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| Kris Knight "Tropaeolum" oil on canvas, 18x14" 2024 |
Art Basel Miami Beach with GAVLAK Gallery, Booth C3 December 4-8th, 2024. The fair is located at the Miami Beach Convention Center, 1901 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach, Florida. For more information, please contact GAVLAK.
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| Kris Knight Mullein Morning, oil on canvas, 48x36" 2023 |
Body & Spirit - Group Exhibition
portrait of an artist (pool with two figures): group exhibition
28 November - 20 December 2024
Luke Edward Hall | Rowley Haynes | Killion Huang | Steffen Kern | Morteza Khakshoor | Kris Knight | Igor Moritz | Kofi Perry | Adriel Visoto
Private View: Wednesday 27 November, 6-9pm
Cob Gallery 205 Royal College Street London NW1 0SG
Cob Gallery is proud to present Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures), a group exhibition of male artist’s that explores intimacy, identity, and relationships within the domestic sphere. The artists featured respectively across their practice engage with the human figure—sometimes present, sometimes absent—to activate interior spaces where themes of sexuality, queerness, solitude, and ritual might unfold. Central to the exhibition is the idea of the interior as a site for emotional and psychological expression, with each artist using it to examine aspects of male experience.
Titled after David Hockney’s iconic 1972 painting Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures), the exhibitionfurther references Hockney's Domestic Scene series, created between 1960 and 1970. This series examined intimacy, queerness, and domesticity, while underscoring Hockney’s ongoing exploration of self through portraiture and figurative painting.
For more information, please contact Cob Gallery.
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| Kris Knight "Rippling" oil on canvas, 18x14" 2024 |
Galerie Alain Gutharc is pleased to present When The Sun Hits, a solo show of new paintings by Canadian artist Kris Knight, October 12th - November 16th, 2024. Opening Reception is Saturday, October 12th, 6-8PM.
For his third exhibition with the gallery, Knight continues to construct scenes of glimpsed beauty, slow-burn longing and quiet in-between moments that define his queer experience. His sensitive portraits and figurative works portray his friends and acquaintances in solitary contemplation, longstanding relationships and mildly elegiac scenes of leisure and selfcare. He imbues his contemporary subject matter with historical art references and colour palettes in both natural and domestic settings.
When The Sun Hits is the second part of a body of work that references notions of Victorian wellness that the artist started during the pandemic lockdown – the first exhibition referenced European garden portraiture that was created during the height of Tuberculosis, the second part moves locations from the garden to the shore, referencing the medical fad of “sea cure”: the sun, air and sea trifecta that was promoted by 18th-century doctors as a “cure all” for all ailments. Knight’s subjects escape the noise and heaviness of contemporary life for the tranquility of the sea, finding ecstasy in quietness and the freedom in simplicity. However, the delicate calm of his paintings is often shadowed by a layer of introspective dread humming in the background of all of his work. With this series Knight presents an elegant, intimate world dominated by lyrical mood, desire and subtle melancholy.
For more information please contact Galerie Alain Gutharc at contact@alaingutharc.com
ECHOES OF PARADISE
CURATED BY ALEJANDRO JASSAN
Jane Lombard Gallery, New York
June 28th - August 16th, 2024
Opening Reception: Friday, June 28th, 6 - 8 PM
Manuela Benaim, Jean-Baptiste Bernadet, Kadar Brock, Deborah Brown, Henri Paul Broyard, Geoffrey Chadsey, Kyle Coniglio, Cynthia Daignault, TM Davy, Benjamin Edmiston, Hank Ehrenfried, Evan Halter, Matthew Hansel, Andrew Holmquist, Kris Knight, Karolina Maszkiewicz, Kristin McIver, Alicia Reyes McNamara, Azita Moradkhani, John T.D. Murphy, Dominic Musa, T.J. Dedeaux-Norris, Chase Palmer, Jan Rattia, Kathy Sirico, Eva Struble, Xiao Wang
Jane Lombard Gallery presents Echoes of Paradise, a group exhibition curated by Alejandro Jassan. Echoes of Paradise explores the multifaceted significance of the Garden of Eden through the lenses of nature, art history, cultural assimilation, gender identity, and forbidden pleasures.
