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City Beat of Long Beach features Sandow Birk

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Sandow Birk - Photo By John Gilhooley (City Beat Long Beach)

City Beat Long Beach Feature Story By Theo Douglas

“I wanted to live near the beach, but I didn’t really know where I wanted to live,” artist Sandow Birk says over sandwiches and a glass of Chardonnay at George’s Greek Café. “So I ended up in Long Beach.”

Of course, that’s more than faint praise.

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The hybrid art of Einar and Jamex de la Torre

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Einar and Jamex de la Torre (Photo by Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)

Los Angeles Times - The hybrid art of Einar and Jamex de la Torre
November 07, 2010|By Scarlet Cheng

The brothers' work is a Baroque mix of the high and the low, the sacred and the profane, Mexico and America. They're the focus of a retrospective at the Craft and Folk Art Museum.

High and low culture, the sacred and the profane, the esoteric and the pop collide in the works of Einar and Jamex de la Torre, brothers who have collaborated closely as artists for 20 years.

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Artist shows Barbie’s true colors in “Drown the Dolls”

Drown the Dolls: Daena Title at Koplin Del Rio

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"Smile", 2008, oil on canvas, 60" x 72"

By Patricia Ciaffa Peyser, Huffington Post
January 11, 2011

Barbie's slight but potent form carries five decades of heavy cultural associations on its diminutive shoulders. In her riveting new body of work Drown the Dolls, Daena Title mines that iconic ground for fresh and provocative meaning. Barbie's creator Ruth Handler once commented that she "designed Barbie with a blank face, so that the child could project her own dreams" onto the doll -- and Title's Barbies are captivating vehicles for the projection of her trenchant personal vision.

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Sandow Birk's "The Word of God: American Qur'an" opening at The Warhol Museum

Art review: Mineko Grimmer at Koplin Del Rio

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Mineko Grimmer's "The Dialogue."

By Leah Ollman, March 31, 2011 | Los Angeles Times
To anyone familiar with Mineko Grimmer’s work, her two new installations at Koplin Del Rio will come as no surprise. The L.A.-based artist hasn’t had a solo show locally since 1999, but the general form and premise of her work have remained consistent since the 1980s. In Grimmer’s case, more of the same is a good thing. A very good thing.

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Robert Schultz

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April 16 - May 28, 2011
Artists surname: 
Schultz Robert
"Luchador: Light", 2009, graphite on paper, 12 7/8 x 8 1/2 im., 20 7/8 x 16 1/2"

EDUCATION:
1981 MFA, University of Wisconsin,
Madison, WI
1976 BA, University of Wisconsin,
Madison, WI

www.schultzdrawings.com

Robert Schultz
"Luchador: Light", 2009, graphite on paper, 12 7/8 x 8 1/2 im., 20 7/8 x 16 1/2" fr.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2011 "New Drawings", Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Culver City CA
2009 Print Works Gallery, Chicago IL
2008 “New Drawings”, Koplin Del Rio Gallery Culver City, CA
“Robert Schultz”, Drawings 1990-2007, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison WI
2006 “New Drawings”, Printworks, Chicago, IL
2005 “New Drawings”, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2004 Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003 Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, WI

