Clive Knights
About
Clive Knights is a collagist, printmaker and creator of festival structures. He is represented by the gallerist Laura Vincent in Portland, Oregon. Since 2021 he has had 3 solo shows of his collages and monotype prints in Portland, and solo shows at Sacripante Gallery in Rome, Italy (May 2023) and at the Muscarelle Museum of Art in Williamsburg, VA, (February thru May 2024). He has exhibited work in over 40 group shows in multiple US states and overseas, including England, Scotland, France, Spain, Poland, Belgium, Slovenia, Estonia, Norway, and Italy. In April 2022 he curated the international exhibition Corporeal Gestures in Portland that included over 100 collages by more than 100 artists from 22 countries. He designed and published the catalogue of all the work in this show. In June 2022 he published his first monograph covering work from the previous 3 years titled Gestures from a Body at Work: Unsuccessful Attempts at Grasping Eternity. He was the founding director of the School of Architecture at Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, and his work is influenced by a career in architectural education, by studies in the phenomenology of the human body, and by a fascination with the potential for innovations of meaning embodied in poetic works.
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Clive Knights
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Person
My professor at Cambridge University in the late 1980s, Dalibor Vesely. He introduced me to a philosophical appreciation of the cultural vale of collage.
Place
My purpose designed studio in Portland Oregon which I call 'corpus animus', inside which most of my work has been made over the past 15 years.
Object
Architecture.... I can't pinpoint a single building, but I am intrigued always by how architecture frames the settings of our lives and the possibilities it offers for new and profound human experiences.
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