Sun August 21, 2022 - Sun February 12, 2023
by Alison Knowles: A Retrospective (1960–2022)
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Best known as a core member of Fluxus, the avant-garde art group founded in 1962, Alison Knowles has created groundbreaking experiments that have influenced contemporary art and artists for over fifty years. This is the first comprehensive exhibition of her work, spanning the entire breadth of her still-active career, from her intermedia works of the 1960s to participatory and relational art from the 2000s.
Knowles creates poetic works from her extended engagement with ordinary materials, found objects, and everyday life. In 1959, influenced by John Cage, she experimented with chance operations to determine a painting's composition and made silkscreen-on-canvas works predating those of Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol. She became known for her Fluxus event scores, including Make a Salad and Identical Lunch, which she has performed internationally since the early 1960s.
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Knowles creates poetic works from her extended engagement with ordinary materials, found objects, and everyday life. In 1959, influenced by John Cage, she experimented with chance operations to determine a painting's composition and made silkscreen-on-canvas works predating those of Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol. She became known for her Fluxus event scores, including Make a Salad and Identical Lunch, which she has performed internationally since the early 1960s.
Best known as a core member of Fluxus, the avant-garde art group founded in 1962, Alison Knowles has created groundbreaking experiments that have influenced contemporary art and artists for over fifty years. This is the first comprehensive exhibition of her work, spanning the entire breadth of her still-active career, from her intermedia works of the 1960s to participatory and relational art from the 2000s.
Knowles creates poetic works from her extended engagement with ordinary materials, found objects, and everyday life. In 1959, influenced by John Cage, she experimented with chance operations to determine a painting's composition and made silkscreen-on-canvas works predating those of Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol. She became known for her Fluxus event scores, including Make a Salad and Identical Lunch, which she has performed internationally since the early 1960s.
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Knowles creates poetic works from her extended engagement with ordinary materials, found objects, and everyday life. In 1959, influenced by John Cage, she experimented with chance operations to determine a painting's composition and made silkscreen-on-canvas works predating those of Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol. She became known for her Fluxus event scores, including Make a Salad and Identical Lunch, which she has performed internationally since the early 1960s.
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