SUSAN KNIGHT: COLORED, HAND-CUT PAPER
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New York Artist Susan Knight
Current Lines
two layers of cut paper with acrylic paint
36" x40"
2008

New York Artist Susan Knight
Ouroboros
two layers of cut paper with acrylic paint and colored pencil, suspended in front of a stone wall
36" x 38 "
2008

New York Artist Susan Knight
Wave Swirl
cut paper with acrylic paint
36" x 46"
2008

SOLO EXHIBITIONS: (selected)
2008 Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, NE,
Fred Simon Gallery, Omaha, NE
2007 "Notation of Change", The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE
2004 Firehouse Gallery, Grants Pass, OR
2001 "Floating from Grace", Lied Center for the Arts, Creighton University, Omaha, NE
1999 Wayne State College, Wayne, NE
1998 "Pixieland", Wallace-Musket Gallery, Blue Star Arts Complex, San Antonio, TX

GROUP EXHIBITIONS: (selected)
2007 "Cutting Across Cultures: The Art of Papercutting, Then and Now",
Rye Arts Center, Rye, NY; "Nature Reframed", Peru State College, Peru, NE
2006 "Dream House on Rye", BemisUnderground, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
2005 ""On The Mark", The Main Gallery, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
"Foreign Exchange", Bad Dog Gallery, DeKalb, IL
2004 "Nature Trails", Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY
2003 "Contemporary Art Invitational", Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, NE
2002 "Ragdale 25th Anniversary Exhibition", Fine Arts Building Gallery, Chicago, IL; "Reactions", Exit Art, New York and Art Center College of Design; Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Pasadena, CA;
"20/20 Vision", The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE; "The Object of Metaphor",Nicolet College, Rhinelander, WI
2001 "World Trade Exorcisms", Gallery X, New York, NY
2000 "Snap Shot", Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD, and Acadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA, and Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT

AWARDS (selected)
International School of Art, Montecastello di Vibio, Italy, 1999; Nebraska Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship, 1998; Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, Illinois, 1997)

These cut paper drawings with red acrylic paint and colored pencil started with a researcher’s theory that Bythotrephes, the almost microscopic Spiny Tail Water Flea, may be destroying the food web of Lake Michigan.  As I abstracted and repeated the flea’s prominent tail, connecting and spiraling lines appeared to suggest nature’s cycles, webs and chaos.

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