01 Gallery
530 S Hewitt St #141
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Michael Knowlton, Image from Blackwater Babylon, Courtesy 01 Gallery
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Sep 13, 2008 – Oct 11, 2008
Tuesdays–Saturdays (noon–6pm)
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Painter Michael Knowlton doesn't feel the need to choose between beauty and terror. His passionately wrought, deftly composed scenes of the ruin and savagery of the Iraq War pit Western military might against indigenous culture. The infinite melancholy of the melee is underscored by the eerie stillness of the tableaux and the rich, almost classically styled movement of the paint itself. Knowlton's range is enormous; he deploys nuanced color fields, exuberant brushwork, and gestural depth in order to capture the near-abstractions of desert expanse and smoke billowing off oil rigs as well as the specific hues visible in an engine fire.