Additional Media: 
"Aphrodite 2", 2010, silverpoint on panel, 21"x18"
"Eros", 2010, silverpoint on panel, 21"x18"
"Counterpoise", 2011, graphite on paper, 23 1/2" x 29 1/2" fr.
"Luchador: Light", 2009, graphite on paper, 12 7/8 x 8 1/2 im., 20 7/8 x 16 1/2"
"Luchador: Shadow", 2009, graphite on paper, 12 7/8 x 8 1/2 im., 20 7/8 x 16 1/2
"Back Shadow", 2011, graphite on paper, 12 3/4 x 8 3/8" im., 21 1/4 x 16 3/8" fr
"Anders", 2011, graphite on paper, 13 1/4 x 8 3/4" im., 21 3/4 x 16 3/4" fr.
"Sphere", 2011, graphite on paper, 16 12 x 7 3/8" im., 25 x 15 3/8" fr.
"Across the Floor II", 2008, graphite on paper, 17" x 32" fr.
"Abyss", 2007, graphite on paper, 24" x 21" fr.
"Back-25", 2008, silverpoint on panel, 22 1/2" x 19 1/2" fr., SOLD
"Tattooed Back", 2008, silverpoint on panel, 22" x 19" fr., SOLD
 "Dresser II", 2008, graphite on paper, 23" x 28" fr.
"Dresser III", 2008, silverpoint on panel, 20 1/4" x 18 1/4" fr.
"Hallway", 2008, graphite on paper, 24" x 18 1/2" fr.
"Black Shawl" 2008, graphite on paper, 22 1/2" x 18" fr.
"Up From the Beach", 2008, graphite on paper, 12 1/4" x 14" fr.
"Across The Floor", 2004, graphite on paper, 15 5/8" x 29" fr.,SOLD
"Airplane", 2007, graphite on paper, 13 1/4" x 26 1/4" fr.
"Summit", 2007, graphite on paper, 34" x 21 3/4" fr.
“Guarded Space”, 2007, lithograph Ed. 37/50 18” x 15” unframed
"Insouciance", 2011, graphite on paper, 24 x 31" fr.,  SOLD
"Lucia", 2011, graphite on paper, 34" x 20 3/4" fr.,SOLD
"Coastline", 2011, graphite on paper, 18" x 16" fr.,SOLD
"Woven Rug", 2009, graphite on paper, 6 3/4 x 16 3/4" im., 14 3/4 x 24 3/4" fr.
"Three Graces" 2011, graphite on paper, 16.25"x13.25",SOLD
"Illustrated Man", 2011, graphite on paper, 17 1/4" x 17" fr.,SOLD
"Diver", 2011, graphite on paper, 8 1/8 x 4 x 1/4" im., 16 1/8 x 14 1/4" fr.

March 2011 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


Robert Schultz: New Drawings
April 16 – May 28, 2011
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 16, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Artist Remarks: 5:30 – 6:00 p.m.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Friday: 10:00am - 5:30pm, Saturday: 11:00am - 5:30pm
Public Contact: 310-836-9055

Koplin Del Rio Gallery is pleased to announce its seventh exhibition of new work by Wisconsin based artist, Robert Schultz. Solely a draftsman, the figure continues to be the main compositional focus for Schultz in this new group of drawings.

His father a gymnast and grandfather a circus acrobat, Robert Schultz’ interest in the physical form is surely tied to his ancestral lineage. An avid proponent of exercise and athleticism, Schultz keeps regular gym hours working around his daily studio schedule. His fascination with the body as an instrument is evident in his approach to the figure, often nude and clearly focused on muscle, tendon, arch and flex. To Schultz, the body in and of itself is a work of art; his drawings serve to expose that intrinsic beauty. Employing the same models over many years, Schultz has the opportunity to gain a deep understanding of their physicality. In an austere setting with minimal props, each drawing is homage to the human form, both in its imperfection and transcendence.

Known for his deliberate and exacting precision, Schultz pays painstaking attention to every composition detail, both overall and in the minutia of each fold of skin, hair, shadow, highlight and pattern. In Schultz’ most recent body of work, the artist pushes himself even further to explore the very fabric of the details themselves reaching a near abstract view of his subject - the figure falls away leaving a maze of texture, light and line to explore. The result is artwork that astonishes both for its technical skill and for the evocative narrative it presents, stripped down to its barest elements of emotion and line. Working from live models with whom the artist has established a deep connection, the compelling humanity of each subject is wholly on display and lies in contrast to Schultz’ quiet execution.

Robert Schultz received his B.A and M.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin. Schultz is included in several public collections including the Art Institute of Chicago and The Arkansas Art Center.

For further information or photos, please contact the gallery at (310) 836-9055

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'Vacuum' Triggers Emotional Response at Museum of Wisconsin Art

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"Vacuum #5", 2008, graphite on paper, 50" x 38"

By Peggy Sue Dunigan May 31,2011 | expressmilwaukeedotcom

Melissa Cooke's eight drawings on display at the Museum of Wisconsin Art (MWA) may send a shiver down the viewer's spine, but the exquisite graphite renderings also invite a closer look. Cooke juxtaposes technical elegance with terrifying images in the "Vacuum" series on display in MWA's One From Wisconsin gallery (through July 10).

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LA Times Art review: Robert Pruitt at Koplin Del Rio

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Robert Pruitt, "Dreaming Celestial."

