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BIO/STATEMENT
Education:
M.F.A. 1998 Painting American University
B.F.A. 1994 Painting Indiana University
Gallery Representation:
Elizabeth Moss Gallery, Falmouth, Maine
Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine
Courthouse Gallery, Ellsworth, Maine
Artist Residencies:
2003 - 2004 Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts
2002 Artist in Residence, Acadia National Park, Maine
2001 Carina Residency, Monhegan, Maine
1999 The Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, New York
1994 The Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont
Statement
In my studio, forms of clouds, stones, plants, rolls of hay, or bodies of both land and water are malleable and change to fit my compositions. However, the subjects and their environments that I create are always informed by my sense of the different places I have lived or spent time. A century plant I painted in New Mexico relates to a sow-thistle I see and paint in Maine. A tower of limestone blocks I painted in a quarry in Indiana relates to rock formations I saw and painted in New Mexico and to the shape of the rocky coast of Southern Maine. The name and identity of the forms change, but the scale and central placement of elemental subjects remains consistent in my work. Back in my studio I generate the space I experienced standing or painting with my easel planted in a large outdoor space with the ground sweeping up under my feet and clouds rushing overhead. I work to describe experiences I have had walking out into certain landscape spaces and being struck by a feeling of harmony in the forms surrounding me.
CONTACT
John Knight
29 Westminster Avenue
Portland, ME 04103
(207) 874 - 2314
ardenknight@hotmail.com
LINKS
my website
my blog
my email
gallery website
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