Echoes of Paradise deconstructs the myth of the Garden of Eden, highlighting how its themes have permeated art and culture across generations and geographies. Throughout art history, the symbols and language of the paradise have been endlessly replicated and reinterpreted. Edenic symbols serve as a bridge between the past and present, revealing the dynamic interplay between historical and modern perspectives. Echoes of Paradise brings this dialogue to the forefront, showcasing how the Genesis narrative has been adapted to reflect varying cultural, social, and artistic milieus. Furthermore, the exhibition sheds light on cultural assimilation and power dynamics, all the while examining how the myth has been integrated and transformed within different societies.
Providing a rich tapestry of visual narratives that reflect humanity's enduring fascination with this primordial story, the exhibition is foregrounded in familiar Edenic emblems-- from representations of the archetypal figures of Adam and Eve to lush landscapes enveloped in flora and fauna. The exhibition also explores the concept of repetition, both symbolically and formally, as a means of illustrating how this myth has echoed through time, morphing across cultures and contexts, evolving yet retaining its core. Through recurring motifs and repetitive brushstrokes, the artists collectively signal the continuous adaptation of this narrative and its impact on collective memory and cultural identity.
Looking to the human body, queer narratives, and feminist viewpoints, Echoes of Paradise challenges traditional gender norms. Disrupting the patriarchal gaze, these works reimagine Eden from perspectives of intimacy, ones that particularly seek to upend stereotypical depictions of gender. Addressing gaps in traditional narratives, the works play with aspects of masculinity, fragility, and tenderness, creating space for alternative perspectives on the human experience as well as critically investigating what inclusivity means from a 21st century vantage point.
Echoes of Paradise invites viewers to reconsider their consumption of imagery, symbols, and narratives. The exhibition not only enriches our understanding of art history but also challenges conventional gender roles, encouraging inclusivity as the approach to storytelling. Together, the artists in this exhibition create a vivid portrayal of paradise as a multifaceted, interconnected, and emotionally resonant place, one that has expanded to include voices and experiences historically excluded from the dialogue.
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| Kris Knight "Get Together" oil on canvas, 48x36" 2023 |
Superhost - New Paintings by Kris Knight
February 10 - March 16, 2024 @ Spinello Projects, Miami
Opening: Saturday, February 10, 6 - 9 pm
Free & open to the public
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Spinello Projects is proud to present Superhost by Canadian artist, Kris Knight, debuting a series of figurative paintings inspired by the historical notion of urban exodus during an epidemic. These paintings present light-drenched emotional portals of the past and present, where mundane queer moments have impact without being sensationalized. This is Knight’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery.
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Superhost is Knight’s pandemic garden series, inspired by the similarities of Victorian wellness during the tuberculosis pandemic of the 18th and 19th centuries and the connective social patterns to that of COVID19. These paintings return to the idea of being alone in the sense of wholeness: alone as in “all one.” Knight’s characters retreat from the muchness of their urban worlds for the stillness of gardens, country homes and rural Airbnbs. He cites his contemporary characters in bucolic locations referencing historical Victorian and Belle Époque garden paintings and expands his pastel palette to include the vivid, acidic greens that were popular during this era.
For more information, please contact Spinello Projects.
Kris Knight would like to thank Canada Council For The Arts for their support with this series.
Press:
"Must-See Miami Art Exhibitions in February" - Miami New Times
"New and exciting in Miami’s art scene: 3 must-see exhibitions" - The Miami Hurricane
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| Green Glow, oil on canvas, 20x16" 2019 |
My Velvet Shadow May 11th - June 30th featuring the works of John Brooks, Anthony Goicolea and Kris Knight. Opening reception is Thursday May 11th, 6-8pm.
The exhibition “My Velvet Shadow” presents three Gen X painters— John Brooks, Anthony Goicolea, and Kris Knight—whose work exemplifies queer time and queer style. These artists came of age with the residual fear that sex, intimacy, and love could likely lead to death. Their work incorporates anachronistic coded language and cross-cultural signifiers. It neither takes on the mantle of radical sexuality as activism prominent in 1980s predecessors such as David Wojnarowicz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Peter Hujar, and Jack Smith; nor does it celebrate the unabashed sexual exuberance of many younger queer artists.
View the press release here.
For more information please contact CLAMP
"200 Trunks, 200 Visionaries: The Exhibition" an invitational exhibition of creative trunk designs created to celebrate Louis Vuitton's bicentennial birthday displayed in his historical home in Asniéres, December 9th - January 6th, 2022. *This exhibition will travel the world in 2022.
04.04.2022 - Marina Bay Sands Events Plaza, Singapore - more info here.
07.29.2022 - 09.06.2022 - Beverly Hills, California - more info here.