By -- Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times | August 19, 2011 | 6:45 am

The figures in Robert Pruitt’s engrossing drawings at Koplin Del Rio are individuals that he knows, transformed through costumes and props into characters within a larger narrative of cultural, historical, ethnic self-realization. Pruitt folds a panoply of disparate ingredients into the mix — comic book graphics, hip-hop style, science fiction futurism, ‘60s-era black power activism, a romanticized vision of precolonial Africa — and delivers a jarring kind of symbolic realism, equal parts heat, humor and humanism.

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DJ Hall

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September 10 - October 14, 2011
Artists surname: 
Hall DJ
"Smell the Roses", 2010, oil on canvas, 40" x 32"

BORN:
1951 Los Angeles, CA

EDUCATION:
1973 University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; B.F.A. (magna cum laude)

AWARDS/HONORS:
"D.J. Hall Papers", Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
6th Annual Heritage Award, presented by the Santa Monica Heritage Museum, Santa Monica, CA for contributions to the cultural heritage of the Santa Monica Bay Community

DJ Hall
"Smell the Roses", 2010, oil on canvas, 40" x 32"

TEACHING
2011 Otis College, Los Angeles, CA; Principles of Design Instructor, Foundation Department
1999-2010 Otis College, Los Angeles, CA; Life Drawing Instructor, Foundation Department
1992-1993 UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; School of Fine Arts, Design Department; Visiting Lecturer
1987 California State University, Long Beach, CA; Visiting Artist
1983 California State University, Los Angeles, CA; Life Drawing Instructor
1980 California State University, Northridge, CA; Painting Instructor

Additional Media: 
"Back to School Study", 2010, oil on panel, 10" x 12"
"Lunchbox", 2010, oil on panel, 12" x 10"
"Back to School", 2010, oil on canvas, 70" x 65"
"Smell the Roses", 2010, oil on canvas, 40" x 32"
"Flower Street", 2010, oil on canvas, 40" x 32"
"Make a Wish", 2011, oil on canvas, 44" x 108"
"Little Girl Go", 2011, oil on canvas, 60" x 74"
"The Dueling Alices", 2011, oil on panel, 16" x 20"
"Self Portrait 8 Years and 56", 2008, graphite on paper, 33" x 25" fr.
"Securing the Homeland-1959", 2011, oil on canvas, 48" x 80"
"When Women Wore Gloves", 2011, graphite on paper, 25" x 27 1/2"
"Enchanted", 2005, oil on linen, 42 1/2" x 27 3/4", SOLD
"Look at Me", 2004, graphite on paper, 24" x 32" fr., SOLD
"Night Light", 2004, oil on paper, 28" x 23 1/4", SOLD
"Nocturne", 2004, oil on canvas, 76" x 47"
"Picture Perfect", 2003, oil on canvas, 32" x 72 1/2", SOLD
"Raspberry", 2005, oil on canvas, 67" x 79", SOLD
"Secrets", 2005, pencil on paper, 22 1/2" x 30", SOLD
"Sipping", 2003, oil on canvas, 47" x 70", SOLD
"Tammy in Love", 2005, oil on panel, 20" x 15", SOLD
"The Wave", 2005, oil on gessoed board, 20" x 15", SOLD
"I've Gotta Secret",2008,oil on canvas,55"x73",SOLD
"Now and Then", 2004, graphite on paper, 24" x 31" fr.
"Star-Gazing", 2004, colored pencel on paper, 6 1/4" x 8 1/2" image, 12" x 16" f
"Still #1", 2004, oil on paper, 20" x 15" SOLD
"Tini", 2005, colored pencil on paper, 12" x 9" SOLD
"Copasetic", 2005, colored pencil on paper, 12" x 9" SOLD
"Perfect" 2006 Jaquard Tapestry 85" x 62"
"Giggle" 2007 oil on linen 54 1/2" x 60",SOLD
“Sunnyside”, 2006, oil on paper, 19” x23” framed,SOLD
“It’s the Water, Negril, Jamaica”, 1991, colored pencil on paper, 37” x 29”frame
“Something Cool”, 2008, oil on board, 16" x 12" im., 18 1/4" x 14 1/4" fr.
“Palm Dive”, 1993, gouache on board, 21”x16” framed
“Stormy Weather”, 2008, graphite and conte on paper, 18” x29” framed
D.J. Hall, "Twinkle", 1986, oil on linen, 46" x 66"
"Conjurer", 2008, gicleé print, Ed. of 250, 21 1/2" x 33"
"Swing", 2008, gicleé print, Ed. of 250, 30" x 33"
"Tropicana I", 1976, color pencil on paper, 17 1/2" x 17"
"Wakiki", 1977, color pencil on paper, 17 1/2" x 17"
"Avalon Anniversary", 1974, color pencil on paper, 22" x 28 3/4" fr.
"Banana Daiquiri", 1976, oil on canvas, 39" x 54"
"Mouseketeer", 2010, oil on panel, 10" x 12",SOLD
“Cake Time”, 2008, graphite and mixed media on paper, 24” x18”,SOLD
“Pool Watch”, 2008, graphite and mixed media on paper, 24” x18” ,SOLD

