Nicholas Knight is part of a group show at Eugene Binder in Marfa, Texas. It opens October 10, 2008.
- NICHOLAS KNIGHT: Depictured
- March 21 - April 19, 2008
- Opening Reception: March 21 (7-10PM)
- 65GRAND is pleased to present Nicholas Knight in his first solo show in Chicago. His discursive blend of image and language, color and grayscale, and 2-D and 3-D work takes the form of smart, tragicomic photo-sculptures, existential abstractions and in-situ sentence diagrams.
- Knight's series of Registers focuses on the color test patterns found on the bottom of commercial packaging, like Domino's Sugar box flaps. He scans the flaps, creating color prints, which unravel the work of the registers by producing faulty color replicas of them. Knight then collages the actual box flap onto the prints, concretely exposing the futility of this process. Reveling in the disconnect between representation of a thing and the thing itself, Knight's heady, mimetic work is tempered by witty playfulness, like the transformation of utilitarian sugar packaging into aesthetic eye candy. From there, the show caroms to antique picture frames, electrical outlets, grammatical wall drawing and Marcel Proust.
- Knight Holds a BFA in Fine Arts and a BA in History and Philosophy of Science from Indiana University. He has lived and worked in New York City since 1998. In 2007 he was Artist in Residence at the Domaine de Kerguehennec in Bignan, France. He has had solo exhibitions at Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco, California and Eugene Binder, Marfa, Texas. Knight will be present at the opening.
- The inaugural pair of 65GRAND issued archival pigment prints, in an edition of twenty, will be available at the opening.
