Opening Reception: Saturday, April 26, 3 p.m.

August 1 - September 12, 2009

Location: Kwan Fong Gallery of Art and Culture — map

Opening Reception
Saturday August 1st, 6:00 p.m.
Kwan Fong Gallery of Art and Culture

Legendary Ventura County artist Bob Privitt is interested in the juxtaposition of disparate elements to create new meaning.

Intrigued by images and shapes which seem to have simple and obvious meanings, but upon further examination prove to have multiple and even contradictory meanings Privitt utilizes some of the conceptual methods of Dada and Surrealism while examining the psychological balance between that which is "reasonable" and that which is "irrational."

He does not consider himself a Dada or Surrealist artist, merely an observer of "the human condition" with its myths, dreams, future hopes, flights to freedom, and the balance between positive events and negative actions.

The artworks in this exhibition are the result of those observations.

About the artist

Bob Privitt’s works have been juried into over 100 national and regional exhibitions and received awards in over one-third of them. His drawings and sculptures are in many public collections, including those of University of Tulsa, Indiana University, Oklahoma Art Center, University of Arkansas Little Rock, and City of Thousand Oaks, CA. The artist is the recipient of many national, regional and private grants, including the Borchard Foundation, Woodland Hills, CA, as Scholar-in-Residence in Brittany, France, 1988–89. Privitt has been featured in several printed publications, including Sculpture: Technique, Form, Content by Art Williams (Davis Publications, Worcester, MA, 1988); and The California Art Review, edited by Les Krantz (American References, Inc., Chicago, IL, 1989). A former motorcycle racer, he also worked as a journeyman ironworker and welder and helped to build the west spillway of the Glen Canyon Dam in Page, AZ.

A detailed résumé can be seen at the Bob Privitt website at arachnid.pepperdine.edu/privitt