August 2011 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

D.J. Hall: Kodak Moments, Portrait of a Los Angeles Artist in the 1950's
Exhibition Dates: September 10 – October 14, 2011
Reception for the Artist: Saturday, September 10, 6-8pm
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Friday: 10:00 am – 5:30 pm; Saturday: 11:00 am – 5:30 pm
Public Contact: 310-836-9055

Koplin Del Rio is pleased to present an exhibition of new works by Southern California artist D.J. Hall. This will be the gallery’s sixth solo show with Ms. Hall.

After a yearlong hiatus from painting following her 35-year retrospective at the Palm Springs Museum of Art in 2008, D.J. Hall re-emerged with a fresh perspective in her work and a significantly different approach to painting. The sun drenched Southern California backdrop remains central in her color saturated realist paintings, though with a gestural touch and a shift in subject matter. Still intrigued with narrative and social undercurrents, Hall has turned her attention to growing up in Southern California in the 1950’s. Such a mythic time in American history is reflected in the sunny, all too perfect post-war imagery. Our contemporary yearning for better days, a time of solidarity and community, can lead us to wish to embrace a more perfect yesterday, whether real or imagined is immaterial. Hall astutely re-creates that idealized era, calling attention to its cracked reality through ‘Kodak moments’ caught in time, such as a backyard poolside birthday party complete with a fancy butter cream frosted cake and crepe paper leis as seen in the large scale, two-scene painting titled Birthday Wish. It could be a scene from any ‘50’s TV show backyard party – Leave It To Beaver, Ozzy and Harriet – sunny, happy post-war perfection. Also, a new conceptual element has emerged through Hall’s incorporation of text and characters reminiscent of the early “Dick and Jane” children’s readers, which serves as another layer of thematic reinforcement. In a painting titled “Little Girl Go” a young girl is propelled across the picture plane in a retro-red pedal car, joined by more youngsters, one of whom bares a striking resemblance to the “Jane” of ‘Dick and Jane’ fiction. Under the image in classic font is written, “Look! Look and See! See Debra Jane in the little red car. See that little girl go!”. While Hall is clearly mining her own childhood memories, she is presenting them as highly recognizable Americana, the kind that has come to represent a moment in American history at the peak of prosperity – and a moment in high contrast to today’s reality.
D.J. Hall was born in Los Angeles, California. A third-generation Californian, she brings a unique perspective to her portrayals of California life. Since earning her BFA from USC in 1973, she has devoted herself to painting full-time ever since. Her work is in numerous public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has exhibited in group shows around the world, and has held solo shows in New York and Los Angeles almost every year since graduation from USC. She is currently teaching at Otis College of Art and Design. Kodak Moments, Portrait of a Los Angeles Artist in the 1950's is her sixth solo exhibition with Koplin Del Rio Gallery.

For further information or photos, please contact Ronald De Angelis at (310) 836-9055.

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The Beehive Interview: Shay Bredimus

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Shay Bredimus, "Sayagata", 2011, tattoo ink on drafting film, 60" x 40"

November 30, 2011 10:32 PM
By Donald Munro | fresnobeehive.com

I knew I wanted to write a piece about Shay Bredimus, who has a buzzworthy show continuing through Dec. 8 at the Fresno City College Art Space Gallery. (My story in Thursday's Life section features Bredimus as my lead ArtHop pick for the month.) But when it came to weaving the tale of an artist, there are so many tantalizing threads to his story that it was hard for me to know where to begin.

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LA Times Review of F. Scott Hess

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"Self-Portrait as a Masterpiece of Creation."

