artist and Rebuild Foundation founder Theaster Gates, and Louise Bernard, Director of the Obama Presidential Center Museum.
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