May 14 - June 12, 2021
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From Prizer Arts & Letters:
“Stephen Pruitt is best known in the Austin performing arts community for his stellar work as a scenic and lighting designer. A Cartography of Solitude highlights another one of his light-based talents: photography. Pruitt writes, “For years, I’ve taken long adventures with just my camera and journal for company, and in those travels, I’ve experienced some stunning places that seem to revel in their remoteness, in their quiet, in their inhospitality, unless you’re willing to accept their terms – no easy meals, no water, no roads – stay only as long as you can be self-sufficient. The photographs and stories that make up this installation are both an exploration of those places – places that emphasize how small and ephemeral we are, how big the world is – and the many different ways that we experience solitude internally.”
This show is open by appointment from 12pm to 5pm Friday-Sunday. Additionally, the photographs will be illuminated every night from 8pm to 11pm and can be seen from outside the gallery on our viewing platforms.
About the artist: Stephen Pruitt has been working in the arts as a photographer, designer, writer, director and performer for over thirty years. Best known in Austin as a scenic and lighting designer for some of Austin’s most loved performing arts groups, he started out doing photography as a hobby (while studying engineering at the University of Cincinnati), but started transitioning to being a full-time artist when a small dance company approached him about doing their performance lighting after seeing his photographs.
Since moving to Austin in 1997, Stephen has worked as a freelance designer with numerous artists including Forklift Danceworks, Tapestry Dance Company, Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance, A’lante Flamenco, Andrea Ariel Dance Theatre, the Rude Mechs, Conspirare, Trouble Puppet and many others. As a photographer his work has been seen in group shows nationwide as well as magazines and travel brochures highlighting places as diverse as cemeteries in Croatia, carnivals in Latvia, former soviet statues and the Chernobyl exclusion zone in Russia and Ukraine, rainforests in Costa Rica, the 2017 eclipse in Oregon, Mayan ruins in Mexico, and of course, an innumerable number of US state and national parks. A Cartography of Solitude is his first solo exhibition in Austin.”
By Appointment Friday-Sunday from 12pm to 5pm; Nighttime Viewing every evening from 8pm to 11pm outside the gallery
2023 E Cesar Chavez St.
Austin, 78702 Texas
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