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

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

SPRUNG DOUBLE COILS, 2007 Oil on canvas 36 x 36 inches $3,500	DETAIL: SPRUNG DOUBLE 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	DETAIL: SPRUNG COIL QUARTET #4, 2007

2006 Exhibition
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BIPOLAR COILS, 2004
Oil on canvas, 96 x 72 inches
$10,000.



CONVOLUTED COIL I, 2003
Oil on canvas, 64 x 84 inches
$8,000.



CROSSING OVAL COILS I (square), 2004
Oil on canvas, 60 x 60 inches
$6,500.



WARPT COIL, 2004
Oil on canvas
62 x 64 inches
$6,500.

Additional Paintings


TRIPLECROSS, 1997
Oil on canvas
66 x 66 inches
$7,000.



SHAPESHIFTER 1, 1991
Acrylic on canvas
72 x 67 inches
$7,500.