KNOCK KNOCK GALLERY

Gallery closed for the season, thank you all so much for the great first run! We’ll pick back up in September. Hope to see you all then! And, as always, we are open to any and all proposals.

Opening Reception: May 24th 6-10pm.

CLICK HERE for documentation of Noah Furman and J.T. Rogstad’s Goodnight, Moon.

CLICK HERE to view a pdf version of the inaugural edition of the artist zine Spring Break that debuted as a part of the opening for Goodnight, Moon.

NFO EXPO

Knock Knock Gallery will have a booth at this year’s NFO EXPO!

Saturday April 19, 2008

NFO XPO OPENING

1pm @ Viaduct Theater • 3111 N. Western
Hours: 1pm to 3am • $8 ($10 for 2-day pass)
(entry fee covers all programming and daily bar-bq!)

The NFO XPO (pronounced “info expo”) brings art groups, community organizations and artists together to exchange information and ideas. We view it as a trade show for experimental art, emerging spaces, and radical exchange. It’s our version of what an art fair should be and it’s a big part of the festival and the Dark Matter that is Version. Come see emerging artists’ visual works, and participate in artist-run spaces and projects. Learn how to XYZ. Watch some great new videos, meet future historians of the counter public sphere, and party with us like its 2099.

Goodnight, Moon

Noah Furman and J.T. Rogstad

April 12 - 26

Opening Reception April 12 6-10 pm.

Goodnight, Moon is a two-person show featuring the work of two artists who studied together at Colorado College, later living and practicing in Chicago.

Noah Furman works in the vein of generative drawings based upon a vocabulary of culturally derived images and icons: “Totems, Golems, Pictures, Prayers, Dwellings, Graves, Mounds, Piles”. Stylistically molding them into forms and shapes, generally juxtaposed with a phrase, words or sentences, generated by the artist from the image. For Goodnight, Moon Noah will be constructing and installing found-object sculptures made with the same fundamental process as his images. In addition will be a large generative drawing made in and on the space itself. Part of the  show is  a  publication of drawings put together by a collegue Robert Snowden and the artist himself - they will be distributed in different locations around the city including in various newspaper dispensers. This is the first in a series of printed publications of various artists’ works, curated by Robert. He is eager to collaborate with other visual artists and put together further issues of this sort. The publication is meant to raise questions of authorship and act as a curated collection of drawings.

J.T. Rogstad pursues a predominately visceral mode of work, using a wide range of material. Incorporating appropriated imagery in a much different way than Furman, Rogstad utilizes the inherent mood of an object or image, film segment or color as the catalyst for content. In the artist’s own words, he is intrigued by “the (possibility of the) overlap of a stupidly overt/blatant kind of residue of violence with the seething or vaguely menacing vibration of the unrealized potential for violence, or harm, or mystery. For this relationship I’ve tried to give the one a plastic, decorative quality and exaggerate the repressed freneticism of the other. I personally imagine this confrontation as a primitive fable or a cinematic fairytale. At the very least, and as with most of my work, I hope that it would have appealed to me as a child.”

Check the “Artists” tab on the website to see examples of the artists’ work.

Hope to see you all there, refreshments will be provided and cook-outing will prelude the opening. Feel free to stop by!

-Harley

Have a look at the show currently up:

Seven Strong for Guessing,

John Henderson and Justin Swinburne 

John Henderson and Justin Swinburne,

Seven Strong For Guessing

Henderson and Swinburne’s collaborations tastefully engage ideas pertaining to the coding of meaning, mediated experience, the intoxicating influence of prior knowledge and an indefinite commitment to ambiguity’s concrete character.
“Seven Strong for Guessing” represents a culmination of an
intellectual and educational collaboration that has gone on for
several years between the two artists and is one of poignant
self-reflexivity and self-examination.

Have a look: