H.Pryor Art
Welcome to the place I show my latest works of art.
Monday, September 15, 2008
May art show at Outsider Inside Gallery
Baby People
A Movie Playing on My Eyelids
Huh?
The Bright Side of a Cataclysmic Breakdown in Evolution
Accordion of Consciousness
I'd Take Me to War
(close up)
Fragile Like Steel
(close up)
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Thursday, March 13, 2008
What's Love Got to Do With It? Yorktown, Virginia
I'll Take My Medication (acrylic, oil pen, and epoxy on cardboard lid assemblage)
We've all been there. This represents the crazy fights we endure for love and the desperate promises made to keep it together.
Narcissism (acrylic, oil pen, and epoxy on cardboard lid assemblage)
For this show I decided to play with the idea of love. Who wants to see a bunch of hearts and flowers anyway? Love is a loaded term and exploiting the light and dark side of it was way too tempting. So the one above is about self-absorption, a distorted kind of love. Narcissism.
I Just Wanna Talk (acrylic, oil pen, and epoxy on a cardboard lid assemblage)
These are pink elephants in overalls holding machine guns. Aren't they fun? They're psycho stalkers. Another distorted type of love.
Public Disclosure of Forbidden Love (acrylic, pencil, and epoxy on wooden assemblage)
I also wanted to show unlikely pairs hooking up. This is Godzilla who fell in love with the nemesis, Spectreman. If you look inside the lizard's belly you can see their love child in utero.
Cult Status: No One Understands My Love for You
(acrylic, pencil, and epoxy on wooden structure with 3 rubber doll heads)
The baby was born and now he's a legend. This is about his obsessive fans.
side view of Cult Status
You Had Me at "Nanu": Mork and Buck Rogers (acrylic, pencil, epoxy and old doll on wooden assemblage)
Another one about unlikely pairs hooking up. The text reads: Mork and Buck Rogers, their intergalactal attraction could no longer be denied...you do the math.
Close up of "the woman inside Buck Rogers"
Holy Matrimony
It's a wedding! Godzilla and Spectreman are making honest critters out of eachother.
Marching Band and Drumline
Don't know what this has to do with love, really.
I Love Robert: A Self Portrait (acrylic, pencil, epoxy, and celluloid doll on wood structure)
This is about me actually. Its a long story but when I was little I used to wish I was a little boy. So much that I would tell strangers my name was Robert. They believed me until they met my parents who refused to go along with my secret identity. So this piece is about loving the unconventional little Robert inside of me.
The view of God ( acrylic, pencil, epoxy, and wooden cut outs on old drawer)
Everyone is a baby deep down. At least that's what I tell myself when I'm really pissed at someone.
Monday, November 12, 2007
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Newbies for September 2007!!!
here's a close up!
Yoshiko: A Floating Existence (26.5"X 22")
And the close up...
The Queen Has Arrived (13.5" X 17")
Detailed View of the robot twins...
Kotik (11.5"X13")
close up of right hand corner...
Accordion of Society: The Ecstasy and Agony of Finding Yourself in Another
(24"X24")
close up...
Friday, December 22, 2006
Things go in their own directions.
Le Karousel (16"X14" wood assemblage, acrylic, pencil, epoxy topcoat) The text in Le Karousel reads: " I was ever so clearly convinced that in the tide of the moment, I had chosen a joyous but rather strange day to take a trip on the merry-go-round. Though not for the faint of heart, I highly recommend it". (I'm sure you can figure this one out.)
A Munchkin in the Hot Seat (15"X13" acrylic, pencil, on wood)
Like most children, me and my twin sister grew up with a Wizard of Oz obsession. At the age of 3, we would go around singing, "we're off to see the lizard, the wonderful lizard of Oz!" We actually thought that the movie was called the Lizard of Oz. So this piece is sort of based on that misconception and the text reads: "You haven't been representing the lollipop guild very well and the Lizard of Oz is Pissed!"
Thursday, November 16, 2006
Rollerblades Have Not Killed the Quad Star
Public Skate (side view of 12"x12" acrylic, pencil, on wood assemblage platform)
Public Skate (front view)