In September, as Solange Knowles launched her chart-topping album A Seat at the Table, she took time out to give credit to a few of her key influences. In an interview with the music blog Stereogum, the sister of megastar Beyoncé listed, among other inspirations, a song by the R&B crooner D’Angelo, a book by the poet Claudia Rankine, and the art of her fellow Houstonian Robert Pruitt. “The way that he’s able to create these characters, to provoke the regality and the Afro-future aesthetic and synergy, that was something that I wanted to achieve throughout the duration of this album,” Knowles said of Pruitt’s work.Pruitt is flattered by the shout-out. Though he’s received his share of acclaim—he appeared in the 2006 “Whitney Biennial,” in…
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