Join us for a conversation between artist Knowledge Bennett and Jonathan T.D. Neil, Director of Sotheby’s Institute of Art – Los Angeles at The KNOW Contemporary, 422 S Alameda St, Los Angeles, CA 90013. It will take place on Saturday, June 22, 2019, 1:00 PM 3:00 PM. The conversation will be followed a limited edition release, a book launch and the opportunity to view the exhibition: Moment of Silence, curated by Art Business alumna Erika Hirugami, MAAB., Curatorial Director at The Know Contemporary and Founder & CEO at CuratorLove.
Knowledge Bennett collides minimalist and abstract aesthetic techniques with inquisitive concerns about healing, spirituality, and a conscious craving for the sublime. His current aesthetic practice has brought forth an introspective contemplation of life and death, that has expanded into the canvas surface. Bennett is seeking an almost restorative approach to cataloging thy self as a way to inventory that which is of true importance to the human experience via aesthetics. Influenced by various movements in art history, such as abstract expressionism, color field painting, minimalism, and pop art, Bennett’s artwork displays a meaningful and conceptual understanding. Until recently Bennett was immersed in modes of mechanical reproduction, by which he created artworks that pinned the contemporary sociological understanding of political and ideological tensions.
Jonathan T.D. Neil is head of Global Business Development for Sotheby’s Institute of Art and founding Director of Sotheby’s Institute of Art – Los Angeles, a partnership with Claremont Graduate University, the Getty Leadership Institute, the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management and CGU’s School of Arts and Humanities. He also serves as Associate Editor for ArtReview magazine. Jonathan has a Ph.D. in 20th-century Art History from Columbia University and a B.Arch from Cornell University. He has taught courses on modern and contemporary art and architectural history, the international art market, critical writing, critical theory, and the history of photography at Columbia University, Parsons The New School for Design, and the Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York. He is a member of the New York Chapter of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA).
Moment of Silence. Knowledge Bennett’s latest body of work marks an evolution from his deep interest in socio-political pop-art based subject matters. It gives way to an introspective yet conceptual concern marked by abstraction and minimalism; one that is deeply rooted in the collective consciousness and the infinite capabilities of thy self. Each artwork within this series provides a new perspective, an intimate moment of respite in which color is free from an object and becomes subject itself.
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