Special Duties
An Exhibition by John Knight
John Knight, Fragments, 2021. An insitu project organized by Final Hot Desert and exhibited at BSMNT Gallery, Leipzig, Germany,
2021, dimensions variable. Objects included: How many punks grow up to become cops? (Hoosegow punk club stage, Middletown, Ohio,
USA 2003), 2021, paint on birch plyboard with blue carpet and bondage belt; After October comes the period of November / When Lina E’s arrest became a ready-made
meal... (after-image of Baader, Raspe and Ensslin) 2021, plyboard, gesso, plants and soil; House of cards (a copy of an upscale restaurant entrance fitted for a gentrified neighborhood),
2021, found cardboard and tape; and, I wish regret would disappear with boredom, 2021, inkjet print and wheat paste.
From November 17th through December 15th, 2022, the Northcutt Steele Gallery is pleased to present Special Duties, an exhibition of works created by John Knight.
Special Duties is an installation of conceptual paintings, sculptures and found photographs that consider site, design and class.
John Knight is a Montana-based conceptual artist and independent curator. His work is often site-specific and concerned with the intersection of architecture, design, and class. Knight recently presented a solo project internationally in 2021 at BSMNT Gallery in Leipzig, Germany. In the United States, he has exhibited solo and two-person projects at: The Montana Artist Refuge Gallery in Basin, MT, GCADD in Granite City, Illinois (with Nicolo Gentile); Window Mine and the Holland Project in Reno, Nevada; Final Hot Desert in Salt Lake City, Utah; Private Places and Muscle Beach in Portland, Oregon; the American Institute of Thoughts and Feelings in Tucson, Arizona; and Julius Caesar in Chicago (with Matt Morris). Knight has initiated various artist-run spaces and curatorial projects including Williamson and Knight Gallery (with Iris Williamson), Cherry and Lucic (with Eleanor Ford and Kyle Raquipiso), and H. Klum Fine Art (with Lydia Rosenberg) in Portland; and THE PINK HOUSE (Jan. 19 1995) at Bad Reputation in Los Angeles, California. He was the 2021 Curator-in-Residence with Open AIR Residency in western, Montana.