ASTRAL AND PRISMATIC FIELDS
Exhibition: April 3 - May 10, 2008 Opening: April 3, 6 - 8 p.m. "Saturday after" artist talk: April 6, 12:00
ENFOLDING FIELDS Exhibition: September 2 - October 4
Opening: September 4, 6 - 9 p.m.
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Oil Paintings
installation view 1
installation view 2
installation view 3
BLACK/WHITE TETRA COIL, 2000
Oil on canvas
78 x 120 inches
$13,000
BLUE/WHITE STAR COIL, 2002
Oil on canvas
30 x 144 inches
$7,000
CROSSING OVAL COILS VII, 2007
Oil on canvas
48 x 48 inches
$5,000
CROSSING OVAL COILS VIII, 2007
Oil on canvas
48 x 48 inches
$5,000
CROSSING OVAL COILS IX, 2007
Oil on canvas
60 x 60 inches
$6,500
DETAIL: CROSSING OVAL COILS IX, 2007
CROSSING OVAL COILS X, 2008
Oil on canvas
36 x 36 inches
$3,500
DETAIL: CROSSING OVAL COILS X, 2008
I should say something about the painterliness of the paintings, which people express surprise over when they see them in the flesh for the first time. (I think most people expect geometric abstraction to be flat and graphic.) The undiluted, impasto, conspicuously brushed paint becomes almost mosaic-like where I nudge it into the tiniest shapes. I want every shape (large or small, positive or negative) to have equal physicality, equal presence on the surface. I don't like holes (or unmapped spaces) or things hiding behind other things. James Turrell said in a talk in Portland last month that he wanted, in Roden Crater and in his oculus chambers, to frame the sky and to bring it within touching distance. I'm aiming for a similar presence, and while that might not seem to be a particularly ambitious (or difficult) goal in painting, since they are inherently framed and flat, I've actually experienced that intense sensation of complete fullness and physicality in few paintings I've seen over the years.
—Michael Knutson
DOUBLE SPRUNG COILS, 2007
Oil on canvas
36 x 36 inches
$3,500
DETAIL: DOUBLE SPRUNG COILS, 2007
SPRUNG COIL QUARTET #1, 2007
Oil on canvas
48 x 48 inches
$5,000
DETAIL: SPRUNG COIL QUARTET #1, 2007
SPRUNG COIL QUARTET #2, 2007
Oil on canvas
48 x 48 inches
$5,000
DETAIL: SPRUNG COIL QUARTET #2, 2007
SPRUNG COIL QUARTET #3, 2007
Oil on canvas
48 x 48 inches
$5,000
DETAIL: SPRUNG COIL QUARTET #3, 2007
SPRUNG COIL QUARTET #4, 2007
Oil on canvas
48 x 48 inches
$5,000