By Leah Ollman , Los Angeles Times | November 10, 2011 | 4:00 pm

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An American take on the Quran

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"American Qur'an: Sura 87 & 88", 2009, ink, acrylic & gouache on paper, 16" x 24"

Feb. 10, 2012 | Des Moines Register | Written by MICHAEL MORAIN

Los Angeles artist Sandow Birk has spent a good chunk of the last six years hand-writing an English translation of the Quran and illustrating it with scenes of modern American life.

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Art LTD reviews Sandow Birk

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“American Qur’an: Sura 55,” 2012 , Acrylic and mixed media on paper, 16" x 24"

May 2012 by SHANA NYS DAMBROT , Los Angeles

“New Suras” is the second installment of three in painter Sandow
Birk’s ambitious project, American Qur’an. Although a continuation of
the same body of work, in this middle part his comfort level with the
material and confidence in its rendering have noticeably increased.
Birk’s precisely rendered, filigree-bordered panels are more than
merely a modernized illustration of this major text, of which little is
really understood in the West, but neither is he attempting a serious

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Review: Michelle Muldrow's landscapes of consumerism

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"Experience in Landscape" 2011, casein and graphite on clay panel, 49 x 49”

By Holly Myers | May 31, 2012 | LA Times

Edmund Burke, the 18th century philosopher best known in an art context for his writings on the sublime, is not a name that generally comes to mind when thinking about Home Depot. Cleveland-based painter Michelle Muldrow draws a plausible connection, however, in her second solo show at Koplin Del Rio, transposing the tenets of western landscape painting — a tradition heavily influenced by Burke’s concept of the sublime as that aspect of nature that inspires terror and awe — to the banal terrain of the big-box store.

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Art Review of Josh Dorman and David Bailin at Koplin Del Rio

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"Little Babel", 2012, mixed media on panel, 18" x 17 3/4"

Los Angeles Times, Friday, July 20, 2012
“Try reading between lines”, by Leah Ollman

Side-by-side solo shows by Josh Dorman and David Bailin at Koplin Del Rio make terrific neighbors. The artists have nothing in common in terms of methods, materials or imagery, but both are storytellers at heart, using accessible and familiar
visual vocabularies toward evocative, metaphoric ends.

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I-5 Connects: Prographica at Koplin Del Rio - A Seattle Exchange

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Elizabeth Ockwell, "West Elevation Paris Opera 2", 2010, pencil, ink, watercolor on paper, 19.75" x 28"

I-5 Connects
Prographica at Koplin Del Rio: A Seattle Exchange
January 12 – February 9, 2013

Koplin Del Rio is pleased to introduce a gallery exchange program with Prographica in Seattle, WA. A fifteen year professional relationship between directors, Eleana Del Rio and Norman Lundin has resulted in a collaborative exhibition venture between their two galleries.

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Cheech Marin to host panel discussion for ARTIFEX show: "Artifex: Art Effects Beyond Identity": Weds. May 29, 7 - 8pm

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Cheech to Moderate Artifex Panel Discussion 5/29/13

Panel Discussion: Artifex: Art Effects Beyond Identity
Wednesday May 29, 7:00 – 8:00 pm
Panel Moderator: Cheech Marin, Entertainer & Chicano Art Advocate
Panelists: Susana Smith Bautista, PhD., Art Historian & Latino/Chicano Arts Expert
Artists: Einar & Jamex de la Torre, Harry Gamboa Jr., Shizu Saldamando and John Valadez
Please RSVP as seating is limited

Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Friday: 10:00 am – 5:30 pm; Saturday: 11:00 am – 5:30 pm
Public Contact: 310-836-9055

ARTIFEX- New Work by Einar and Jamex de la Torre, Harry Gamboa Jr., Shizu Saldamando and John Valadez

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Exhibtion: Kerry James Marshall @ The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

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"Tyla",2012, archival inkjet print, Ed. of 6, 31 x 23"

In the Tower: Kerry James Marshall
June 28 – December 07, 2013
East Building Tower
Exhibtion: Kerry James Marshall @ The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

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Robert Pruitt's Cosmic Cool 'Women' Come To The Studio Museum In Harlem

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"Dreaming Celestial", 2011, conte, charcoal & silver leaf on hand dyed paper, 50 x 38" unframed

The Huffington Post | By Priscilla Frank

Is it possible to be a shape-shifter while remaining strongly grounded at the same time? Robert Pruitt's crayon series, simply entitled "Women," shows such an existence is not just possible -- it is everywhere.

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