Artist: KRIS KNIGHT (bio)
Work: STRINGS
[ oil on canvas / 24 x 24 inches ]
Kris Knight is Canadian painter whose work examines performance in relation to the construction, portrayal and boundaries of sexual and asexual identities. Since graduating from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 2003, Knight's practice has concentrated on thematic figurative works that are often as attractive as they are disturbing.
His paintings allude to various expressions of duality, often dealing with opposing notions of hiding and fronting, ambiguity and androgyny, innocence and the erotic.
Knight's artwork involves the creation of imaginary and biographical character-based narratives that attempt to find a balance between the dichotomies of pretty and menace, myth and reality. A portrait painter foremost, the characters that Knight depicts are heavily influenced by grunge, vampires, zombies, fur trappers, forests, and a sincere love for winter.
